Year of the dragon 2024 dates

Dragon
"Dragon" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters Nội dung chính Show Years and the Five Elements[edit] Compatibility[edit] Basic astrology elements[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] What type of Dragon is 2024? What is the Chinese Year for 2024? What animal will be 2024? What year is lucky for Dragon?
Traditional Chinese	龍
Simplified Chinese	龙
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin lóng Wade–Giles lung2 IPA [lʊ̌ŋ] Hakka Romanization liùng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization lùhng Jyutping lung4 IPA [lȍŋ] Southern Min Hokkien POJ lêng Old Chinese Baxter (1992) *C-rjong Baxter–Sagart (2014) *mə-roŋ

Zodiac dragon, showing the lóng (龍) character for dragon

The Dragon, also known as Loong, (simplified Chinese: 龙; traditional Chinese: 龍) is the fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Dragon is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 辰, pronounced chen.

It has been proposed by one academic researcher that the Earthly Branch character may have been associated with scorpions; it may have symbolized the star Antares.[1] In the Buddhist calendar used in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, the Dragon is replaced by the nāga.[2] In the Gurung zodiac, the Dragon is replaced by the eagle.[3] In Old Turkic calendar it is replaced by the fish or crocodile. Early Persian translations of the medieval period change to dragon to a sea serpent although in current times is generally refer to as whale.[4][5]

During the Cultural Revolution, giant panda was situated in the place of the dragon although this didn't last long.[6]

Years and the Five Elements[edit]

People born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "Year of the Dragon", while bearing the following elemental sign:

There are typically marked spikes in the birth rates of countries that use the Chinese zodiac or places with substantial Overseas Chinese populations during the year of the Dragon, because such "Dragon babies" are considered to be lucky and have desirable characteristics that supposedly lead to better life outcomes.[7][8] The relatively recent phenomenon of planning a child's birth in the Dragon year has led to hospital undercapacity issues and even an uptick in infant mortality rates toward the end of these years due to strained neonatal resources.

Compatibility[edit]

Cycle: (Trine Group) Dragon needs Monkey, Monkey needs Rat, Rat needs Dragon, (Opposite Sign) his rivalry needs to oppose the Dog.

Basic astrology elements[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ Richard S. Cook (Spring 1997) [Fall 1995]. "The Etymology of Chinese Chen". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. University of California, Berkeley. 18 (2): 250. ISSN 0731-3500. LCCN 82-640813. OCLC 4790670.
2. ^ "Year of the Dragon – Naga – Thai Zodiac". Thai Guide to Thailand. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
3. ^ "Tamu (Gurung) Losar Festival". ECS Nepal. 11 July 2010. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
4. ^ Rasulid Hexaglot. P. B. Golden, ed., The King's Dictionary: The Rasūlid Hexaglot – Fourteenth Century Vocabularies in Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Greek, Armenian and Mongol, tr. T. Halasi- Kun, P. B. Golden, L. Ligeti, and E. Schütz, HO VIII/4, Leiden, 2000.
5. ^ Jan Gyllenbok, Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures, Volume 1, 2018, p. 244.
6. ^ R＆S, 2005 December 30th, 十三番目の干支はパンダだった！？, Excite News, Excite (Japanese)
7. ^ Goodkind, Daniel (1991). "Creating new traditions in modern Chinese populations: Aiming for birth in the Year of the Dragon". Population and Development Review. 17: 663–686. doi:10.2307/1973601.
8. ^ Goodkind, Daniel (1996). "Chinese lunar birth timing in Singapore: New concerns for child quality amidst multicultural modernity". Journal of Marriage and the Family. 58: 784–795. doi:10.2307/353736.

External links[edit]

• Media related to Dragon (zodiac) at Wikimedia Commons

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