Why is there a virtual age? What does it mean to be a virtual year?

The real age of a person is calculated from the day of birth, and the whole process of human growth should be calculated from the day when the sperm cell and the egg cell are combined, which is what we call the tenth month of pregnancy. That is to say, when we are born, we are actually about a year old in our mother's womb, so our virtual age is one year longer than our real age. International practice uses age to calculate age, and the legal age is also used to calculate age, but Chinese are used to use imaginary years to calculate age.

The imaginary age of the Chinese is indeed scientific, after all, the generation of life itself is real! Before birth, when you are in your mother's womb, it should also be counted as the beginning of life! However, the saying of the first year is more in line with the development of society, after all, only when you are born in the world is you really breathing the natural air yourself, truly becoming a human form, and truly having human consciousness.

Only when you have ideology in your brain, will you feel real joy, anger and sorrow, and you are a real human being, so the statement of the first year of age actually has a certain scientific basis. It's just that the virtual age pays more attention to the basis of biological science, and the first year is based on the formation of ideology! From the perspective of the development of human society, taking the first year as the legal age is more suitable for the development direction of human society.

The virtual year and the calendar have come to the first day of the first month and are one year older, which means how many years you have lived, which is equivalent to seeing several milestones on the road of life.

"Imaginary age" refers to the traditional Chinese way of calculating age, also known as "lunar year", which refers to the age of a person calculated according to the number of years in the lunar calendar. The corresponding to the imaginary age is the "year of age", which refers to the age of a person calculated according to the number of years in the solar calendar.

In traditional Chinese culture, the lunar calendar is a calendar based on the cycle of the moon, and the beginning and end times of each year are different from the solar calendar. Therefore, when using the calculation method of imaginary years, a person's age changes with the change of the lunar year, regardless of the solar year.

The concept of "imaginary year" originates from the concept of the year in traditional Chinese culture, and is usually used to calculate a person's zodiac age, lunar birthday, birthday, etc.

2. Usage Scenario:

1. Calculate the age of the zodiac:

In traditional Chinese culture, people often calculate their age based on the year of the zodiac. For example, 2022 is the "Year of the Rat" in the Chinese lunar calendar, so people born in 2008 and later will enter the first zodiac age (i.e., 14 years old) in 2022, in which case their imaginary age and solar age are not the same.

2. Calculate the lunar birthday:

When Chinese celebrate birthdays, they usually use lunar dates to indicate them. For example, if a person's birthday falls on the first day of the fourth lunar month every year, then his lunar birthday will change in the solar calendar. If he was born in 1990, on the first day of the fourth lunar month in 2023, his imaginary age will become 34 years old.

3. Ancestor worship and major festivals:

In traditional Chinese culture, ancestor worship and major festivals are usually calculated according to the lunar calendar. For example, festivals such as the Spring Festival and Qingming Festival are calculated according to the lunar dates, and the dates of these festivals usually change with the change of the Yinhuai search in the solar calendar year, so it is more common to use the method of imaginary years when calculating ancestor worship and major festivals.

1. The imaginary age is calculated according to the calendar years experienced after birth, that is, it is 1 year old when born, and 1 year is added for each new year after birth. For example, a baby born at the end of December is counted as 1 year old after birth, and 1 year old after January 1 of the Gregorian calendar or the local Chinese New Year. In this way, the baby is only a few days old, and it is already 2 years old.

2. Before the virtual year and after the birthday, the virtual year is 2006-1981 + 1 = 26 years old.

It is not the same before and after the first birthday. For example, if your birthday is 2006-1981 = 25 years old, it is 24 years old.

Both the first year and the imaginary age are used to calculate age, and the differences between them are as follows:

1. The definitions are different.

There are two definitions of age attainment, which refers to the age of one year or older and the age of attainment.

There is only one definition of virtual age, which refers to virtual age, which is the traditional Chinese way of counting age.

2. The scope of application is different.

The age of age is an internationally accepted method of calculating age, which is used all over the world.

Imaginary age is a traditional Chinese way of counting age, which is only used in China and other countries in eastern Asia.

3. Different ways of counting age.

The first birthday is counted from the age of zero, and the birthday is one year old, calculated according to the year, month and day of the Gregorian calendar, and counted from the second day of the first birthday.

The virtual age is recorded as one year old from the time of birth, and the age is increased by one year every Spring Festival (the ancient meaning is the current beginning of spring).

4. Follow a different calendar.

The first year follows the foreign calendar (Gregorian calendar).

The virtual year follows the lunar calendar (lunisolar calendar).

In fact, this originated from the respect of the folk for the dead, as the saying goes, the dead man's lantern is three years older, so the virtual age is generally for the dead.

The virtual age is the day is one year old, the earth is one year old, and the person is one year old.

Imaginary years and years old are two concepts, and the imaginary year is the number of years that have passed through the lunar calendar. As the saying goes, one night is two years old, and five watches are divided into two years. It means that the 30th lunar month and the first Chinese New Year's Eve of the first lunar month are only one day apart, that is, two years, the first day is the Year of the Monkey, the second day is the Year of the Rooster, if it is a baby born in the thirtieth month of the lunar calendar, according to the lunar calendar, the first baby is two years old, in fact, the actual age is only one day.

Therefore, the first year is the real age of people.

The imaginary year marks the year you were born as 1, and the year old marks the year of birth as 0.

Imaginary age refers to counting your age from the time your mother is pregnant, not from your birth.

Virtual years [xū suì] meaning: add one year old to each Lunar New Year, a method of calculating age, and the child is counted as one year old when he is born, which is generally one to two years longer than the actual age.

First, the basic definition of virtual years:

One year old is added to each Lunar New Year, a method of calculating the age of a child, which is generally one to two years longer than the actual age when a child is born.

2. Explanation of the False Age:

An age calculation method. Even if a person is born one year old, he will be one year old every New Year, so that he is one or two years longer than his actual age, so it is called "imaginary age".

People's Literature, No. 6, 1981: "Xiaoling is the youngest, eleven years old, half a year younger than me. ”

3. Examples of virtual age usage:

1. That year, he was 27 years old, and his actual age was only 25 years old.

2. Look at Comrade Wang Dongxing, who passed away recently, he didn't dig much and didn't dig much, and he lived to 100 years old.