The year of the ox is the way to calculate the year in the Chinese calendar. The year of the ox is the year when the year number of A.D. is divided by 12 and the remainder is 5. Cattle is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, ranking second.
牛年起算自二十四节气之立春,因为生肖年依附于干支纪年,而干支纪年又是干支历的纪年方法。
The year of the ox starts from the beginning of the spring of the 24 solar terms, because the year of the zodiac is attached to the Ganzhi calendar, and the Ganzhi calendar is the method of the Ganzhi calendar.
All the official calendars (i.e. the Yellow calendar) are like this. The lunar calendar only uses Ganzhi to record the year. The range of the year is from the first day of the first month to new year's Eve, which is not controversial.
Cattle is a symbol of wealth and power in western culture. It originated in ancient Egypt. According to the records of Exodus, the Israelites used gold to build golden calves as the image of the LORD God soon after they left Egypt.