Chinese New Year is just round the corner and this is the best time to check the new chinese almanac for the coming year. Year 2024 in chinese calendar is 甲辰年 (Jia Chen year).
When we look into a new chinese almanac, the first thing that draw our attention is the spring cow drawing 春牛圖. This is the spring cow for 甲辰年.
Here is another picture of a Chinese almanac in year 1888 which is 136 years ago and it was 光諸14年 戊子年 in the Qing dynasty.
This is the spring cow drawing at that time was like this, they are similar but we can see things are evolving over time.
