Zaomatou Annual Pronouncements (灶馬頭)

The tongshu front page's ANNUAL PRONOUNCEMENTS from the 灶馬頭 tradition — 幾龍治水 (how many dragons govern the waters), 幾牛耕田 (how many oxen till the fields), 幾人分餅 (how many share the cake), 幾日得辛 (how many days to obtain the metal) — the four counts printed beside the Spring Ox on every classical almanac's opening spread. The rules are the tradition's own calendar arithmetic: count the lunar days of 正月 from New Year's Day, and the day numbers of the first 辰-branch, 丑-branch, 丙-stem and 辛-stem days give the four counts (丙 read as 餅, the cake; 辛 as the reward of 辛勞). Served with each count's rule shown, the tradition's reading (fewer dragons = more rain — and the 龍多靠 folk inversion NAMED, not hidden), and the almanac's further variant layers (幾屠共豬, 幾姑把蠶) deferred until double-sourced. VERIFIED against three published tongshu years across five independent articles — 2024 甲辰 (一龍治水・十牛耕田・三人分餅), 2025 乙巳 (七龍治水・四牛耕田・九人分餅・四日得辛), 2026 丙午 (七龍治水・四牛耕田・五人分餅・十日得辛) — all reproduced exactly, with the 2025/2026 anchors asserted at load and the sexagenary pigeonhole theorems machine-checked. Pairs with almanac.springOx to complete the tongshu front page. Folk almanac culture for reflection — not weather forecasting. Pure computation, no LLM.

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