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Chinese Lunar Calendar
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There are two basic sources
for calendars presently in use:
the
monthly motion of the
Moon (Lunar
Calendar) and the yearly motion of the Sun (Solar
Calendars).
The difficulty
with the Lunar calendar is that the
seasons correlate with the Sun, not the Moon.
Thus,
Lunar calendars
require elaborate adjustments or translations to
relate to the
seasons.
The
fact that calendars correlate with seasons is now
primarily a matter of
convenience, but
in more ancient cultures, keeping track of the
seasons was serious
business: it could
be a matter of survival to know things like the
proper time to plant to
ensure a
bountiful harvest.
The
Chinese Lunar New Year
is the longest
chronological record in the history, dating
from 2600 B.C., when Emperor Huang Ti
introduced the first cycle of the
zodiac(
黄
道
).
Like the Western calendar, the Chinese
Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, but with the
start of the lunar year based on the
cycles of the moon.
Because of this
cyclical dating,
the beginning of the
year can fall anywhere between late January and
the middle
February.
A Chinese calendar consists of both the
Gregorian(
罗马教皇的
) and a
lunar-solar
cylindrical systems, with
the latter dividing a year into twelve months, and
each month in
turn being equally
divided into thirty-nine and a half days. The
well-coordinated dual
system calendar
reflects Chinese ingenuity.
Even with the two cylindrical systems,
the Chinese calendar will not be complete without
a
twenty-four solar terms closely
related to the changes of Nature -- a very useful
tool for
farmers, providing information
on the proper time for planting and harvesting.
The Twenty-Four
Terms(
二十四节气
)
The first fifteen days of
the Chinese lunar month makes the first term,
namely:
Beginning of
Spring(
立春
)
usually starts from the
fourth or fifth of February. The first day is the
Chinese New
Year or the onset of the
Spring Festival. Incidentally, New Year's Day of
2000 is
February 5th.
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