traditional Chinese calendar (traditional Chinese: 農曆; simplified Chinese: 农历; lit. 'agricultural calendar'; informally traditional Chinese: 陰曆; simplified...
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This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western (Gregorian) calendar, and other related information...
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of China calendar, often shortened to the ROC calendar or the Minguo calendar, is a calendar used in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. The calendar uses...
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with the lunar calendar in China. The most celebrated Chinese holidays, such as Spring Festival (Chunjie, 春節), also known as the Chinese New Year, Lantern...
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The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year...
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Gregorian calendar in 1873, the reference calendar was based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Briefly Abridged Calendar of 1873 Calendar for 1907 Over...
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The traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring...
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Chinese characters mark the New and Full Moons of the Chinese calendar, which typically differ by one day from those of the Thai. Thai lunar calendar...
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calendar. The adopted calendar in both mainland China and Taiwan is called the Public Calendar (simplified Chinese: 公历; traditional Chinese: 公曆; pinyin: Gōnglì)...
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Chinese astrology is based on traditional Chinese astronomy and the Chinese calendar. Chinese astrology flourished during the Han dynasty (2nd century...
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Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day,...
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cycle with the Chinese calendar. The Surya Siddhanta and other Indian classical texts on astronomy had some influence on the Chinese calendar although it...
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the Hijri calendar observed by most of Islam. Alternatively, in some lunisolar calendars, such as the Hebrew calendar and Chinese calendar, the first...
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New moon (section Chinese calendar)
of the month in the Islamic calendar and in some lunisolar calendars such as the Hebrew calendar. In the Chinese calendar, the beginning of the month...
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Indian subcontinent), Chinese calendars and Mesoamerican calendars. These are not specific calendars but series of historical calendars undergoing reforms...
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A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation...
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Public holidays in Taiwan (redirect from Overseas Chinese Day)
Chinese holidays Public holidays in China Public holidays in Japan Camaron Kao (May 14, 2012), "Thousands of believers mark Buddha's birthday", China...
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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas...
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Hebrew calendar, the Chinese calendar, and the Babylonian calendar, but different from the Gregorian calendar. Unlike the Gregorian calendar which adds...
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emperors, see Chinese era name. Most Chinese do not assign numbers to the years of the Chinese calendar, but the few who do, like expatriate Chinese, use a continuous...
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Leap year (category Calendars)
"leap second month" i.e. simplified Chinese: 闰二月; traditional Chinese: 閏二月; pinyin: rùn'èryuè. The Hebrew calendar is lunisolar with an embolismic month...
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Tiger (zodiac) (redirect from Tiger (Chinese zodiac))
of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Tiger is associated with the Earthly...
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calendar system is possible without disruption. Examples of this include the changes to the Chinese calendar due to problems between regions in China...
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Ghost Festival (category Observances set by the Chinese calendar)
to the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in parts of southern China).: 4, 6 ...
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Liqiu (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. Lìqiū, Risshū, Ipchu, or Lập thu (Chinese: 立秋; pinyin: lìqiū) is the 13th solar term...
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the old calendar. Similar to most traditional calendars of other East Asian countries, the Korean Calendar is derived from the Chinese calendar. The traditional...
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as 1029. Beginning in 1324, the Chinese Yuan dynasty introduced the Thụ Thời (Chinese: 授時; pinyin: shòu shí) calendar to the Vietnamese Trần dynasty....
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Sexagenary cycle (redirect from Ziyue (calendar))
modern Chinese time-keeping or the official calendar. However, the sexagenary cycle is used in the names of many historical events, such as the Chinese Xinhai...
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established in Tibet in 2009. List of annual events in China List of observances set by the Chinese calendar Public holidays in Hong Kong Public holidays in...
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Dragon (zodiac) (redirect from Dragon (Chinese zodiac))
of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Dragon is associated with the Earthly...
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