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Chinese Calendar |
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The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar which is relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations, containing some factors of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. The Chinese Lunar New Year is the most longest record in the chronological time of history, from 2600BC, in the time when the Emperor Huang Ti inaugurated the first periodical movement of the zodiac. Similar to the Western calendar, the Chinese Calendar is a annual calender begins with the lunar year which is based on the cycles of the moon.
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For this cyclic dating, the starting of the lunar year can pass between late January and the halfway of February. A perfect cycle takes around 60 years and it is assembled of five cycles of twelve years each. The names of the months in the Chinese Calendar are came after the names of animals. According to legend, it is said that the Lord Buddha ordered to gather all the animals to arrive to him before he went away from earth. Among all of them, only twelve animals came to offer him word of farewell and as a reward lord Buddha called a year after each one of the twelve animals.
Nowadays, China follow the Gregorian calendar for day to day natural processes but the Chinese calendar is also applied for marking off all the conventional Chinese holidays like Chinese New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, Duan Wu festival and many more auspicious celebrations.
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