![]() ![]() ![]() In China, it is defined by the Chinese national standard GB/T 336612017, 1 'Calculation and Promulgation of the Chinese Calendar', issued by the Standardization Administration of China on May 12, 2017. Ancient Chinese People and their emperor believe that the use of Chinese Lunisolar Calendar is a mandate of heaven. The traditional Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar which identifies years, months, and days according to astronomical phenomena. For centuries these calendars have followed a twelve-year cycle, using. But the drawback is they don’t allow you to pinpoint where the Earth is in relation to the sun and more practically, it’s harder to align the months exactly with the seasons. It also signals the beginning of spring and the start of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. Find Chinese Lunar Calendar stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. The benefits of a lunisolar calendar (Chinese Calendar) are to easily being able to tell the phases of the moon and tidal patterns. The Chinese lunar calendar is a traditional calendar inChinaand it is also called Xia Li, Zhong Li, Jiu Li, or Yin Li. Think Leap Years, but instead of an additional day at the end of every four Februarys, a whole month is added every two or three years. To square the difference, the Lunar Calendar uses so-called intercalary months. There are 350 or so days in a Lunar Calendar Year, but it takes the Earth 365 and a quarter to go around the sun. Lunar Calendar, which follows the cycles of the moon is still used to determine holidays that are celebrated in China and many other parts of the world that trace their culture to ancient Chinese history.įarmers in many parts of the country also still use the calendar to plan when to put seeds in the ground for optimal harvests. ![]()
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