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  2. International Year of Pulses - Wikipedia

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    Logo of International Year of Pulses 2016. 2016 was declared as the International Year of Pulses by the sixty eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly on December 20, 2013. [1] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has been nominated to declare a year for pulses, more commonly known as legumes. [2] [3]

  3. Four Pillars of Destiny - Wikipedia

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    In the time of Tang dynasty, Lǐ Xūzhōng (Chinese: 李虛中) reorganized this concept, and used each of the two sexagenary cycle characters assigned to a person's birth year, month and date to predict one's personality and future. This was called the "Three Pillars of Destiny", and after this theory become more and more popular.

  4. Chinese zodiac - Wikipedia

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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 in a repeating twelve-year cycle. [1] The zodiac is very important in traditional Chinese culture and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture . [ 2 ]

  5. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  6. Chinese calendar correspondence table - Wikipedia

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    Relationship between the current Sexagenary cycle and Gregorian calendar. This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch.

  7. Goat (zodiac) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Sign in the Chinese zodiac Goat "Goat" in regular Chinese characters Chinese 羊 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin yáng Wade–Giles yang 2 IPA [jǎŋ] Hakka Romanization yông Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization yèuhng Jyutping joeng4 IPA [jœŋ˩] Southern Min Hokkien POJ ...

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  9. Chinese astrology - Wikipedia

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    The system of the twelve-year cycle of animal signs was built from observations of the orbit of Jupiter (the Year Star; simplified Chinese: 岁星; traditional Chinese: 歳星; pinyin: Suìxīng). Following the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun, Chinese astronomers divided the celestial circle into 12 sections, and rounded it to 12 years (from 11 ...