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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.
Armenian calendar: 796 ԹՎ ՉՂԶ: Assyrian calendar: 6097: Balinese saka calendar: 1268–1269: Bengali calendar: 753–754: Berber calendar: 2297: English Regnal year: 20 Edw. 3 – 21 Edw. 3: Buddhist calendar: 1891: Burmese calendar: 709: Byzantine calendar: 6855–6856: Chinese calendar: 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4044 or 3837 — to ...
The government wanted to abolish the Chinese calendar to force everyone to use the Gregorian calendar, and even abolished the Lunar New Year, but faced great opposition. The public needed the astronomical Chinese calendar to do things at a proper time, for example farming and fishing; also, a wide spectrum of festivals and customs observations ...
The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The first one is known as lichun in Chinese, risshun in Japanese, ipchun in Korean, and lập xuân in Vietnamese. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 315° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 330°. It more often refers in particular to the day ...
Observances set by the Chinese calendar (1 C, 22 P) S. ... Pages in category "Chinese calendars" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Chinese cardinal and intermediary colors. Chinese culture attaches certain values to colors, [1] such as considering some to be auspicious (吉利) or inauspicious (不利). The Chinese word for 'color' is yánsè (顏色). In Literary Chinese, the character 色 more literally corresponds to 'color in the face' or 'emotion'. It was generally ...
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The traditional Chinese calendar was developed between 771 and 476 BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period of the Eastern Zhou dynasty. National Clothing: Cheongsam [citation needed] Cheongsam and sometimes referred as the mandarin gown, is a Chinese dress worn by women which takes inspiration from the qizhuang, the ethnic clothing of the ...