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Zodiac dragon. The dragon (simplified Chinese: 龙; traditional Chinese: 龍; pinyin: lóng; Jyutping: lung; Cantonese Yale: lùhng) is the fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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.
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]
It celebrates the arrival of spring and the start of a fresh year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. The upcoming year’s dragon sign is perhaps the most popular zodiac creature, associated ...
For thousands of years, China observed the Lunar New Year as the beginning of a new year until the government officially switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1912, which commemorates the day on ...
Deepak Chopra's The Chopra Center is offering a free 2009 calendar to anyone who fills out this form. According to the website: The Chopra Center for Wellbeing brings together the talents of a ...
Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy (theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth, and human), and uses the principles of yin and yang, wuxing (five phases), the ten Heavenly Stems, the twelve Earthly Branches, the lunisolar calendar (moon calendar and sun calendar), and the time calculation after year, month, day ...
In the Year of the Dragon, 1989 album by Geri Allen, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian; Year of the Dragon (Busta Rhymes album) Year of the Dragon by Machine Head; Year of the Dragon (Modern Talking album), 2000; The Year of the Dragon, a three-movement work composed by Philip Sparke; Year of the Dragon Tour Diary: Japan, EP from Machine Head