Intercalary months have been inserted to keep the calendar year in step with the solar year of about 365 days.
#CHINESE LUNAR CALENDAR FULL#
Ancient Chinese People and their emperor believe that the use of Chinese Lunisolar Calendar is a mandate of heaven. The traditional Chinese calendar, popularly known as the Agricultural calendar, Chinese Lunar Calendar, or the Yin Calendar, is a lunisolar calendar that clearly identifies days, months, and years according to astronomical phenomena. The Chinese calendar is basically lunar, its year consisting of 12 months of alternately 29 and 30 days, equal to 354 days, or approximately 12 full lunar cycles. 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. The benefits of a lunisolar calendar (Chinese Calendar) are to easily being able to tell the phases of the moon and tidal patterns. 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. The Chinese lunar calendar is a traditional calendar inChinaand it is also called Xia Li, Zhong Li, Jiu Li, or Yin Li.
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