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The traditional Chinese calendar ( traditional Chinese: 農曆; simplified Chinese: 农历; lit. 'agricultural calendar'; informally traditional Chinese: 陰曆; simplified Chinese: 阴历; lit. ' lunar calendar ') is a lunisolar calendar, combining the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.
Using the definition of kè as 1⁄100 of a day, each kè is equal to 0.24 hours, 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. Every shí contains 8 1⁄3 kè, with 7 or 8 full kè and partial beginning or ending kè. These fractional kè are multiples of 1⁄6 kè, or 2 minutes 24 seconds. [ a] The 7 or 8 full kè within each shí were referred to ...
This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western ( Gregorian) 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. Year in cycle. s,b. Gānzhī (干支) Year of the ...
The sexagenary cycle, also known as the stems-and-branches or ganzhi ( Chinese: 干支 ), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere and Southeast Asia. [1] [2] It appears as a means of ...
The issue spans the changeover; the date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752". [ 1] Old Style ( O.S.) and New Style ( N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in ...
A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of lunisolar calendars therefore indicates both the Moon phase and the time of the solar year, that is the position of the Sun in the Earth's sky. If the sidereal year (such as in a sidereal solar calendar) is used instead of the ...
The adoption of the Gregorian Calendar was an event in the early modern history of most cultures and societies, marking a change from their traditional (or "old style") dating system to the modern (or "new style") dating system – the Gregorian calendar – that is widely used around the world today.
A lunisolar calendar was found at Warren Field in Scotland and has been dated to c. 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period. [2] [3] Some scholars argue for lunar calendars still earlier—Rappenglück in the marks on a c. 17,000 year-old cave painting at Lascaux and Marshack in the marks on a c. 27,000 year-old bone baton—but their findings remain controversial.