Chinese calendar | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/10/2019

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00:02:48 1 History
00:02:58 1.1 Solar calendars
00:05:28 1.1.1 Lunisolar calendars
00:07:19 1.1.2 Qin and early Han dynasties
00:08:09 1.1.3 Han-Ming dynasties and Taichu calendar
00:10:06 1.2 Modern calendars
00:10:51 1.2.1 Shíxiàn calendar
00:12:11 1.2.2 Proposals
00:12:57 1.3 Outlying areas
00:13:24 2 Structure
00:13:33 2.1 Elements
00:15:25 2.2 Features
00:18:21 2.3 Codes
00:19:20 2.4 Day
00:19:49 2.5 Week
00:21:31 2.6 Month
00:25:47 2.6.1 Names of months
00:26:11 2.6.2 Chinese lunar date conventions
00:29:00 2.7 Solar term
00:29:55 2.8 Solar year
00:32:46 2.9 Lunisolar year
00:34:03 2.9.1 Age reckoning
00:35:05 2.9.2 Year-numbering systems
00:35:14 2.9.2.1 Eras
00:35:54 2.9.2.2 Stem-branches
00:36:39 2.9.2.3 Continuous numbering
00:40:30 2.10 Chinese New Year
00:41:48 2.11 Phenology
00:42:57 3 See also



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The traditional China calendar (officially known as the Rural Calendar [農曆; 农历; Nónglì; 'farming calendar']), or Former Calendar (舊曆; 旧历; Jiùlì), Traditional Calendar (老曆; 老历; Lǎolì) or Lunar Calendar (陰曆; 阴历; Yīnlì; 'yin calendar'), is a lunisolar calendar which reckons years, months and days according to astronomical phenomena. It is defined by GB/T 33661-2017, "Calculation and promulgation of the Chinese calendar", issued by the Standardisation Administration of China on 12 May 2017.
Although modern-day China uses the Gregorian calendar, the traditional Chinese calendar governs holidays—such as the Lantern Festival—in both China and in overseas Chinese communities. It also gives the traditional Chinese nomenclature of dates within a year, which people use for selecting auspicious days for weddings, funerals, moving, or starting a business.
Like Chinese characters, variants of this calendar are used in different parts of the Chinese cultural sphere. Korea, Vietnam, and the Ryukyu Islands adopted the calendar, and it evolved into Korean, Vietnamese, and Ryukyuan calendars. The main difference from the traditional Chinese calendar is the use of different meridians, which leads to some astronomical events—and calendar events based on them—falling on different dates. The traditional Japanese calendar also derived from the Chinese calendar (based on a Japanese meridian), but its official use in Japan was abolished in 1873 as part of reforms after the Meiji Restoration. Calendars in Mongolia and Tibet have absorbed elements of the traditional Chinese calendar, but are not direct descendants of it.Days begin and end at midnight, and months begin on the day of the new moon. Years begin on the second (or third) new moon after the winter solstice. Solar terms govern the beginning and end of each month. Written versions in ancient China included stems and branches of the year and the names of each month, including leap months as needed. Characters indicated whether a month was long (大, 30 days) or short (小, 29 days); stem branches for the first, eleventh, and 21st days, and the date, stem branch and time of the solar terms.