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Time traveler: 2015-03-23 10:27:07

Calendars are very important for the people. Every day we do some work according the calendars. Someone grinds, cuts rye, grows wheat or cabbage and do everything according to the calendar. Thus, everyone wants to plan his activity with purpose to get successful results. Everyone desires to have successful activity and tries to do it with a help of a calendar carefully and systematically. But there is another side of the calendar ...

Look, what a variety of calendars do we have: with cars, girls, and sports. But these topics are not related with calendar directly. Calendars are produced with naked woman or castles or space pictures. Well I understand, when it is with plants, which grows according seasons, but why it is with pictures not related to seasons? So it is some sort of culture. We like pictures and hang them on the walls. It represents our hobby, features of life and personality.

All to all the calendar is not only beneficial for seasoning and planning, but also they help us to show ourselves to others, to express our opinion and mood.

Mike: 2024-04-23 07:46:26

Most countries live according to the Gregorian calendar, which appeared in the 16th century. The countdown begins from the supposed date of Jesus Christ's birth —now it is 2024. However, some people and even states use their calendars in a way that is parallel to the generally accepted Gregorian calendar. We have selected several countries where the "local" year differs from the one we are used to.

Jewish - 5784 year
Used in Israel along with the Gregorian. This calendar is used to celebrate Jewish holidays and birthdays, and the corresponding chapters of the Torah are read in synagogues.

Chinese Lunar- 4721 year
It is known primarily for its 60-year cycles, where each year is dedicated to a certain element and animal. Now, for example, it is the year of the Black Water Rabbit

Buddhist -2567 year
The countdown begins from the moment Buddha Gautama departs into nirvana—for us, this is 543 BC. The calendar parallels the Gregorian calendar in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. In Thailand, the Buddhist calendar is used as the official calendar.

Ethiopian - 2016 year
The count begins on August 29, 8 AD, according to the ancient Coptic calendar. Christians, both Catholics and Orthodox, use the calendar in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Islamic- 1446 year
The calendar began in 622 when the Prophet Muhammad moved from Mecca to Medina. Until 2016, it was the official calendar in Saudi Arabia. Muslims now use it to determine the dates of religious holidays.

Iranian -1403 year
The starting point of this Muslim calendar is the same as the Islamic one, 622. However, unlike this, the Iranian calendar is based not on lunar cycles but on solar ones currently used in Iran and Afghanistan.

Juche calendar - 113 year
Since 1997, North Korea has used the Juche calendar in parallel with the Gregorian calendar. The beginning of the calendar is the year of Kim Il Sung's birth, 1912. When writing dates, both calendars are used - it looks like "September 20, 112 Juche [2024]."

Japanese - 5 year
In Japan, the calendar begins anew when a new emperor, upon ascending the throne, announces the name of the period - the motto under which he will reign. The current head of state, Emperor Naruhito, ascended the throne on May 1, 2019 - the Reiwa era began.

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Joki: 2025-05-13 05:34:56

Archaeologists find fortune-telling bones describing the ancient Chinese calendar, which dates back to the 16th-11th centuries BC. At this time in China, the year was divided into 12 lunar months, and the beginning of the year fell on the first new Moon after the winter solstice. The calendar was connected with the seasons and solstices. Errors, such as the missing number of days before the solstices, were compensated by the thirteenth or even fourteenth months. At the same time, the calendars of different kingdoms differed. In 221 BC, China was unified under the rule of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The great emperor of the first unified Chinese state carried out a calendar reform. Qin Shi Huang established a single calendar. The beginning of the year was moved to the second new Moon before the winter solstice. The concept of 24 seasons appeared, which were determined by the sun's movement along the ecliptic, which became the basis for creating an agricultural calendar.

The development of astronomical knowledge in Ancient China influenced further changes in the calendar. Thus, in 104 BC, the Confucians created the calendar "Great Beginning." The beginning of the year was shifted to the new Moon of late January—early February. As modern scientists believe, even then, the basis for constructing the calendar was a year of 365.24 days. The first calendar that came down to us, which described the calculation algorithms, dates back to 23 AD. It represents the positions of the planets, conjunctions of the Sun and the Moon, eclipses, the concept of leap years that appeared, and the calculated lunar month and solar year. Thus, at the beginning of our era, the astronomical knowledge of the ancient Chinese was very close to our modern ideas; the length of the year was 365.25 days, and the length of the lunar month was slightly more than 29 days.
What is the traditional Chinese lunar calendar? It is not quite lunar; it is lunisolar. But it can also be called simply the Chinese or Chinese lunar calendar.

In such a calendar, the length of the month is determined by the phases of the Moon, and the length of the year is determined by the movement of the Earth around the Sun. Due to the complex movement of the Moon, the new year can begin between January 21 and February 21. There is no direct, strict relationship between the Chinese and Gregorian calendars. To translate dates, you need to use special tables or online services. In addition, when discussing the traditional Chinese calendar, you must introduce the concept of a 60-year cycle.

The 60-year cycle is a combination of 12-year and 10-year cycles, which are poetically called by the Chinese "earthly branches" and "heavenly stems" respectively. The overall cycle repeats every 60 years, and 60 cycles of 60 years form an era (3600 years).
The beginning of the cyclical count is 2397 BC (another option is 2697). And 2025, according to the Gregorian calendar, is 4722 according to the traditional cyclical Chinese calendar. The year begins on the second new Moon after the winter solstice. The lunar month lasts 29.5 days. Chinese lunar months are short (29 days) and long (30 days) .Since the lunar year is 11 days shorter than the solar year, an extra month has to be added every few years. The number of days in a year in the traditional Chinese calendar ranges from 353 to 385, and the number of months in a year can be 12 or 13.

The Chinese do not name the months in the traditional calendar. They assign them numbers. They can also call them two symbols: Trunk and Branch (remember, above, we said that 12- and 10-year cycles are called "heavenly trunks" and "earthly branches").
Thus, according to the Chinese, over 60 years, there is not a single identical year or month; each has its characteristics, depending on the combination of the type of trunks and branches and the polarity of yin-yang.

The Chinese calendar has many symbols and deep meanings. Shades of color, materials, seasons, animals, natural elements, and cardinal directions are intertwined. The relationships between them turn into cunning, witty patterns of meaning. Each year of the 12-year cycle has its symbol - an animal (rat, bull, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, pig).
Every 2 years of the 10-year cycle have symbols of color, element, planet, cardinal direction, season :

white - metal - Venus - west - autumn - path to the world of the dead;black - water - Mercury - north - winter - secret knowledge, ending life;blue or green - wood - Jupiter - east - spring - the beginning of life, the impulse of beginnings;red - fire - Mars - south - summer - triumph, the apogee of life;yellow - Earth - Saturn - the basis, the center - the end of summer - eternity.

The years of the 10-year cycle have such different characteristics. In addition, each of the two years' polarity is different: either yang or yin (positive or negative, male or female, hard or soft).In addition, the 60-year cycle is divided into two halves of 30 years, one of which is yang, and the other is yin.

Below is a table of the 60-year cycle, where the years of the 10-year cycle - "heavenly stems" - are shown horizontally, and the years of the 12-year cycle - "earthly branches" - are displayed vertically. At the intersection of these stems and branches, the ordinal number of the year in the 60-year cycle is indicated (in the upper left corner) and the date of the new year from 1924 to 2044.
60-year cycle of the traditional Chinese calendar. When does the year begin and end in China? Depending on your calendar, this will be the beginning of the year.
Officially, the new year in China begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 (according to the Gregorian calendar).

According to the solar (agricultural calendar), the year begins on February 4-5, when the sun is at 315° ecliptic longitude.

According to the cyclic lunisolar traditional calendar, the date will change every year. It should be taken from the table of the 60-year cycle. The new year 2025 will be the 42nd year of the cycle. It will be the year of the blue (green)/wooden snake.
Holidays in China are also celebrated, taking into account different calendars. So, out of 7 public holidays in China, three are celebrated according to the Gregorian, three according to the traditional Chinese lunisolar, and one according to the solar.

The official New Year (01.01), Labor Day (01.05), and National Day (1.10) are celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar.All Souls' Day (Tomb Sweeping Day) is celebrated according to the solar calendar on the 104th day from the winter solstice.

Chinese New Year (1st day of the 1st lunar month), Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month), and Mid-Autumn Festival (15th day of the 8th lunar month) are celebrated according to the traditional Chinese calendar.

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