Chinese Agricultural Calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar is known as the Agricultural Calendar (Nongli in Chinese), as the calendar divides the year into seasons for agriculture, which is the principal economy of the country in the ancient China. Even today, it still has the great significance to many Chinese people.
And according to the agricultural calendar culture, Chinese people have their unique way of daily life. They created the 24 solar terms system to remark the activities in agriculture. From the names of these solar terms, farmers can immediately know what should do during this period.
They also divided years into 12 kinds based on the 12 Animal Cycle. It is said that the culture in notion is the culture in the world. The unique 12 Animal Cycle is applied not only to the Chinese but also to the people all over the world. Every one can find his or her animal mascot based on the year they came to the world.
Calendars that are based on the moon's orbit around the Earth are known as lunar calendars (Yinli in Chinese), and Solar calendars (Yangli in Chinese) are another category of calendars that are based on the positions of the Sun through the seasons. The Agricultural Calendar is an integrated lunar-solar calendar as it embraces the movement of the moon as well as that of the Sun. In ancient time, observation of moon phases is a convenient way to count the days. For example, new moon goes ... More
The 24 solar terms is a gross name of the system that consists of 12 major solar terms and 12 minor solar terms. 12 major solar terms Starting from 'vernal equinox', the 12 major solar terms are 'vernal equinox', 'corn rain', 'corn forms', 'summer solstice', 'great heat', 'end of heat', 'autumnal equinox', 'frost', 'light snow', 'winter solstice', 'severe cold' and 'spring showers'. Minor solar terms The minor solar term after 'vernal equinox' is 'bright and... More
The history of using 12-year animal cycles to record the years in China dates back to 100 A.D. Each year is represented by an animal and the 12 animals are mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. As to the order of these 12 animals, there is a legend. Every one among the 12 wants to be placed first of the cycle. Hence, a fairy proposes a contest: the order will be decided by the places in the competition that reaching the opposite bank of the... More
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