Chinese calendar

The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar formed by combining a purely lunar calendar with a solar calendar. In modern times Chinese usually use the Gregorian Calendar for most day to day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for the dating of traditional holidays such as Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) and the Mid-Autumn Festival and in astrology, including choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the grand opening of a building. The primary use in day to day activities is for determining the phase of the moon, which is important for farmers and is possible because each day in the calendar corresponds to a particular phase of the month. Other traditional east Asian calendars are similar to if not identical to the Chinese calendar: the Korean calendar is identical, the Vietnamese calendar substitutes the cat for the rabbit in the twelve animals,

External links

• Rules for the Chinese Calendar
• The Structure of the Chinese Calendar
• Chinese Zodiac Chart Find your Chinese Zodiac sign based on your date of birth.
• Years of China, Japan, and Korea
• Calendar Conversion
• Chinese Calendrics Windows software, converts all dates
• Gregorian-Chinese calendar converter- works only for the republican age (after 1912)
• Two Thousand Year Chinese Calendar Converter (in Chinese)- works for all dates from the Han Dynasty until 2100
• Pages from the Hong Kong Observatory website
• The Chinese Agricultural Calendar or Nongli
• The 24 Solr Terms of Jieqi
• Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
• The 12-Year Animal Cycle
• Gregorian-Lunar Calendar Conversion Table
• Calendar years for China and Korea
• Chinese Lunar Calendar 2005
• Chinese Lunar Calendar 2006