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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 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. More recently, in ...
Sexagenary cycle. 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.
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9th day of the 9th month. Friday, 11 October 2024. Double Ninth Festival (Chongyang Festival) 重陽節 / 重阳节. (Chóng Yáng Jié) Autumn outing and mountain climbing, some Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects. 1st day of the 10th month. Friday, 1 November 2024. Winter Clothes Day.
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The ten Heavenly Stems or Celestial Stems [1] ( Chinese: 天 干; pinyin: tiāngān) are a Chinese system of ordinals that first appear during the Shang dynasty, c. 1250 BCE, as the names of the ten days of the week. They were also used in Shang-period ritual as names for dead family members, who were offered sacrifices on the corresponding day ...
The first gēng theoretically comes at sundown, but was standardized to fall at yǒu shí central 1 kè, or 19:12. The time between each gēng is 10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng ( 一 更) (alternately chū gēng ( 初更) for "initial watch ...
Hungary and China signed a number of new agreements on Thursday to deepen their economic and cultural cooperation during a visit to the Central European country by Chinese President Xi Jinping, a ...
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