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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 China and Chinese communities the Gregorian ...
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.
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 ...
Add events, set up reminders, and create multiple calendars to keep your work and personal life separate. To sync schedules and simplify event planning, subscribe to someone else's calendar or share your own. AOL Calendar is only available on desktop web browsers and AOL Desktop Gold. Learn how to navigate to AOL Calendar.
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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The White House will send an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, in ...
A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc, B. sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) [1] is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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The Chinese people still celebrate certain practices during the Dongzhi festival, such as the union of family. [8] In Hong Kong, many businesses let employees off early to spend time with their families on this day, [8] while in some areas shops close for the holiday.