The name of calendar is in Chinese: 曆; pinyin: lì, and was represented in earlier character forms variants (歷, 厤), and ultimately derived from an … 展开

Lunisolar
Lunisolar calendars involve correlations of the cycles of the sun (solar) and the moon (lunar).
Solar and agricultural
A solar calendar (also called the Tung Shing, the … 展开

Twelve branches
Day
China has used the Western hour-minute-second system to divide the day since the Qing dynasty. Several era-dependent systems had been in use; systems using multiples of twelve and … 展开

An epoch is a point in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era, thus serving as a reference point from which subsequent time or dates … 展开

The Chinese calendar system has a long history, which has traditionally been associated with specific dynastic periods. Various individual calendar types have been developed with … 展开

Horology, or chronometry, refers to the measurement of time. In the context of the Chinese calendar, horology involves the definition and mathematical measurement of terms or elements such observable astronomic movements or events such as are associated with … 展开

Various traditional and religious holidays shared by communities throughout the world use the Chinese (Lunisolar) calendar:
Holidays with the same day and same month
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