The full name of the lunar calendar,"lunar calendar" or "pure lunar calendar." According to the moon moon lunar cycle changes,that is,on the development of朔望because the ancients said that the moon as "Lunar",so called "lunar calendar",referred to as "the lunar calendar." Generated by the lunar calendar has been difficult to determine the exact date,but Oracle has always been bones of a judge about the lunar calendarYin era quite universal.
The main characteristics of the lunar calendar:the length of the basis of calendar month Sky month phase to determine the big 30,Xiaoyue on the 29th,the average calendar month朔望on broadly in line with the average length of 29.5306 Japanese equivalent.The length of the year only a few times the entire calendar month,and has nothing to do with the return of the year.Therefore,the lunar month had nothing to do with the four years.Lunar calendar date that a certain phase of the moon,which is the first new moon,or crescent; 15,16 or 17 is a full moon,that is,look;On the 7th,eighth of the fourth month is上弦月; 22,23 is old moon,which is central to the ancients by virtue of judge on the date is very convenient.And on the change of phase is most likely to see the planetarium,so calendar and most of the countries after the first lunar calendar.However,due to the lunar calendar has nothing to do with the return of the year,therefore,with agricultural production and people's daily lives and lack of coordination,then gradually be eliminated.In addition to the current number of Islamic countries,because of religious reasons still using a substance called "Back to the calendar," the lunar calendar,other countries have abandoned.
In addition,.China in 1912 a "calendar" arrangement on the future,people put calendar known as the "solar" and to co-exist in the private sector at the same time the traditional "lunar calendar," popular to call it "the lunar calendar."
Gregorian calendar,also known as the Gregorian calendar,the solar calendar,the new calendar,the Western calendar,also known as Gregorian calendar.It was in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar.From this year,the Gregorian calendar instead of BC for 42 years by the Roman emperor Caesar ZHU implemented "Julian calendar" (old calendar).Gregorian calendar is based on the Earth around the sun shall be counted as one week.Its length is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds.Since it is not an integer,in order to even out the length,and some years is 366 days,known as the "leap year"; some of the year is 365 days,known as the "average year." Ten thousand years of this calendar in every wrong about three days,than the old "Julian calendar" on the wrong day for every four hundred years.
As a result of this calendar is based on distance from the earth and the sun location,so it's "24 solar terms" are fixed:the first half of the monthly cycle more than 6,21,and more in the second half of the monthly 8,23,even if a difference of only 12 days.
Western calendar is eight years of the Ming Dynasty (1580),by the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci Chuanjin China.Matteo Ricci's "calendar and the West" is "Julian calendar." Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to implement the "calendar days",on China's lunar calendar since the revolution,it adopted the Gregorian calendar,but it has also been revised."Calendar days" in the Chinese original "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches",but also the solar calendar of the "worship" (weeks),can be described as yin and yang combined calendar."Calendar days" in the Chinese calendar said,it is a revolutionary spirit of the special calendar.After the republican revolution,from New Year's Day in 1912,using the Republic of China and the Gregorian Calendar.September 27,1949,the first plenary session of the CPPCC resolution:"People's Republic of China adopted Jinian Year." Since then,China has also been adopted Jinian calendar year.
