The day to sacrifice ancestors, sweep tombs of the deceased relatives and go out for traveling The day before the Spring Festival: family gathering for a reunion dinner, cleaning and decorating houses, setting firecrackers, etc.įamily gathering and festivities for 3-15 days to celebrate the Chinese New YearĮating yuanxiao, watching lanterns and fireworks, guessing lantern riddles It helps people to plan their schedule easily and at an early time. So, it’s also a calendar used greatly in Feng Shui. Also, the calendar is popular among the Chinese people for selecting some lucky days and hours for special occasions like wedding, engagement, funeral, residential relocation, traveling and more. You can easily find that many Chinese festivals such as the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), Tomb-sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are calculated according to the Chinese lunar calendar. So, it’s also called the Chinese Farmer's Almanac calendar, Tung Shing or Tung Shu.
The lunar calendar has links with the four seasons, some traditional Chinese festivals, solar terms (a calendar of twenty-four periods and climate to govern agricultural arrangements in China), ' Five Elements' (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) as well as the Chinese Zodiac. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by. The Waning Gibbous on September 25 has an illumination of 81. Visit the September 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month. It is widely used in Chinese people’s daily life. During this phase the Moon can also be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. The civil calendar of China refers to the lunisolar calendar. For example, some Chinese public holidays including Chinese Labor Day, National Day, Women's Day, Children's Day, Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Army Day of the Chinese People's Liberation Army…are related to the Gregorian calendar. In China, the official calendar (also the solar calendar) is the Gregorian calendar used for public and business affairs.
Dating back to the Chinese Xia Dynasty (21st Century BC - 17th Century BC) and Shang Dynasty (17th Century BC - 1046 BC), Chinese calendar refers to any of the official and civil calendars greatly used in China.
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