Chinese Calendar of the year is presented in form of a table for each month. While in each table cell two dates: date of the Chinese Calendar and date of the Gregorian Calendar.

Months in Chinese Calendar: Month big: 30 days; Month small: 29 days.
The night of the first day (day 1) of a Chinese calendar Month is the New Moon: an invisible Moon.
The night of the day 15 of a Chinese calendar Month is the Full Moon: a round Moon, she is perfect.

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This Chinese calendar is for Chinese Agriculturers at the countryside, the dates are fixed on the pure Chinese Lunar Calendar: it includes a whole lunar year, it starts at the first day of the first month until the last day of the chinese calendar of the year. For a bilingual calendar with dates fixed on the Gregorian Calendar, ie, that starts on the January 1st until December 31 of the Gregorian year, like those on sale in Asian Stores on Paper or Cloth, please visite the Gregorian + Chinese Calendar.

What is the Chinese Lunar Calendar ?

The Chinese Calendar is a solilunar calendar. It integrates as well the revolution of the Earth around the Sun as the movement of the Moon around the Earth.

A month begins at the day of the new moon (invisible Moon) and ends at the day before the next new moon. The full moon is either on 15 or 16 of the month.

A Chinese year can have 12 or 13 lunar months, that correspond to the nomber of new moons between two successive winter solstices. The year is appelé leap year if there are 13 months in the year.

If a Chinese year always starts on the 1^st month 1, the date marking the beginning of the Chinese New Year in the Gregorian calendar is variable between January and March according to relative position of the Sun - Moon.

Here is the Chinese Calendar of my maternal grand father.

Year in the Chinese Lunar Calendar

A Chinese Year (Suì, 岁) is composed of 4 seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and sub-divised in 24 Chinese Feasts, equivalent to the 24 Chinese Solar Terms of a Chinese Year. The major solar terms Zhōngqì (中气) are given in boldface, while the minor solar terms Jiéqì (节气) are given in lightface.
As these solar terms are only events of the Sun, no lunar event related feasts, such as Chinese New Year which is the day of the first new Moon (day 1 of month 1 of a Chinese lunar year), Dragon Feast (day 5 of month 5 of a Chinese lunar year), are in the list.

Since the creation of the People's Republic of China on October 1st 1949 by the President MAO Zedong (Mao Tsetong), China has officially adopted the Gregorian calendar, or the solar calendar for the administration purpose. Nevertheless, the Chinese People keep their traditional feasts fixed on the dates of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. These feasts are very vivid today such as the Spring Festivities, symbol of the arrival of the Chinese New Year.

The Spring Festival takes place always on the first day of the first month on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. But the date on the solar calendar varies with the year. Il is always on January or February of the current year on the solar calendar, but its date can be obtained only by a very complex calculation of the dual movement of the Earth and of the Moon.

In the Ancient Chinese History of 24 dynasties, the time has neither beginning, nor ending. Each dynasty hopes an infinite reign on time and each emperor starts counting by his first year of reign as year 1. For example, the Emperor KangXi of the Qing Dynasty counts his reign by KangXi year 1, KangXi year 2, KangXi year 3, ...

Nowadays, the Chinese have officially the Gregorian year. This is to say, the year 2024 for this year. But as the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) is considered as the Creator of the Chinese Nation, the population count also as Huangdi 4722 for this year.

To know more about chinese feasts of the 4 seasons related to the chinese calendar, the chinese lunar calendar of my grand father would be a precious help.

Here is the Chinese Lunar Calendar for the year Year -1378

cycle 21, Chinese Year Ren-Xu (59), year -1378, 354 days

month 1 Big

month 2 Small

month 3 Big

month 4 Small

month 5 Big

month 6 Small

month 7 Small

month 8 Big

month 9 Small

month 10 Big

month 11 Small

month 12 Big

What is the Chinese Lunar Calendar ?

Year in the Chinese Lunar Calendar

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