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| | Chinese calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Chinese zodiac (see Nomenclature and Twelve Animals sections) is only used in naming years—it is not used in the actual calculation of the calendar. | | | Chinese Zodiac Chart Find your Chinese Zodiac sign based on your date of birth. | | | Every other jiéqì of the Chinese solar year is equivalent to an entry of the sun into a sign of the tropical zodiac (a principal term or cusp). |
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| | Chinese New Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The same calendar is used in countries that have adopted the Confucian and Buddhism tradition and in many cultures influenced by the Chinese, notably the Koreans, the tibetan, the Vietnamese and the pagan Bulgars. | | | Although Chinese New Year is not institutionalised as public holiday, these countries recognise the significant number of their citizens who are of Chinese origin. | | | For Buddhist families, the first and last days of the Chinese New Year are practiced vegetarian. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
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| | Calendopaedia - The Chinese Calendar |
| | Although the Gregorian calendar is used in the Peoples' Republic of China for administrative purposes, the traditional Chinese calendar is used for setting traditional festivals and for timing agricultural activities in the countryside. | | | Western cultures date the years from the birth of Jesus Christ (For example, 1994 means 1,994 years after the birth of Christ), and thus approach the progression of years from a linear point of view. | | | In traditional China, dating methods were cyclical, meaning that the years repeat according to a pattern. |
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| | Jordan: The Chinese Calendar |
| | That is not a very felicitous number if you want to make a calendar that fits the movement of both celestial bodies. | | | The insertion of intercalary months is the reason why Chinese New Year, like other traditional Chinese festivals, does not correspond with the same Gregorian date each year. | | | However Chinese around the world continue to celebrate traditional holidays on the lunar calendar. |
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http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbcalendar-u.html
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| | The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar |
| | An important aspect of the Chinese calendar is the sexagenary cycle (干支, gān zhī). | | | The Chinese Calendar by Henky Jamiko Gunawan, Hng Wee Kwang, Lim Chee Kian, Seah Nam Shien, Wong Chee Yeh. | | | The traditional calendar claimed that the leap month would follow the 7th month, while in fact it comes after the 11th month. |
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http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.shtml
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| | Western-Chinese Calendar Converter |
| | Hence, the last day of the Julian calendar, October 4, 1582 AD, was followed the next day by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, October 15, to rectify this error. | | | The page also includes a converter between the day in the Julian Period and the Gregorian and Julian Calendars. | | | If you came to this page directly, you might also want to take a look at some of my other |
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| | Chinese calendar |
| | The Chinese new moon is when the sky is still black, unlike the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. | | | An ordinary year has 12 months (353, 354, or 355 days) and a leap year has 13 months (383, 384, or 385 days), like the Hebrew calendar. | | | World Calendar - convert to several other calendars; also shows holidays |
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| | Chinese Calendar |
| | It is very popular among Chinese families, who consult it for any important decision. | | | a Earthly Branch (there are 12 branches, which are the famous animals of the Chinese Zodiac). | | | Another example: in the lunar calendar, February 4th 1999 still belongs to the 1998 year (Wu-Yin) and not to the Ji-Mao year: it is the 19th day of the 12th Moon (the 1999 Lunar Year Ji-Mao only begins on February, 16th 1999). |
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| | 9. The Maya Calendar |
| | The Uayeb days acquired a very derogatory reputation for bad luck; known as ``days without names'' or ``days without souls,'' and were observed as days of prayer and mourning. | | | It consisted of 18 ``months'' of 20 days each, followed by 5 extra days, known as Uayeb. | | | This 260-day cycle also had good-luck or bad-luck associations connected with each day, and for this reason, it became known as the ``divinatory year.'' |
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| | Chinese Software, Japanese Software & Korean Software by NJStar 南极星 |
| | NJ Star stands for Nan Ji Xing [Nanjixing, 南極星] in Chinese, meaning South Pole Star or Southern Star. | | | NJStar Chinese WP has been licensed for Chinese learning by many language schools or Asian study departments in Universities around the world. |
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http://www.njstar.com
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| | Chinese Lunar Calendar - LunarCal |
| | LunarCal completely enumerates 160 years of Chinese calendar for the years 1900-2060. | | | This is implemented via the Moon Compass screen, which shows the actual illumination of the Moon and its position in the sky. | | | Note that only the first screen is in Chinese, all other information screens are in English. |
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http://www.lunarcal.org
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| | Chinese Birth Calendar - Predict Your Babies Gender |
| | To predict what sex your baby will be, locate the age the mother will be when she gives birth and the month the child was conceived. | | | It has been said to be 99% accurate. | | | An ancient Chinese secret: This chart can be used to predict the sex of your unborn child. |
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http://www.webwomb.com/chinesechart.htm
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| | chinese new year |
| | Learn About the Chinese Zodiac ~ What Animal Represents You? | | | Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. | | | This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year. |
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http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
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| | The Solar Terms and the Chinese 60 Year Calendar Cycle |
| | The twelve parts of the year corresponding to the signs of the Zodiac each consists of two Solar Terms, but four Zodiacal periods overlap two seasons. | | | The Chinese New Year is often called the "lunar" new year, but it is no more "lunar" than the Babylonian, Jewish, or Islamic new years, which are also based on lunar months. | | | Another confusion about the Chinese New Year is the phrase gung hay fat choi, which is often said to be "Happy New Year!" in Chinese. |
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http://www.friesian.com/chinacal.htm
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| | Chinese Calendrics Software for converting Chinese Calendar dates |
| | --> Chinese Calendrics can be used as follows: | | | Helmer Aslaksen's The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar and to a lesser extent on L. Doggett's Calendars and Claus Tøndering's The Chinese Calendar. | | | To find days for which the element-animal is the same for day, month and year. |
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http://www.hermetic.ch/chcal/chcal.htm
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| | NJStar Chinese Lunar Calendar 1600-2100 (南极星万年历) |
| | Calendar: And finally, before we forget to mention - as a "calendar", this program displays, prints and converts Chinese-Lunar/Western calendar dates, as well as both Chinese and western Horoscopes. | | | All non-Chinese windows require Chinese support such as NJStar Communicator. | | | Sorting out your daily To-Do plans has never been easier with the help of NJStar Chinese Calendar. |
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http://www.njstar.com/calendar
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| | Chinese Calendar 1-2-3 |
| | Since the word 'Sun' has already assigned the meaning of a 'day', a new word has to be used to denote the 'year.' | | | The Chinese word for 'Year' is 'Nian', written as | | | The ancient Assyrians invented the seven-day week, and the names of days of the week that we use even today are based on a system of assigning the five planets visible to the naked eye, the sun, and the moon to the seven days of the week. |
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http://www.chinapage.com/astronomy/calendar/calendar.html
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| | On-line Chinese Tools |
| | These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. | | | Find people names, place names, dates, times, money amounts and more in a Chinese text. | | | Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. |
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http://www.mandarintools.com
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| | Chinese Pregnancy Calendar |
| | Vote on the accuracy of this method to see if it is an effective tool. | | | Chinese pregnancy calendar to predict gender before pregnancy and conception for women. | | | Use the Chinese Lunar Calendar to determine the gender of your baby. |
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http://www.carejournal.org/index.php?c=2296
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| | The Chinese Calendar |
| | The Infoplease Perpetual Calendar - View any month, any year, in the Gregorian calendar. | | | The year 2006 translates to the Chinese year 4703–4704. | | | The year 2005 translates to the Chinese year 4702–4703. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002076.html
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| | Chinese Calendar |
| | This apparent motion is viewed as three roads through the heavens - | | | As Chinese culture spread, the calendar was adopted by many other societies, including people from Japan and Korea. | | | In modern times, this translates to about the 4th or 5th of Feburary, so the new moon could be 15 days on either side of that date. |
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http://www.saxakali.com/color_asp/chinese.htm
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| | Make Your Own Chinese Calendar |
| | The result of all these is that few people know how to compute the Chinese calendar and the printed calendars are almost the sole source for most people to know the time of traditional Chinese holidays such as the Spring Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival. | | | This site provides printable and browsable Chinese calendar for a given Gregorian calendar month and/or year since the last reform of the Chinese calendar in 1645. | | | Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar based on the motions of the sun and the moon as observed on the earth. |
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http://thunder.eeap.cwru.edu/ccal
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| | Chinese Lunar Calendar |
| | Chinese Calendar Reform - The major events in the Chinese Calendar Reform History | | | Many people are looking for the formula to convert from the Gregorian Calendar to Chinese Lunar Calendar. | | | Actually, there is no formula for the Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion to satisfy me during my research from 1988 to 1992. |
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http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com/clc
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| | Chinese Lunar Calendar |
| | You can choose for yourself whether you want a boy or a girl by following the chart. | | | Remarks: A Chinese Scientist discovered and drew this chart which was buried in a Royal tomb about 700 years ago. | | | For instance, if the woman is 27 years old and her baby is conceived in January (according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar), then her baby will be a girl. |
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http://www.holodeck.com/pregnancy/chinese-cal.html
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| | Chinese Lunar Calendar - Gender Predictions |
| | The Chinese Gender Calendar was supposedly discovered by a Chinese Scientist who drew this chart which was buried in a Royal tomb about 700 years ago. | | | If there is a bit of truth to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, we would expect for the first tool to have a higher percentage of correct predictions. | | | It gives no way to convert your age into your chinese lunar age, on which this tool was based, so we would expect that the results would be correct about 50% of the time, basically as scientific as flipping a coin. |
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http://www.thelaboroflove.com/chart
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| | Chinese Astrology, Horoscope Love Match, Baby Gender Prediction and Feng Shui |
| | The foundation of Chinese Astrology is from Ying-Yang and Five Elements, which are Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth. | | | We hope you can find the Chinese Astrology secrets of you and your family's members and wish your family live luckier, wealthier, healthier, happier and longer. | | | Our free informative Chinese Astrology site provides you the advice on Baby Gender Prediction, Baby Lucky Names, Dating and Marriage Match, Lucky House and Bedroom Selections, and your Lucky Years using the combinations of Five Elements. |
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http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com
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| | Chinese Calendar |
| | You can look up the Gregorian calendar for a month of any year here. | | | You can also convert a date between solar and lunar calendars (Date range: about 150 years from the Solar Date 1900.1.31): | | | Answer to FAQ: The New Year's Day for the Year of Dog is January 29, 2006. |
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| | Chinese Fortune Telling Calendar for Chinese Astrology, Horoscope, Baby Gender Predictor, Dating, Marriage, Wedding, ... |
| | Our Chinese Fortune Calendar for Chinese horoscope can tell your Ying-Yang Five Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth) which are the key to find your lucky times and places. | | | To know your Five Elements is the way to live luckier, wealthier, healthier, happier and longer. | | | All Chinese horoscope and astrology systems come from Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar. |
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http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com
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| | Chinese Calendar |
| | Includes a discussion about the rules for the Chinese calendar | | | Contains a paper on "The mathematics of the Chinese calendar". | | | Chinese leap months, and the Chinese astronomical and civil calendars. |
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http://www.the-gallery-of-china.com/chinese-calendar.html
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| | Baby Gender Prediciton - Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion |
| | China Civil Calendar (only for east longitude 120 degree) | | | Press Submit button to perform Chinese lunar calendar conversion | | | Baby Gender Prediciton - Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion |
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http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/CLunarCal1.htm
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