Chinese has two calendars

@scheng1 (24649)
Singapore
February 3, 2016 7:27am CST
Many people do not realize that Chinese has two calendars in place. The Chinese New Year is based on the Chinese lunar calendar. Every 15th of the Chinese lunar calendar is a full moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival occurs on the 15th of the eighth month of Chinese lunar calendar. However, Chinese has a solar calendar as well. This solar calendar is also known as the Farmer’s calendars. The Chinese solar calendar tells the farmers when to plant, when to harvest, and the changes of the seasons. For example, 4 February of every year is the official start date of the Spring season. 21 or 22 of December of every year is the winter solstice, where the family gathers to eat Tung Yuan.
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youless
@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
4 Feb 16
I know Chinese lunar calendar but I don't use it at all. I just use the standard calendar like many countries. Even I don't celebrate birthdays according to Chinese lunar calendar. But Chinese lunar calendar.tells us when will be the traditional Chinese festivals, such as Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn Festival etc. That's all for me.
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scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
4 Feb 16
The solar calendar will tell you the time for Tomb-Sweeping day! Over here, many of us tend to pay attention to both, and some of us still get the calendar that contains Ten-Thousand Years calendar concept.
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Morning Girl
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
4 Feb 16
This is the first time i learned about this trivia. i think i am learning a lot from you.
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Morning Girl
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
5 Feb 16
@scheng1 Really!
scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
5 Feb 16
Sometimes it is confusing! Many Chinese are not even aware of this solar and lunar Calendar.
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Houjianxuan
@Jianxuan (6)
• Qingdao, China
31 Mar 16
@scheng1 Yes, as a Chinese, sometimes I felt confusing when I was a child. But now I've grown up, I will never confuse the solar and lunar calendar.
changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (16789)
• China
4 Feb 16
You have our canlendar at your finger-tips .There are only 354-355 days in our lunar canlendar year ,so it has intercalary month in which there are 13 months in a year .
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scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
4 Feb 16
The Chinese solar calendar does not have this problem. Li Chun almost always falls on the same day,and the Tomb-Sweeping day also falls on the same day every year.
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changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (16789)
• China
5 Feb 16
@scheng1 Yes, here the Twenty-four Solar Terms goes a long way towards our agricuture .