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Lunar New
Year is the
beginning of a new
year based on
lunar calendars or,
informally but more widely,
lunisolar calendars. Typically, both
types of calendar...
- A
lunisolar calendar is a
calendar in many cultures, that
combines monthly lunar cycles with the
solar year. As with all
calendars which divide the year...
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Chinese New
Year, or the
Spring Festival (see also § Names), is a
festival that
celebrates the
beginning of a new
year on the
traditional lunisolar Chinese...
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official lunisolar calendar.
Prior to the
Meiji period, the date of the ****anese New
Year had been
based on ****anese
versions of
lunisolar calendar (the...
- The
traditional Chinese calendar,
dating back to the Han dynasty, is a
lunisolar calendar that
blends solar, lunar, and
other cycles for
social and agricultural...
- leap
year (also
known as an
intercalary year or bis****tile
year) is a
calendar year that
contains an
additional day (or, in the case of a
lunisolar calendar...
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traditional festival celebrated on the
fifteenth day of the
first month in the
lunisolar Chinese calendar,
during the full moon.
Usually falling in
February or...
- (Gùonián),
meaning Agricultural Calendar New
Year,
emphasizing its
basis in the
agricultural lunisolar calendar. The term 春節 (Chūnjié), or
Spring Festival...
- Caesar, as a
reform of the
earlier Roman calendar,
which was
largely a
lunisolar one. It took
effect on 1
January 45 BC, by his edict. Caesar's calendar...
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solar year. The most
widely observed purely lunar calendar is the
Islamic calendar. A
purely lunar calendar is
distinguished from a
lunisolar calendar...
