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Who invented the lunar calendar?

The development history of the lunar calendar:

The beginning of the lunar calendar (the three most respected lunar calendars) is called the yellow calendar, which is said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor, so it is called the "yellow calendar".

During the Yu period, a man named Wannian adapted the "Wannian Calendar" into the "Summer Calendar". 3. Great changes have taken place in the "taichu calendar Law" in the Western Han Dynasty. Heavenly stems and earthly branches, the first reform. Zu Chongzhi, the "great Li Ming" in the Southern Dynasties, wrote the second great reform and quoted the concept of precession to make the calculation more accurate? 5. In the Tang Dynasty, Bo and Cui Shanwei, a "five-tone yuan calendar", initiated the third political reform? 6. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Great Unified Calendar was written by Yang Zhongfu, and the most accurate length of the tropic year was 365.425 years. 7. in the yuan dynasty, Xu Heng and Guo Shoujing compiled the calendar in the fourth great reform? 8. In the Qing Dynasty, "Li Shixian" was also called Chongzhen Calendar (Chongzhen Calendar disappeared before the promulgation of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty changed its name to Li Shixian). It abolished "Pingqi" and adopted the fifth major reform of "Ding Qi". #. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi presided over the compilation of the New Calendar. Li Zhizao, Li Tianjing, Tang Ruowang and others participated in the compilation, and combined with western astronomical knowledge, compiled the Chongzhen Almanac? In the Ming Dynasty, Tang Ruowang revised the almanac of Chongzhen to 103, submitted it to the Qing court, and renamed it the almanac of Western New Law. Later, it was changed to "Li Shixian", which has been used ever since. *. So the lunar calendar was invented by China people. ? * References:

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