What are August and March of the lunar calendar on 20 17? What is the lunar calendar?

1, 20 17 August and March are the twelfth day of the lunar leap.

2. Lunar calendar is one of the traditional calendars in China, also known as lunar calendar, ancient calendar, Han calendar, yellow calendar, summer calendar and old calendar.

3. In astronomy, it mainly refers to the calendar arranged according to the moon phase cycle, in which the moon orbits the earth once (taking the sun as a reference, the actual moon orbits more than once). ) is January, which is a calendar based on the moon. There are twelve calendar months in a year. In the process of calendar development and evolution, the emergence of 24 solar terms was used to guide agricultural production scientifically, and the lunar calendar (Han calendar) was formed. Although the lunar calendar and lunar calendar are commonly known as ancient calendar, Han calendar, summer calendar and old calendar, there are still differences between lunar calendar and lunar calendar (Han calendar). The traditional summer calendar (Han calendar) is actually a kind of yin-yang calendar.