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How to see the lunar calendar

The numbers written on the calendar are solar calendars, such as September 12. Chinese characters are written in the lunar calendar, such as the third day of July. Lunar calendar is a traditional calendar in China. According to the cycle of the moon phases, each moon phase changes to one month, and a tropical year is divided into 24 segments, forming 24 solar terms. By referring to the tropic year of the sun, leap months are set to adapt their average calendar year to the tropic year. The lunar calendar combines the lunar calendar with the solar calendar to form a method of combining yin and yang. The lunar calendar is also called summer calendar, lunar calendar, old calendar, middle calendar and lunar calendar. Because of the use of Xia Zheng, it was often called Li Xia. After 1970, Li Xia was renamed the lunar calendar.