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How many years does the calendar cycle?

60 years 1 jiazi, that is, a cycle of 60 years.

Calendars in the calendar are divided into lunar calendar, solar calendar and yin-yang calendar.

The solar calendar is also called the solar calendar, and its Gregorian calendar year is the tropic of cancer. At present, the Gregorian calendar, which is widely used in the world, and the dry calendar in China belong to this kind of solar calendar.

The lunar calendar is also called the lunar calendar, or lunar calendar. Its calendar month is a new moon, the calendar year is 12 new moons, the big moon is 30 days, and the small moon is 29 days. The Islamic calendar is one of the lunar calendars.

There are obvious differences between normal years and leap years in the lunar calendar, and the number of years is very different. Calendar month is the first month of the lunar calendar. Because there is a certain difference between 12 in the first lunar month and the tropic year (about 1 1 day), leap months are set in the lunar calendar to coordinate the relationship between the tropic year and the first lunar month, and there are leap months in thirteen months of the year. Generally, there are seven leap years every 19. It is different from the normal year with twelve moons in a year. Therefore, this calendar is consistent with the periodic movements of the moon and the earth around the sun. The lunar calendar in China is a kind of lunar calendar.