Is the yellow calendar the lunar calendar?

The Gregorian calendar is not a lunar calendar, which is earlier than the Gregorian calendar, and the Gregorian calendar is developed on the basis of the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is a calendar composed of the solar calendar, the lunar calendar and the official calendar, in addition to indicating the good or bad of a day.

An almanac is also called an almanac because it is bound into volumes. The main contents are the schedule of the 24 solar terms, the good and bad luck of each day, the luck of the zodiac and so on. According to legend, it was created by the Yellow Emperor, so it was called the Yellow Calendar.

In ancient times, the almanac issued by the government announced the year number, festivals and solar terms of the coming year, reflecting the objective laws of natural time changes and meteorological changes, guiding the agricultural production of working people, and also serving as the basis for the signing date of government documents.

Its origin first began in the almanac from the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it was called the Japanese book. In ancient times, the official position in charge of astronomical calendar was calculated and published in the name of the emperor, so it was also called imperial calendar, and its content guided farmers' farming opportunities, so it was also called peasant calendar.

After Qing Qianlong ascended the throne, he changed his name to Shi to avoid his name (Li Hong). Until the late Qing dynasty. Almanac refers to a reference book that arranges years, months, days and hours according to a certain calendar and indicates solar terms. Because the word "book" in general books is homophonic with the word "lose", it is also called Tongsheng because it is taboo. Therefore, people in Guangdong, Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking areas are mostly called Tong Sheng and some are called Ji Shu.

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Almanac existed in China at the latest during the Warring States Period as a guide book for people's lives. Taiding has a five-year period (1328), and there are more than three million official almanac books.

The ancient almanac was promulgated by the imperial court, such as Taishi Order in Qin and Han Dynasties, Taishi Bureau in Tang Dynasty, Si in Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qin in Ming and Qing Dynasties, etc. From the second year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty to the seventh year of Chongzhen (A.D. 1629 to 1634), the Calendar Bureau under the leadership of Xu Guangqi hired experts to compile the Calendar of Chongzhen.

When the Qing Dynasty was founded, missionaries sorted out the calendar of Chongzhen and presented it to the Qing emperor as a new book of western calendars. For a long time, studying and studying western astronomy at that time was an important task for astronomers. In the Qing dynasty, Qin promulgated the next year's yellow calendar on the first day of October every year.

Previously, the Qin Committee decided on the new calendar according to whether it was changed to yuan, and submitted it to the emperor, who sealed it by decree. Japanese teachers refer to the imperial imperial prescription book, hang up the hall number and publish the "general book" separately.

The yellow calendar promulgated by the Christian Taiping Heavenly Kingdom deleted all taboos and only marked solar terms and Sundays. The yellow calendar promulgated during Xuantong's reign in the Qing Dynasty also prohibits the publication of taboo, taboo, orientation, fleeting time and traditional age.

Since the founding of the Republic of China, there have been official encyclopedias and almanac, which have been studied and published by fortune tellers all over the country, or their copyrights have been sold to public and private institutions for printing.

After the founding of New China, 195 1 almanac was published by Xinhua Tong Bookstore, and 1975 almanac was jointly published by several publishers and institutions. Because the traditional almanac was regarded as feudal superstition during the Cultural Revolution, the relevant contents of tricks were deleted. After the reform and opening up, it gradually recovered. Most of the popular almanacs on the market are printed by themselves.

During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan Province, there was only "appropriateness" and no "taboo"; After the Republic of China took over Taiwan Province Province, it resumed the traditional interpretation of good and bad luck. At present, Taiwan Province Province prints about five or six million copies of the almanac every year, and more than 80% of them are gifts.

About two-thirds of the almanac and general books in Taiwan Province are claimed to have inherited the "Jichengtang" general books in Hong Chao and Fujian two hundred years ago; The source of Hong Kong's popularity is Shu Tong of Luo Chuanlie, the "Taoist Temple" in Guangdong.

At present, Hong Kong's almanac is privately printed, among which the almanac published by Cai Boli Zhenbu Church is the most famous.

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