Besides the date and month, what other elements does the calendar contain?

In addition to the date and month, the calendar also includes 24 solar terms and the zodiac.

The calendar in our country consists of solar calendar and lunar calendar. The Gregorian calendar (including the week of year, month and day) belongs to the solar calendar, the lunar calendar (including the solar terms of year, month and day) belongs to the lunar calendar, and the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar belong to the solar calendar. Leap year: a year divisible by 4 is a leap year, and a century year divisible by 400 is a leap year. The Gregorian calendar has 365 days in a normal year and 366 days in a leap year (97 out of 400 years is a leap year and 303 is a normal year), 28 days in a normal year and 29 days in a leap year. Twenty-four solar terms: In ancient China, the cycle of changing seasons was divided into twenty-four segments, and each segment (about 15 days) was called a solar term, which belonged to the solar calendar and played a guiding and forecasting role in people's production and life.