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Does the lunar calendar mean solar or lunar?

The lunar calendar is the lunar calendar. Lunar calendar is the traditional calendar in China, also known as the lunar calendar, Chinese calendar, summer calendar, Han calendar, Chinese calendar and other names.

The Lunar Calendar is a yin and yang calendar, in which the average calendar month is equal to one lunar month, but leap months are set to make the average calendar year a regression year, and the twenty-four solar terms are set to reflect the changing characteristics of the seasons (the annual movement of the sun's point of direct sunlight), and so there is a component of the solar calendar.

The average year has twelve months, with a major month of thirty days and a minor month of twenty-nine days, and a yearly period of 354 or 355 days (which month of the year is major and which is minor varies from year to year). Since the number of days in each year is about eleven days short of the solar year, the method of setting up leap months is used to make the average number of days in these years exhaust.

The beginning of a month in the lunar calendar is divided according to the 24 solar terms. The month branches in the eight characters are arranged according to the 24 solar terms, and the month branches will change only when they reach the corresponding solar terms. According to this, the beginning of a year is the day of the first spring, so after the first spring, the year branch representing the genus will change.

For example, this year's spring time for February 3 23:34:01, only in February 3 23:34:01 after the birth of the baby, the genus will be chicken, this time before the birth of the monkey.