The origin of calendar

The real calendar came into being about 65,438+0,200 years ago in Yongzhenyuan Year (805) in Tang Shunzong, when the royal calendar was already used in the palace. At that time, the calendar was divided into twelve volumes, and the number of pages in each volume was equal to the number of days in each month. Write the month and date on each page and give it to the eunuch who served the emperor.

The first day is a page, recording the state, court events and the words and deeds of the emperor. The imperial calendar is divided into twelve volumes, each volume has the same number of pages as the number of days per month, and each page indicates the number of days and dates.

Later, when it was developed, the month and date, official support, festivals and other contents were written on it in advance, and notes were left in the blank space below, similar to the current desk calendar. At that time, the eunuch who served the emperor recorded the emperor's words and deeds in the blank space of the calendar. At the end of the month, after being verified by the emperor, it was sent to historians for the record, which was called calendar at that time. These calendars will be used as the basis for historians to compile national history in the future.

Later, many senior officials in the imperial court thought this kind of calendar was good, so they followed suit and compiled calendars for their own use. Some people also printed the branches of the almanac, monthly orders, solar terms and auspicious days of the zodiac on the calendar, leaving them blank for notes.

Extended data

The prototype of the calendar is a kind of "debt collection book". With the passage of time, the "debt collection book" gradually evolved into today's calendar. Calendar evolved from imperial calendar, monthly calendar and New Year pictures, and it is a work of art combining almanac and New Year pictures.

The China calendar was born in the 1940s. After the founding of New China, with the development of color printing technology, calendars have also been developed.

In the early days of the founding of New China, most news publishing units such as People's Publishing House and People's China Publishing House used "calendar" as a kind of publicity materials. The texts are in Chinese and English, and some are all in foreign languages. The contents of the pictures include construction achievement photography, motherland scenery, ancient landscape paintings and movie stills. , external distribution, internal rarely distributed. At that time, New Year pictures were distributed internally.

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