What do the national and lunar calendars mean?

The lunar calendar is often referred to as the lunar calendar, and the national calendar is the solar calendar.

The difference between the national calendar and the lunar calendar:

1, different calendars

The national calendar refers to the summer calendar traditionally used in China, but in fact, the national calendar belongs to the solar calendar; the lunar calendar is not purely lunar, but a kind of yin and yang calendar, based on the lunar calendar, the integration of the solar calendar components and become.

2, different sources

National Calendar: China from the Xinhai Revolution, that is, since the first year of the Republic of China adopted the solar calendar, so it is also known as the "national calendar". For the old Chinese calendar, it is also known as the "new calendar". 1949 officially stipulated the AD chronology.

Source of the calendar

The ancients used the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches as a carrier, the Heavenly Stems carry the way of Heaven, the Earthly Branches carry the way of Earth; in the Heavenly Elephant, the Earth is formed, in the people into the transport; the stem is like the Heavenly and the branch is like the Earth, all things are long in the ground, but the glory of the rise and fall of all things can not be separated from the Heaven. The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches contain a profound cosmic astrological code.

The ancients believed that all things in the world can be projected through its derivation. The combination of the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches formed the 60th solar term. The Stem and Branch Calendar is a calendar in which the 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches are paired together to form 60 different combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to mark the year, month, day, and hour.

The Lunar Calendar, whose basic calendar rules have been gradually perfected over many generations, has continued in its present form. The Lunar Calendar is based on the Summer Calendar (Lunar Calendar) and incorporates elements of the Solar Calendar to form a calendar. The lunar calendar is often incorrectly referred to as the lunisolar calendar, but in fact it belongs to the yin-yang calendar.