When did China start using the solar calendar?

1. It was the lunar calendar that came first. Looking at the history of calendars, all the countries of ancient cultures such as Egypt, Babylon, India, Greece, Rome and China initially used the lunar calendar.

In China, it had its own calendar as early as 4000 BC. Beginning with the Yellow Emperor's chronology, for a long period of history, China used the "stem and branch chronology", which combines the ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches in a cycle of 60 years, and the present (2018) is the 4715th year of the traditional Chinese calendar.

2, China began to adopt the solar calendar from 1912. In the year following the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution (1912), the then Republic of China government adopted the Gregorian calendar as the national calendar, and in terms of chronology, the AD chronology was parallel to the Republic of China chronology.

On September 27, 1949, after the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the newly established Chinese People's Republic adopted the Gregorian calendar and the Gregorian calendar, which are commonly used by most of the countries in the international community, as its calendar and year. But it did not abolish the lunar calendar, and today's traditional Chinese festivals are still based on the lunar calendar.

Expanded Information

The Republic of China (ROC) had two sets of calendars, a solar calendar and a lunar calendar. Originally, since the Xinhai Revolution, the new government in the south had been promoting the solar calendar and abolishing the lunar calendar. By the time the Northern Expedition was won in 1928, the warlords fell and the Kuomintang basically unified the north and the south, the slogan of abolishing the lunar calendar was even louder, and the senior leadership and the new faction almost regarded the lunar calendar and all the traditional festivals as a sign of feudalism and a stumbling block to the progress of the society, and resolutely demanded that they be swept away, and even issued the "red-topped document" to prohibit everyone from celebrating the festivals according to the lunar calendar. The government has even issued a "red-head document" forbidding everyone from celebrating festivals according to the lunar calendar, and all festivals are to be celebrated according to the solar calendar.

But the document to the document, the tradition to the tradition, a small number of new school on New Year's Day in the New Year's Day, most of the survivors are still in the first day of the first month of the New Year's Day, there are still a part of the friends are not new and not old, not offended on both sides of the New Year's Day is also the Spring Festival, Spring Festival is still the Spring Festival, a year to pay homage to the New Year twice, two times to sacrifice the ancestor, paste two sets of Spring Festival couplets, send two rounds of New Year's Eve, which is the era of Republic of China a major spectacle, and now no longer see.

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