Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - The lunar calendar in China is also called the lunar calendar. What was the name of the lunar calendar in ancient times? China used to have several calendars. What are their names?

The lunar calendar in China is also called the lunar calendar. What was the name of the lunar calendar in ancient times? China used to have several calendars. What are their names?

The traditional calendar of our country determines the month by the period of full moon and lack of moon, and makes the average length of a year close to the tropic of cancer by placing leap. Because this calendar arranges 24 solar terms to guide agricultural production activities, it is called lunar calendar, also known as China calendar and summer calendar, commonly known as lunar calendar. The ancients wrote articles based on the lunar calendar. In ancient China, there were mainly four chronologies: (1) the chronology of princes' accession to the throne. Count the years according to the years of the prince's reign. (2) the number of years and the method of years. There has been a title since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Since then, every emperor has to change the throne and mark the year with the year number. (3) chronology of major branches. (4) The year number should be both a stem and a branch. When the year is numbered, the emperor's year is put in front, and the cadres and branches are listed behind.