Lunar Tibetan and Gregorian Calendars

The Tibetan calendar refers to the traditional calendar of the Tibetan people in China. Historical records show that before 100 B.C., the Tibetans had their own calendar, which calculated the day, month, and year based on the moon's waxing and waning. After a few hundred years, the Bengists (the original religion of Tibet) were able to accurately calculate the return time of the winter solstice and used it as the beginning of the year to form festivals and various rituals. In the 7th century A.D., two princesses of the Tang Dynasty, Wencheng and Jincheng, entered Tibet successively for marriage and alliance, bringing the calendar of the mainland. Since then, the Tibetan calendar and the Chinese calendar, the Indian calendar combined, to the yuan dynasty when the formation of the heavenly stem, earthly branches, five elements into one unique calendar. The existing history of the Tibetan calendar, the earliest appeared in the 13th century (Yuan Dynasty), to the 19th century, the Tibetan calendar has been perfected.

The Tibetan calendar is a calendar created by the Tibetan people, which has a history of more than 1,000 years (in the Sui and Tang dynasties). The Tibetan calendar is the yin and yang calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, winter, spring, summer and autumn for the order of 354 days a year. 12 months to the c month for the first year (the first year with today's "Summer Calendar" the same), to the moon cycle for a month. The moon cycle is one month. The big month is 30 days long and the small month is 29 days long. A leap month is used to adjust the relationship between the month and the season. The intercalary time, again, is different from the lunar calendar. Due to the influence of the Chinese calendar, since the 9th century, the Tibetan calendar has also been using the stem and branch chronology, the difference is that the five elements instead of the ten stems: A and B for wood, C and D for fire, E and H for earth, G and S for gold, N and D for water; the twelve signs of the zodiac instead of the twelve branches of the earth, i.e., Zi for the rat, ugly for the ox ...... and so on. For example, the year of the first year of the lunar calendar, the Tibetan calendar is called the year of the wood rat. Stem and branch 60 years a cycle, the Tibetan calendar is called "Rao Qiong", and the mainland "sixty flowers Azi" is similar, which reflects the origin of the Chinese and Tibetan calendars. In addition, the Tibetan calendar also has 24 solar terms, and makes medium- and long-term weather forecasts for the Tibetan region, as well as forecasts for the movements of the five planets and solar and lunar eclipses. The Tibetan calendar has three main elements, including the physical calendar inherent in Tibetan culture, the wheel of time calendar introduced from India, and the time constitutional calendar introduced by the Chinese.

The Tibetan New Year 2009 falls on February 25th of the Gregorian calendar, exactly one month after the Chinese New Year. The Tibetan New Year and Chinese New Year dates do not have a specific pattern of consistency or inconsistency, and their relationship is no more than three situations: the same day, a day or a month apart. 2010 Tibetan New Year (February 14) and the Chinese New Year, which also happens to be Valentine's Day in the West, falls on the same day.

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The calendar can be divided into three types: the solar calendar The solar calendar is based on the annual apparent motion of the sun. The solar calendar is based on the sun's annual visual motion cycle (i.e., the year of return, equal to 365.2422 days) for a year, a year is divided into 12 months, which has nothing to do with the movement of the moon. According to the date of the solar calendar, one can know the changes of the four seasons of cold and hot, but it cannot show the moon's roundness, which is inconvenient for those who need to know the changes of the tides according to the moon's phase. The lunar calendar, on the other hand, takes the moon's cycle of waxing and waning (i.e., the lunar month, equal to 29.5306 days) as one month, and accumulates 12 months as one year. It does not take into account the sun's annual visual movement law at all, thus the date of the lunar calendar cannot show the four seasons of warmth and coldness. The practical value of this calendar is so small that it has been discarded except in Islam. China's lunar calendar, it Yang Yang calendar of the long to avoid the short of the lunar calendar, take the lunar month for the month, the solar year for the year, that is, the lunar month for the month, to return to the year as the average length of a year. Therefore, the Lunar Calendar is a solar calendar with the addition of the lunar calendar, and a lunar calendar with the solar calendar as a factor. According to the date of the lunar calendar, one can know the rise and fall of the tides and basically grasp the change of seasons. The lunar calendar is the original creation of our country, which shines with the light of wisdom of our ancestors.

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The lunar calendar is a traditional calendar that has long been used in China. The lunar calendar is a traditional calendar used in China for a long time, which arranges the 24 solar terms to guide agricultural production activities, so it is called the lunar calendar. In fact, the lunar calendar is different from the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is different from the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar uses the lunar cycle to set the month, and uses intercalary to make the average length of the year close to the solar return year, and has names such as the summer calendar and the Chinese calendar. The lunar calendar is currently used in parallel with the Gregorian calendar in China, and although it is commonly referred to as the "lunar calendar", it is actually a type of yin and yang calendar, not a lunar calendar that is based on the cycle of the phases of the moon.

Except for the Qingming Festival, which is based on the "Qingming" of the 24 solar terms, other traditional Chinese festivals are based on the lunisolar calendar, and to this day, most of the countries and peoples in the Chinese character cultural circle still celebrate traditional festivals in the lunar calendar, such as the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Chung Yeung Festival, among others.

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The solar calendar is now the international calendar, also known as the Gregorian calendar, commonly known as the solar calendar; system to the Earth around the sun for a year, for the Western countries in general, so also known as the "Western calendar". After the Xinhai Revolution, China adopted the solar calendar since the first year of the Republic of China, so it is also known as the "National Calendar". In 1949, the official provisions of the AD calendar.