• Calendared system synthesizing the lunar calendar and solar calendar; the system not only emphasizes the waxing and waning of the moon, but also the solar terms of summer and winter. The time that the moon takes to circle the earth is one month. Also, a set leap month to make the average days of a year is consistent with the solar year. Therefore, this calendar is almost the same with phases of the moon as well as the anniversary movement of the sun. The Chinese lunar calendar is of the...

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• The 7th day of the 1st lunar month; it is said in "The Book of Divining" by Dongfang Shuo, that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th days of the 1st lunar month are the days of divination for chickens, dogs, pigs, goats, oxen and horses respectively. The 7th day is for people; if this day is sunny and bright, the year will be a good one for people.

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• 1. A lunar year in which the last month has 29 days.
• 2. On the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
• 3. A year of little fruits and slow growing of bamboo.

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• greater month—a solar month of 31 days; a lunar month of 30 days

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• early spring; first spring month (i.e. the first month of the lunar year)

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