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  2. Chinese calendar - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Chinese calendar, dating back to the Han dynasty, is a lunisolar calendar that blends solar, lunar, and other cycles for social and agricultural purposes. . While modern China primarily uses the Gregorian calendar for official purposes, the traditional calendar remains culturally significa

  3. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [ 8 ]

  4. Chinese calendar correspondence table - Wikipedia

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    Relationship between the current Sexagenary cycle and Gregorian calendar. This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch.

  5. Sex selection - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Gender Calendar was buried in an imperial mausoleum with a history of over 300 years. It was calculated and deduced by the ancient Chinese based on Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Eight Diagrams and time. [59] This calendar is a simple chart who matches the day of conception of the future child with the age of the mother at the day of conception.

  6. Sexagenary cycle - Wikipedia

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    The Tibetan calendar also counts years using a 60-year cycle based on 12 animals and 5 elements, but while the first year of the Chinese cycle is always jiǎzǐ (the year of the Wood Rat), the first year of the Tibetan cycle is dīngmǎo (丁卯; year 4 on the Chinese cycle, year of the Fire Rabbit). [15]

  7. Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an ...

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    Experts believe the tomb was owned by a man who died in 736 AD at age 63, during the middle of the Tang dynasty, which ran from 618 to 907 AD.

  8. Category:Chinese calendars - Wikipedia

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    Observances set by the Chinese calendar (1 C, 22 P) S. ... Pages in category "Chinese calendars" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.

  9. Chongzhen calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Chongzhen calendar (Chinese: 崇禎曆; pinyin: Chóngzhēn lì; Wade–Giles: Ch‘ung 2-chên 1 Li 4) or Shixian calendar (Chinese: 時憲曆; pinyin: Shíxiàn lì; Wade–Giles: Shih 2 hsian 4 Li 4) was a historical edition of the lunisolar Chinese calendar from 1645 to 1913.