The year of the tiger and the Chinese Lunar New Year
Posted by netizen on February 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Below is an updated version of a column that I wrote last year but forgot to reproduce here.
Let’s start with a clarification of terms. What we call the Lunar New Year is not really based on a lunar calendar (based on cycles of the moon phase) but on the Chinese lunisolar calendar which intercalates...
Source: House on a hill
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