The Chinese Calendar and the Year Zero

Chinese Calendar

The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of both words and those of solar lunar calendar, used by ancient Chinese Empire and many other peoples of the Asia. Today, the Peoples Republic of China and most of East Asia officially adopt the Gregorian calendar, and its "ancestor", the Julian calendar, already known and used in China since the days of Marco Polo (DeMauro, pp. 4). The ancient Chinese calendar continues to be observed especially for the holidays.

The Chinese calendar is similar in many respects to the Jewish lunisolar calendar still show, ...