From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) Subject: Re: Calendar (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 25 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <36fab35c.576929@news.yale.edu> References: <369E3BE1.5C45@sbu.ac.uk> <77li2j$qi0$1@whisper.globalserve.net> <369F52FE.2B6@sbu.ac.uk> <77rc86$auj$1@brokaw.wa.com> <36A444B3.F3B70F1C@alum.mit.edu.-> <7827sb$269$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A52D70.9E372DD2@alum.mit.edu.-> <36A556AB.9927BD29@montclair.edu> <36a63533.58309714@news.yale.edu> <7866ud$i9m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36cdb21e.883120019@news.wxs.nl> <36A7FCC8.79790A6B@earthlink.net> <36d77e23.1000882888@news.wxs.nl> <36a8d455.81661202@news.yale.edu> <78pl3c$84o@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b0dc2f.3434839@news.yale.edu> <78v30o$vl6@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b34d7c.60430113@news.yale.edu> <794e84$4iq@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <3744d12a.1873763068@news.wxs.nl> <796m95$eq2@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <375c0ea6.1954957123@news.wxs.nl> <79fo99$qkl@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f597c8.18429910@news.yale.edu> <7d546l$1ev@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f85cea.1078314464@news.yale.edu> <36F92889.C8987948@alum.mit.edu.-> <36f9693a.1971975@news.yale.edu> <36FA6235.7E66A81@alum.mit.edu.-> Organization: Yale University Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:20:49 GMT, Tak To wrote: >Tak To wrote: >TT> The Chinese lunisolar calendar is not based on the constellations >TT> but on 24 solar terms ( big5:¸`®ð¡^, of which the >TT> solstices and equinoxes are 4. > >Cluster User wrote: >CU> the equinoxes and solstices are not siderial based, they are >CU> solar. I don't know what the other "items" are. if they involve >CU> the sun being in a certain position relative to the stars, >CU> then they are siderial. those times will eventually change >CU> relative to the equinoxes and solstices. > >The other solar terms are solar as well. They are just further >divisions of between the equinoxes and solstices with a 15 degree >arc span. (This has been the definition since the last major >calendar reform in late 17th century. I don't know off hand >the definition before that.) > thank you. so if there are any discrepancies woth what is told of historically, this might be the casue. >Tak >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tak To takto@alum.mit.edu.- >--------------------------------------------------------------------^^ >[taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the .- to get my real email addr