From: Tak To Subject: Re: question on chinese calendar (was Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 24 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <36F8FA5A.31E2F960@alum.mit.edu.-> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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> <36f71942.35680365@news.yale.edu> X-Accept-Language: zh,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.nj.home.com 922286726 24.3.176.102 (Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:45:26 PDT) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 06:45:26 PDT Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang Cluster User wrote: > about the chinese calendar, one source (enc. brittanica) says > that the year starts in the lunar month that the sun enters > pisces. however, chinese new year celebrations are set two lunar > months from the winter solictice. this is what I observe from > practice, as well as the statements from almanacs. I think the above two are equivalent under the current way of placing the intercalary month (which in effect defines the year). Have you observed a difference? There might be small discrepancies due to the fact that the segments on the solar ecliptic -- as delineated by the 24 's (big5:¸`®ð) of which the winter solstice is one; as well as new moons are defined for the 120E meridian rather than the Greenwhich meridian. (I assume that the start of Pisces and the winter solstice are determined astronomically rather than simply by calendar. If not, there might be further discrepancies.) Tak ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tak To takto@alum.mit.edu.- --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the .- to get my real email addr