From: Tak To Subject: Re: Calendar (Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars) Date: 25 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <36FA6235.7E66A81@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> <36f85cea.1078314464@news.yale.edu> <36F92889.C8987948@alum.mit.edu.-> <36f9693a.1971975@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 922378849 24.3.176.102 (Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:20:49 PDT) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:20:49 PDT Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang 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.) Tak ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tak To takto@alum.mit.edu.- --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the .- to get my real email addr