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Therefore, the Chinese calendar needs 60 different animal names to make every single day unique for the case of leap lunar month.

For example, the Chinese calendar of the year 2006 has two 7th lunar months. sometimes, the Chinese Lunar Calendar needs to add an extra lunar month ( Leap Lunar Month) in the cycle to match the speed of the solar cycle. The Chinese calendar needs to assign a unique animal name for each day inside the lunar month. There are 12 animals, which are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, in the counting system. Later, Five Element scholars applied color animals on Year and Month cycles. In the beginning, color animal counts only for the day. The color animal is to count every single solar day. The solar counting system is to count the year and solar month for agriculture activities. The lunar counting system mainly is to count the lunar month. Second half of January or the first half of February.Ĭhinese calendar combines lunar, solar and color-animal (Stem-Branch) counting systems. As a result, Chinese New Year might fall in the The day of Winter Solstice is around December 23 in the western Gregorian calendar.

According to the Chinese Lunar calendar, the first lunar month is the second new moon after the lunar month contains Winter Solstice. The Chinese New Year's Day is the new moon day of the first lunar month. Chinese New Year's Day and Chinese Lunar Calendar