On this site, you can find a link to order the current year's calendar, a companion digital guide to important dates noted on the calendar, and archived calendars from previous years.įor questions or inquiries, please email Additionally, click the button below to join our mailing list (which we use very sparingly). Find todays lunar date on the Chinese Calendar(Nongli) of 200 years (1901-2100) and converter from Gregorian solar calendar to Chinese lunar calendar and. Our sincere gratitude goes out to the artists, writers, and community members who bring this project into being! The Chinese used a lunisolar calendar, but as the cycles of the Sun and the Moon are different, leap months had to be inserted regularly. Celebrating the Chinese Zodiac, commemoratives issued for the Lunar New Year are sought-after by collectors all over the world. Looking to traditional knowledges and rhythms is part of an effort to revive lost and latent elements of our roots among the branches of diaspora. The Chinese calendar has 12 or 13 lunar months per year, and is about 20 to 50 days behind the Gregorian calendar. One of the main functions of astronomy was for the purpose of timekeeping. To make these accessible in the context of dominant, colonized ways of time-keeping, we include corresponding Gregorian dates and accompanying interpretation. his years Chinese New Year is special because it falls into the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar. We have created two iterations of a printed calendar, for the years of the Water Tiger and Water Rabbit, that center the lunar months, solar terms, and festivals that comprise the traditional Chinese yearly cycle. This project is brought to life by collaborators of diverse Chinese descent living on Ohlone land, in San Francisco Tovaangar, in Los Angeles and Lënapehòkink, in Philadelphia and contributing artists from yet broader reaches of the Chinese diaspora. The Chinese Diaspora Lunar Calendar is a magical, radical tool for connecting with traditional Chinese, earth-based time-keeping. Thank you for your interest in our calendar! With a calendar dating from the third millennium BCE, the Chinese people have for thousands of years been building on ancient customs of New Year celebrations.
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