2008 Calendar Chinese New Year 9.05.23

2008 Calendar Chinese New Year 9.05.23 is a useful program which performs date conversion between the Gregorian Solar Calendar and the Chinese Lunar Calendar.

The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each.

Major Features:

1. The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from earth. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides in your heart."
2. In the Lunar Calendar, a normal year has 12 months, and a leap year (run-nian) has 13 months, where the extra month is called a “leap month” (run-yue). For example, the leap month that follows immediately the 6-th lunar month is called the 6-th leap month. A (leap) month is either a short or long one, which has 29 or 30 days respectively. .
3. There are 10 gan’s and 12 zhi’s.
   The ganzhi labeling of the year, month, day and hour of a date is a member of the Cartesian product GxGxGxG, where G = {1,2,…,60}. For example, “jia-zi” is 1, “yi-chou” is 2, and so on. The ganzhi of the j-th leap month is the same as that of the j-th month.

Enhancements:  Added new Calendar type

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