Free chinese new year 2009 software for windows

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.
2008 Calendar Chinese New Year performs date conversion between the Gregorian Solar Calendar and the Chinese Lunar Calendar.
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."

Chinese Chess 1.0 lends you the chance of playing such an interesting board game for free. Chinese Chess is an ancient game nearly 2000 years old, and played by millions of people the world over.

The rules of Chinese Chess differs slightly from the internationally recognized game of Chess making it easy for anyone who know Chess to learn how to play Chinese Chess. Rules are in game.

The Chinese Abacus Opera widget displays a traditional Chinese abacus on your desktop With Chinese Abacus widget you can do addition, division, multiplication, subtraction and even square root and cube root operations at high speed.
Moreover you can make calculations in both decimal and hexadecimal systems.
System requirements:
- Opera 9 or later

Happy New Year! Again! This Lunar New Year were kicking off with our BIGGEST and BEST ALTools desktop wallpaper collection yet! Inside youll find all 12 animals of the Lunar Zodiac and a bonus Lunar Zodiac wallpaper with them all in order. Thats 13 wallpapers! And each comes in 6 high-quality resolutions to fit everything from the smallest monitors to the largest professional monitors.
ALTools Lunar New Year is an wallpaper that brings zodiac pictures on your desktop.
Although the solar calendar is now the most common, the lunar calendar is still used all across Asia. While the Zodiac is based on when constellations are visible in the solar calendar, the Lunar Zodiac (Chinese Zodiac) is based on years. The cycle starts with the year of the mouse and ends with the year of the pig.
To find out your Lunar Zodiac animal sign, look below for the first Lunar New Years day before your birthday. e.g. If you were born on March 21st, 1972, then the first Lunar New Years day before your birthday is February 15th, 1972, and your sign is the mouse.