the chinese lunar new year fell on the gregorian calendar on january 21 this year.
the chinese lunar new year fell on the gregorian calendar on january 21 this year.
what day does the chinese lunar new year fall on the gregorian calendar this year?
january 21
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as mentioned above, the cycle first started to be used for indicating years during the han dynasty, but it also can be used to indicate earlier years retroactively. since it repeats, by itself it cannot specify a year without some other information, but it is frequently used with the chinese era name (年号; "niánhào") to specify a year. the year starts with the new year of whoever is using the calendar. in china, the cyclic year normally changes on the chinese lunar new year. in japan until recently it was the japanese lunar new year, which was sometimes different from the chinese; now it is january 1. so when calculating the cyclic year of a date in the gregorian year, one have to consider what their "new year" is. hence, the following calculation deals with the chinese dates "after" the lunar new year in that gregorian year; to find the corresponding sexagenary year in the dates before the lunar new year would require the gregorian year to be decreased by 1.
sexagenary cycle