Chinese New Year Snake. Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of the two calendars, using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese New Year dates. One scheme of continuously numbered Chinese-calendar years assigns 4709 to the year beginning, 2011, but this is not universally accepted; the calendar is traditionally cyclical, not continuously numbered. Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are sometimes numbered from the purported reign of the mythical Yellow Emperor in the 3rd millennium BCE. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars,
Genka calendar the late 7th century were likely recorded using the "Genka" calendar system. Genka calendar The , also known as "Yuan-chia li", was a Japanese lunisolar calendar ("genka reki"). It was used from 604 to 680. The calendar was created in 425 during the time of China's Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is named after (the translation of) the era in Chinese history. The "Genka-reki" system was brought to Japan from Korea by a Buddhist monk. The earliest record of this calendar in Japan is in the 10th month of the 10th year of the reign of Empress Suiko (602), during