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It has a leap april so all together 13 months lasting from january 25 2020 to february 11 2021. Friday february 12 2021 is the lunar new year and the start of the year of the ox in the chinese zodiac.
Chinese calendar is a lunar calendar whereas gregorian calendar is a solar calendar.
What year is it on the chinese calendar. The 10th year is gui you the 11th year is jia xu restarting the celestial stem the 12th year is yi hai and the 13th year is bing zi restarting the celestial branch. Finally the 60th year is gui hai. According to chinese calendar 2020 is geng zi year.
It has a leap april so all together 13 months lasting from january 25 2020 to february 11 2021. The zodiac sign is rat. The traditional chinese calendar was developed between 771 and 476 bc during the spring and autumn period of the eastern zhou dynasty.
Before the zhou dynasty solar calendars were used. One version of the solar calendar is the five elements calendar 五行曆.
2019 is the chinese zodiac pig year. In gregorian calendar it is from feb. 05 2019 to jan.
Chinese calendar festivals holidays. Starting january 25 2020 it is the year of the rat as per the chinese calendar. 2021 is the year of the ox and the chinese new year 2021 falls on february 12.
Chinese calendar is a lunar calendar whereas gregorian calendar is a solar calendar. Here is a chinese calendar converter to convert chinese date to their corresponding english date and vice versa. Also get the corresponding chinese lunar calendar years and date for any english date.
Use the form below to enter the date to get converted. Friday february 12 2021 is the lunar new year and the start of the year of the ox in the chinese zodiac. The year of the ox begins on feb 12 2021.
The ox is one of 12 animals in the chinese zodiac shēngxiào or 生肖 which is based on a 12 year cycle. The year of the ox begins on chinese new year ending the year of the rat. The chinese zodiac is a classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12 year cycle.
The 12 year cycle is an approximation to the 11 85 year orbital period of jupiter. Originating from china the zodiac and its variations remain popular in many east asian and southeast asian countries such as japan south korea. There are two dates a chinese zodiac year could be said to start on.
Chinese new year day 1 of the lunar year which is somewhere in the period january 21 to february 20 start of spring day 1 of the solar year the first day of the first solar term in the traditional chinese solar calendar which falls in the period february 3 5.