Chinese Calendar
Chinese Calendar posts explain the lunisolar system that still governs holidays and birthdays for a large part of the population. Articles cover how leap months are inserted to keep the lunar year in step with the seasons, why Chinese New Year drifts between late January and mid February, the twenty-four solar terms that mark the agricultural year, the sexagenary cycle of the ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches, and what your zodiac animal really represents inside that cycle. There is also a piece on why the year of the dragon is consistently a baby boom.
The Chinese pregnancy calendar, also called the Chinese
