Holiday Calendar
The year 2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake, and the Lunisolar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, will begin on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Some say that the year of the snake will be a time of transformation for snakes, and that those who are adaptable and creative may have opportunities for improved finances and love. The lucky color for 2025 is blue, which is said to promote wisdom, clarity, and calmness.
The traditional Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar dating from the Han dynasty that combines solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes. While the Gregorian calendar has been adopted and adapted in various ways, and is generally the basis for China's standard civic purposes, aspects of the traditional lunisolar calendar remain, including the association of the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac in relation to months and years.
The traditional calendar used the sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system's mathematically repeating cycles of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Together with astronomical, horological, and phenologic observations, definitions, measurements, and predictions of years, months, and days were refined to an accurate standard. Astronomical phenomena and calculations emphasized especially the efforts to mathematically correlate the solar and lunar cycles from the perspective of the earth, which, however, are known to require some degree of numeric approximation or compromises. The general use of the Gregorian calendar includes the observing traditional lunisolar holidays.
中国历法是根据太阳和月球运转法则制定的，是世上唯一的！