Chinese Calendar Format and Notations

This section describes the format and notations of Chinese calendars generated by the Chinese calendar program.

As you can see from usage examples included in the previous section, the text based calendar generated by ChineseCalendar.java uses these formatting rules:

For example, the January of year 2000 is presented as:

                    Jan
  Sun   Mon   Tue   Wed   Thu   Fri   Sat
                                     1/25
 2/26  3/27  4/28  5/29  ST 1  CM12  8/ 2
 9/ 3 10/ 4 11/ 5 12/ 6 13/ 7 14/ 8 15/ 9
16/10 17/11 18/12 19/13 20/14  PT 1 22/16
23/17 24/18 25/19 26/20 27/21 28/22 29/23
30/24 31/25

Notations used above are:

I have also created Chinese version of ChineseCalendar.java to generate Chinese calendars in Chinese characters. See https://www.herongyang.com/Year_zh and https://www.herongyang.com/Year_zh_TW/.

If you want to obtain a collection of Chinese calendars for 200 years from 1901 and 2100, you can run ChineseCalendar.java 200 times, one run per year. Or you can get them from other chapters of this book.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Chinese Calendar Background Information

Chinese Calendar Algorithm and Program

 The Gregorian Calendar Algorithm

 The Chinese Calendar Algorithm

 Chinese Calendar Program in java

 How to Use Chinese Calendar Program

Chinese Calendar Format and Notations

 Corrections on the Astronomical Data

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1901 to 1910

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1911 to 1920

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1921 to 1930

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1931 to 1940

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1941 to 1950

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1951 to 1960

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1961 to 1970

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1971 to 1980

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1981 to 1990

 Chinese Calendars: Year 1991 to 2000

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2001 to 2010

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2011 to 2020

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2021 to 2030

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2031 to 2040

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2041 to 2050

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2051 to 2060

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2061 to 2070

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2071 to 2080

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2081 to 2090

 Chinese Calendars: Year 2091 to 2100

 References

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