Ancient Chinese 10,000-year calendar

Author: Lin Daoxin
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Spanning from the Five Emperors (around the early 26th century BC) to the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Based on the main thread of ancient Chinese chronology and the traditional (lunar calendar) of ancient China, supplemented with the corresponding Gregorian calendar and the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches calendar. Detailed for recent years and brief for distant ones; during periods of political turmoil with multiple regimes coexisting, each followed its own calendar. Days and months with differences are listed separately. The chronological records of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period vassal states, the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the Ten Kingdoms period, etc., are annotated under each respective year table. The Southern Ming and Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are included as supplementary tables following the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Readers can quickly and accurately check the Gregorian and Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches dates for every month and day in Chinese history.