Kung Hei Fat Choy!! Happy New Year to all my Chinese Friends!

[AsahinaKimi]

In Mandarin: xin nian kuai le!
Its the Year of the Tiger!
4708 is the current year.

Chinese New Year is the main holiday of the year for more than one quarter of the world’s population. Although the People’s Republic of China uses the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes, a special Chinese calendar is used for determining festivals. Various Chinese communities around the world also use this calendar.

The beginnings of the Chinese calendar can be traced back to the 14th century B.C.E. Legend has it that the Emperor Huangdi invented the calendar in 2637 B.C.E.

The Chinese calendar is based on exact astronomical observations of the longitude of the sun and the phases of the moon. This means that principles of modern science have had an impact on the Chinese calendar




http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html