"Chinese New Year's Eve're gone!" Many netizens have discovered this matter, and some people have ridiculed it, "Last year's wish Chinese New Year's Eve no overtime, this year it will be realized!" ”
Some netizens also said, "Seeing that the holiday starts from twenty-nine, I thought it was an extra day." ”
The first day of the Spring Festival holiday is January 31, 2022, and the calendar reads "Chinese New Year's Eve".
Where did the "Chinese New Year's Eve" go?
The Spring Festival is the most important festival in the mainland, especially the day of "Chinese New Year's Eve", which represents the resignation of the old and the welcome of the new. So, where did this year's "Chinese New Year's Eve" go?
Speaking of which, this is actually related to the ancient calendar of the mainland. We all know that the ancient calendar also has another name called "perpetual calendar", and according to folk legends, its origin is related to a young man called "Ten Thousand Years".
In ancient times, this young man named Wannian went to the mountains to cut firewood in a very hot weather, the weather was really too hot, so Wannian found a shade, sat down and wanted to rest, at this time, Wannian found that with the passage of time, that is, the movement of the sun in the sky, the shadow of the tree would change with it.
Wannian found this phenomenon very interesting, so he was inspired to invent an instrument that could calculate time with the changes of the sun, and under the continuous improvement, it was even possible to calculate the month, so that the "perpetual calendar" appeared, from which we can see that in fact, the ancient calendar is deduced according to the sun and moon in the sky.
Nowadays, the "lunar calendar" we use is the most commonly used one of the ancient calendars, of course, although there are legends about "ten thousand years" that people have fictionalized, but they also represent the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient ancestors of the mainland to observe astronomical movements.
What does this have to do with the absence of a "Chinese New Year's Eve" this year?
This is because in fact, the most accurate time of each month is not 30 days, but 29.53 days, but it is impossible to calculate the month with days that are not integers, so there is a "big and small month", the large month is 30 days, and the small month is 29 days.
According to the ancient calendar, this year's Wax Moon is exactly the "Small Moon", so the Small Moon has only 29 days, so this year's "Chinese New Year's Eve" is also the twenty-ninth day of the Wax Moon.
In history, have there ever been "Chinese New Year's Eve" that disappeared?
According to the calendar, it is not uncommon for this kind of Chinese New Year's Eve not to be "Chinese New Year's Eve", the last year without "Chinese New Year's Eve" was in 2016, and after the end of this year, from 2025 to 2029, it will be for 5 consecutive years, Chinese New Year's Eve will be on the 29th day of the Waxing Moon.
This situation is very normal, and it has nothing to do with the so-called "ominous omen", including the ancients are well aware of this principle, as long as it is the last day of this year's lunar calendar, then it is "Chinese New Year's Eve".
Lunar or solar calendar, which is more accurate?
I believe that many friends have heard such a saying: compared with the solar calendar, the lunar calendar is the most accurate, including now, many people have birthdays, but also will pass the lunar calendar, then, is this statement correct?
What is the "solar calendar"? It refers to the solar calendar, and each month date will correspond to the ecliptic position of the sun, so there will be four seasons of the year, and the year will be divided into 12 months.
Like the lunar calendar, the solar calendar also has a lot of "exquisite", for example, under normal circumstances, a year is 365 days, but every 4 years, there will be a "leap year", and in the "leap year", the time of the year becomes 366 days.
Therefore, in fact, the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, there is no one more accurate, they all have their own scientific basis, everyone according to personal preferences, choose their favorite calendar can be.
Of course, from the perspective of international popularity, the current common solar calendar, that is, the "Gregorian calendar", so there will be some elderly people, because they are accustomed to the lunar calendar, they will think that the solar calendar is "foreigner's thing" and think that it is inaccurate. In fact, in ancient mainland china, there was also a solar calendar, but compared with the lunar calendar, there were fewer people using it.
When did the mainland start using the solar calendar?
The answer was after the Xinhai Revolution. Because since then, many titles and systems of the Qing Dynasty have been abolished, so in order to be in line with the "international standards", the solar calendar has also begun to be implemented on the mainland and has been used to this day.
Of course, many traditional festivals, nowadays we also use the lunar calendar calculation, such as the Spring Festival, mid-autumn festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., and in addition to the mainland, many other countries, also have their own calendar, also used with the solar calendar, but in general, the world is still the universal solar calendar.
So, do you think the solar calendar is accurate or the lunar calendar is accurate? Welcome to leave a message to talk about it.