Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Happy New Year

The Chinese calendar is based of a lunisolar calendar.

This is normally done by having a year that corresponds to a cycle of seasons and a month which corresponds to a lunation so that the day of month indicates the moon phase and the month of year indicates the season. Also there is usually the additional requirement that the year has a whole number of months, in which case most years have 12 months and the other years have 13 months.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Today is Lunar New Year's Day in Korea!! Everything is shut down--Christian's TaeKwonDo was cancelled yesterday and gymnastics today. Most of the services on post are shut down since the Korean nationals run them.
We didn't see the SuperBowl--Michael ended up having to work, although they gave most of the soldiers the day off to watch. It started I think at 7:30 or 8:00am. It would've been fun to see the commercials!
Love the picture of you and Denise! Very cute!!! I love Christmas!! love, N