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Lunar calendar along with solar calendar in English

by SenseChef 2015. 1. 31.

In Asian countries such as Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, etc, lunar calendar has been widely used in their daily life. But this doesn't mean that they don't use a solar calendar.


The reason that Asian people use a lunar calendar more is its relationship with their cultivation of crop. Natural condition for crop is influenced much by movement or phase of moon. Therefore they need to know a lunar calendar showing lunar phase, showing how much moon's gravity influences to earth. 


Name of each lunar calendar date is written by chinese character. The more you know about chinese character, the more you can understand a lunar calendar.


Phase change or movement of moon on a lunar calendar.



Please find out lunar calendar in below.


You can choose the date of calendar or move to the certain date by clicking "<<", ">>". If you want to go back to today, just click "Back to Today"


This calendar shows both solar and lunar calendar at the same time.  1st low is solar calendar date while 2nd low is lunar calendar.




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Chinese character along with the lunar calendar date on the 2nd row is its name of date. If you know the Chinese character, you could easily understand what that date means.


Full moon date is 15 of lunar calendar. For example, you can see the full moon on 12.15( December  15) in lunar calendar. date.


Good day of you with lunar calendar !