Chinese Calendar Format and Notations

Chinese Calendar Algorithm - Year 1901 to 2100

∟Chinese Calendar Format and Notations

This section describes the format and notations of Chinese calendars generated by the Chinese calendar program.

As you can see from usage examples included in the previous section, the text based calendar generated by ChineseCalendar.java uses these formatting rules:

The Chinese calendar date is presented next to the Gregorian calendar date as ##/## (Gregorian Date/Chinese Date).
Solar terms are marked as PT## (Principle Term) or ST## (Sectional Term).
Chinese new moon days are marked as CM## (Chinese Month).

For example, the January of year 2000 is presented as:

                    Jan
  Sun   Mon   Tue   Wed   Thu   Fri   Sat
                                     1/25
 2/26  3/27  4/28  5/29  ST 1  CM12  8/ 2
 9/ 3 10/ 4 11/ 5 12/ 6 13/ 7 14/ 8 15/ 9
16/10 17/11 18/12 19/13 20/14  PT 1 22/16
23/17 24/18 25/19 26/20 27/21 28/22 29/23
30/24 31/25

Notations used above are:

"1/25" - Indicates Gregorian calendar date 1 and Chinese calendar date 25.
"ST 1" - Indicates Sectional Term 1.
"CM12" - Indicates the first day of Chinese Month 12.
"PT 1" - Indicates Principle Term 1.

I have also created Chinese version of ChineseCalendar.java to generate Chinese calendars in Chinese characters. See https://www.herongyang.com/Year_zh and https://www.herongyang.com/Year_zh_TW/.

If you want to obtain a collection of Chinese calendars for 200 years from 1901 and 2100, you can run ChineseCalendar.java 200 times, one run per year. Or you can get them from other chapters of this book.