Chinese calendar

The Chinese calendar, also known as the "agriculture calendar" (農曆/农历), is a lunisolar calendar (yinyangli). It was used until 1912 when the Gregorian calendar was adopted. This is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. It was developed in part from a lunar calendar (陰曆 yinli) and in part from a solar calendar (陽曆 yangli).^[1]

1. ↑ Hong Kong Observatory, "The Chinese Agricultural Calendar (Nongli)" Archived 2013-10-23 at the Wayback Machine; "The Chinese Calendar" at Calendopaedia.com; retrieved 2013-1-1.