The zodiac includes twelve of the constellations that the ecliptic crosses. It actually crosses a thirteenth, Ophiuchus, but this constellation is not considered part of the zodiac (see above). Because the ecliptic lies in the general plane of the solar system, the Sun, Moon, and planets seem to move through the zodiacal constellations. A traditional mnemonic: The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins, And next' the Crab, the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales. The Scorpion, Archer, and the Goat, The Man who holds the Watering Pot ...

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In astronomy, the zodiac is the region of the sky close to the circle on which the orbital plane of our solar system intersects the celestial sphere. It includes the apparent path of the sun across the sky, known as the ecliptic, and the apparent paths of the naked eye planets which move in a zone just above and below this. It is a useful region of the sky to define, because it has practical implications for observations from the earth's surface. A bright object lying outside of the zodiacal region cannot be a planet. Polar observatories cannot easily observe the planets, because the ...

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The custom of worshipping the moon (called xi yue in Chinese) for both the Han and minority nationalities, can be traced as far back as the ancient Xia, and Shang Dynasties (2000 BCE-1066 BCE). In the Zhou Dynasty (1066 BCE-221 BCE), the people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon. The practice became very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) that people enjoyed and worshipped the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), however, people started making round moon cakes, as gifts to their relat ...

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Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival - Origin, Mid-Autumn Festival - Stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival - Hou Yi and Chang'e, Mid-Autumn Festival - The Hare - Jade Rabbit, Mid-Autumn Festival - Overthrow of Mongol rule, Mid-Autumn Festival - Vietnamese version, Mid-Autumn Festival - Dates

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Notes: Single days between two national holidays are taken as a bank holiday. This applies to May 4, which is a holiday each year. When a national holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday is taken as a holiday. † Traditional date of the founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu, in 660 BC. Veracity of this claim is often questioned. * Part of Golden Week Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays. 1948 - The following national holidays were introduced: New ...

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Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1

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Kigo are words or phrases that can be strongly associated with a particular season, or sometimes the association can be more subtle. Pumpkins (kabocha), for example, are a winter squash that is associated with the fall harvest. Furthermore, for people living in the United States, pumpkins are also associated with the Jack-o'-lanterns of Halloween. A little later in the year pumpkins are also associated with the pumpkin pies that are often part of the Thanksgiving Day ...

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The Chinese calendar year has nine main festivals, seven determined by the lunisolar calendar, and the other two derived from the solar agricultural calendar. (Note that the farmers actually used a solar calendar, and its twenty-four terms, to determine when to plant crops, due to the inaccuracy of the lunisolar traditional calendar. However, the traditional calendar has also come to be known as the agricultural calendar.) The two special holidays are the Tomb-Sweeping Festival (Qingming Festival and the Winter Solstice Festival, fall ...

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The Chinese calendar year has nine main festivals, seven determined by the lunisolar calendar, and the other two derived from the solar agricultural calendar. (Note that the farmers actually used a solar calendar, and its twenty-four terms, to determine when to plant crops, due to the inaccuracy of the lunisolar traditional calendar. However, the traditional calendar has also come to be known as the agricultural calendar.) The two special holidays are the Tomb-Sweeping Festival (Qingming Festival and the Winter Solstice Festival, fall ...

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Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues

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Ussher and other biblical scholars were able to achieve a fairly close correspondence between their chronologies, as they used much the same methodology to calculate key events recorded in the Bible. Their task was complicated by the fact that the Bible was compiled from different sources over several centuries with differing versions and lengthy chronological gaps, making it impossible to do a simple totaling of Biblical ages and dates. In his article on Ussher's calendar, John Barr (see references) has identified three distinct periods tha ...

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Since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, three different systems for counting years have or had been used in Japan: The Western Common Era (西暦, seireki) designation The Japanese era name (年号, nengō) based on the reign of the current emperor, the year 2005 being Heisei 17 The imperial year (皇紀, kōki) based on the mythical founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu in 660BCE Of these three, the first two are still in current use; the imperial calen ...

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Each day of the month has a semi-systematic but irregularly formed name: In the traditional calendar, the thirtieth was the last day of the month, and its traditional name, misoka, survives (although sanjunichi is far more common, and is the usual term). The last day of the year is ōmisoka (the big thirtieth day), and that term is still in use. ...

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One such image was taken by the Mars Global Surveyor on August 26, 1999 and shows the shadow at high resolution. This image was featured in a November 1, 1999 NASA press release. By examining maps of Mars (Map of area Map zoom) we see the shadow is centered at around 10.9°N 49.2°W. We can also look up the original image files at M04-03241 (red) and M04-03242 (blue), part of the gallery of MOC Wide-Angle Images, Region Lunae Palus, Subphase M04. The "image start time" was 03:26:13.01 UTC, the "line integration time" is 80.4800 ...

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Chinese months follow the phases of the moon. As a result, they do not accurately follow the seasons of the solar year. To assist farmers to help farmers decide when to plant or harvest crops, the drafters of the calendar put in 24 seasonal markers, which follow the solar year, and are called jiéqì 節氣. The term Jiéqì is usually translated as "Solar Terms" (lit. Nodes of Weather). Each node is the instant when the sun reaches one of twenty-four equally spaced points along the ecliptic, including the solstices and ...

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Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early History, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules, Chinese calendar - Year Markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal Years, Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues

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Chinese months follow the phases of the moon. As a result, they do not accurately follow the seasons of the solar year. To assist farmers to help farmers decide when to plant or harvest crops, the drafters of the calendar put in 24 seasonal markers, which follow the solar year, and are called jiéqì 節氣. The term Jiéqì is usually translated as "Solar Terms" (lit. Nodes of Weather). Each node is the instant when the sun reaches one of twenty-four equally spaced points along the ecliptic, including the solstices and ...

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Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues

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Japan is long from north to south, so the seasonal features vary from place to place. The sense of season in kigo is however based on Kyoto and its vicinity, since the classical literature of Japan developed mainly in this area, especially up to the early part of the Edo period (the early 17th century). [For a larger list of both Japanese and International kigo, see the List of kigo article.] [note: An asterisk (*) after the Japanese name for the kigo denotes an external link to a saijiki entry for the kigo with example haiku that is part o ...

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