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=== Full moon holidays (holidays on the fifteenth day) === The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month and was traditionally called the Yuan Xiao (元宵) or Shang Yuan Festival (上元節). The Zhong Yuan Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. The Xia Yuan Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the tenth month.
=== Celebrations of the twelfth month === The Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth month. It is the enlightenment day of Sakyamuni Buddha and in Vietnam is known as Lễ Vía Phật Thích Ca thành đạo. The Kitchen God Festival is celebrated on the twenty-third day of the twelfth month in northern regions of China and on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month in southern regions of China. Chinese New Year's Eve is also known as the Chuxi Festival and is celebrated on the evening of the last day of the traditional Chinese calendar. It is celebrated wherever the traditional Chinese calendar is observed.
=== Celebrations of solar-term holidays === The Qingming Festival (清明节) is celebrated on the fifteenth day after the Spring Equinox. The Dongzhi Festival (冬至) or the Winter Solstice is celebrated.
=== Religious holidays based on the Chinese calendar === East Asian Mahayana, Daoist, and some Cao Dai holidays and vegetarian observances are based on the traditional Chinese calendar.
=== Celebrations in Japan === Many of the above holidays of the traditional Chinese calendar are also celebrated in Japan, but since the Meiji era on the similarly numbered dates of the Gregorian calendar.
=== Double celebrations due to intercalary months === In the case when there is a corresponding intercalary month, the holidays may be celebrated twice. For example, in the hypothetical situation in which there is an additional intercalary seventh month, the Zhong Yuan Festival will be celebrated in the seventh month followed by another celebration in the intercalary seventh month. The next such occasion will be 2033, the first such since the calendar reform of 1645.
== Similar calendars == Like Chinese characters, variants of the Chinese calendar have been used in different parts of the Sinosphere throughout history: this includes Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Japan and Ryukyu, Mongolia, and elsewhere.
=== Outlying areas of China === Calendars of ethnic groups in mountains and plateaus of southwestern China and grasslands of northern China are based on their phenology and algorithms of traditional calendars of different periods, particularly the Tang and pre-Qin dynasties.
=== Non-Chinese areas === Korea, Vietnam, and the Ryukyu Islands adopted the Chinese calendar. In the respective regions, the Chinese calendar has been adapted into the Korean, Vietnamese, and Ryukyuan calendars, with the main difference from the Chinese calendar being the use of different meridians due to geography, leading to some astronomical events — and calendar events based on them — falling on different dates. The traditional Japanese calendar was also derived from the Chinese calendar (based on a Japanese meridian), but Japan abolished its official use in 1873 after Meiji Restoration reforms. Calendars in Mongolia and Tibet have absorbed elements of the traditional Chinese calendar but are not direct descendants of it.
== See also ==
Chinese calendar correspondence table Guo Shoujing, an astronomer tasked with calendar reform during the 13th century List of festivals in Asia Metonic cycle of 19 years, used to reckon leap years with intercalary months in the Hebrew and Babylonian calendars
== Notes ==
== References ==
=== Sources ===
== Further reading == Kai-Lung, Ho (2006). "The Political Power and the Mongolian Translation of the Chinese Calendar During the Yuan Dynasty". Central Asiatic Journal. 50 (1): 57–69. JSTOR 41928409.
== External links == Calendars Chinese months Gregorian-Lunar calendar years (1901–2100) Chinese calendar and holidays [dead link] Chinese calendar with Auspicious Events Chinese Calendar Online Calendar conversion 2000-year Chinese-Western calendar converter From 1 CE to 2100 CE. Useful for historical studies. To use, put the western year 年 month 月day 日in the bottom row and click on 執行. Conversion between Western and Chinese Calendar From 722 BCE to 2200 CE. Western-Chinese calendar converter [dead link] Rules Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar The Structure of the Chinese Calendar