Editing Lunisolar calendar (section)

===Chinese lunisolar calendar===
{{main|Chinese calendar}}[[File:Five Phases and Four Seasons Calendar.png|thumb|The Five Phases and Four Seasons of the traditional [[Chinese lunisolar calendar]], with English translation.]]

The [[Chinese calendar]] (華夏曆法) or [[Chinese lunisolar calendar]] is also called Agricultural Calendar [農曆; 农历; Nónglì; 'farming calendar'], or Yin Calendar [陰曆; 阴历; Yīnlì; 'yin calendar']), as movements of the sun (representing [[Yin Yang|Yang]]) and moon (representing Yin) are the references for the Chinese lunisolar calendar calculations.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} The Chinese lunisolar calendar is the origin of some variant calendars adopted by other neighboring countries, such as Vietnam and Korea. 

Together with astronomical, horological, and [[wikt:phenology|phenological]] observations, definitions, measurements, and predictions of years, months, and days were refined. Astronomical phenomena and calculations emphasized especially the efforts to mathematically correlate the solar and lunar cycles from the perspective of the earth,{{cn|date=March 2024}} which however are known to require some degree of numeric approximation or compromise. 

The earliest record of the Chinese lunisolar calendar was in the [[Zhou dynasty]] (1050&nbsp;BC – 771&nbsp;BC,  around 3000 years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Considering Chengzhou ("Completion of Zhou") and Wangcheng ("City of the King")  |last=Xu |first=Zhaofeng |journal=Chinese Archaeology |volume=8 |pages=172{{ndash}}177 |url=http://www.kaogu.cn/uploads/soft/Chinese%2520Archaeology/8/Considering%2520Chengzhou%2520('Completion%2520of%2520Zhou')%2520and%2520Wangcheng%2520('City%2520of%2520the%2520King').pdf |access-date=2023-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722225701/http://www.kaogu.cn/uploads/soft/Chinese%2520Archaeology/8/Considering%2520Chengzhou%2520('Completion%2520of%2520Zhou')%2520and%2520Wangcheng%2520('City%2520of%2520the%2520King').pdf |archive-date=2015-07-22 }}</ref> Throughout history, the Chinese lunisolar calendar had many variations and evolved with different dynasties with increasing accuracy, including the "six ancient calendars" in the [[Warring States period]], the Qin calendar in the [[Qin dynasty]], the Han calendar or the Taichu calendar in the [[Han dynasty]] and [[Tang dynasty]], the Shoushi calendar in the [[Yuan dynasty]], and the Daming calendar in the [[Ming dynasty]], etc. Starting in 1912, the western solar calendar is used together with the lunisolar calendar in China.

The most celebrated Chinese holidays, such as the [[Chinese New Year]] (華夏新年), [[Lantern Festival]] (元宵節), [[Mid-Autumn Festival]] (中秋節), and [[Dragon Boat Festival]] (端午節) are all based upon the [[Chinese lunisolar calendar]]. In addition, the popular [[Chinese zodiac]] is a classification scheme based on the [[Chinese calendar]] that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. The traditional calendar used the [[Sexagenary cycle|sexagenary]] cycle-based [[Chinese calendar correspondence table|''ganzhi'']] system's mathematically repeating cycles of [[Heavenly Stems]] and [[Earthly Branches]].{{cn|date=March 2024}}