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Argumentation on Whether the Date of Chinese Minor New Year Is 23rd or 24th December in Lunar Calendar — Time Differences on Chinese Minor New Year and Its Development Course
Zhuhan Zheng, Zixuan Wang
This paper examines the source and deduction process of the time of “Minor New Year” through poetry literature. According to the Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore Materials (《中国地方志民俗资料汇编》) [1], this paper summarizes the time of “Minor New Year” in various regions of China and the regions...
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The Impacts of Dialects on Time Variations of Chinese Minor New Year
Bingbing Li, Yuntong Liu
While “xiaonian (the Chinese minor new year)” is one of the important Chinese traditional festivals, its date is not nationally unified. This essay therefore summarized “xiaonian” time and the regions where the “xiaonian” time has evolved recorded in Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore...