Chinese Calendar Animals 2000

Various chinese communities around the world also use this calendar.

Chinese calendar animals 2000. Chinese new year marks the beginning of the chinese calendar year, and each year is named after an animal. Year 2000 is also called the white dragon, because metal is equivalent to white in the five elements system. The current year (2015) is the year of the sheep, spanning from feb 15, 2015 to feb 7, 2016.

The calendar is adjusted to the length of the solar year by the addition of extra months at regular intervals. It is the same chinese calendar that is used today. Add it to your collection of short bedtime stories for kids.

After every 12 years the chinese calendar repeats itself. The chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar that is used to determine important festival dates,. Because this is the new moon day, the first day of the first chinese lunar month in the chinese lunar calendar system.

This tale of the chinese zodiac is an animal story based on the great race. The chinese lunar new year is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2600 bc, when the emperor huang ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac. It has the fifth position among the chinese zodiac animals.

The chinese zodiac is generally believed to have derived out of animal worship and started more than 2,000 years ago during the qin dynasty. Chinese zodiac (生肖shēngxiào) is based on a twelve year cycle, with each year of the lunar calendar in the cycle associated with an animal sign. As the symbol of chinese nation, dragon represents authority and good fortune.

The chinese astrological sign changes every lunar year, according to a cycle of 60 years. It is believed that the animals in the zodiac represents the characters of the people born under each zodiac sign. As chinese zodiac follows lunar calendar, in gregorian calendar, people born from february 5, 2000 to january 23, 2001 are metal dragon;