The coolest thing about the Chinese calendar is in the long term it's more astronomically accurate than the Western Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar gets out of sync with Earth's revolution around the sun by one day per 3200 year. So after half a million years July will switch up summer and winter. But the Chinese calendar has auto-syncing functionality built in so it will remain perfectly accurate until the sun explodes in 5 billion years.
I'm looking forward to someone 5 billion years from now tearing off a page on their calendar and seeing, “Your lucky star is Sol, which explodes today. Good day for spicy food.”
Please keep this transitional calendar !! It’s so valuable cultural things make us so special than western culture 😍 I would love to teach my grandchildren how to read it 🥰
I grew up with these calendars. After an absence of 2 decades, I happened to be walking by a print shop in Central on my last day of vacation. I saw these calendars available for sale and promptly bought one and stuffed it in my suitcase at the airport. I see a little piece of hong kong every day when I tear off a sheet. My mom uses the torn off sheets to write notes, shopping lists, and random stuff, so its not wasted. Never knew what all that stuff on the bottom was about. Thank you for the video. And the hat, and the bag, and all that sweet swag!
We tear off the page the night before, so in the morning, you have the correct date :D Once in a while we unscrew the back plate to remove the ragged edges, then put the plate back on!
Dude! Back in my day, I counted it as a privilege. I could hardly wait to tear one. There were times I tore it before bed so no one could the next day.
There is still a lot of missing information. For example, the first day of the month in Lunar Calendar is always "New Moon", while the fifteenth day is always "Full Moon". Every second month is a short month (29 days) and long month (30 days), therefore, 6 x 29 + 6 x 30 = 354 days, it is 11 days short from Gregorian Calendar (365 days per year or 1 circle around the sun). If it continues the same pattern without adjustment, the Lunar Calendar will getting behind. Therefore, every once a while, there is a leap month (extract month), thus you always find the Lunar New Year is always between mid-January to mid-February but never on the same day each year.
I'm Turkish and we had our own version with prayer times, baby names, recipes, proverbs etc. Tearing off a piece brings so much nostalgia. Our Mediterranean shops would usually have these out throughout the year for free. Just looking at this makes we want to collect all the various tear off calendars in existence.
I think it's a cultural thing, I guess Chinese culture likes a multifunctional tools, from one cleaver for all cooking works, chopsticks for picking, tearing, and stirring food, to calendar containing everything from date to when is a good day for marriage, and a chat app that does everything under the sun (in time I guess...)
My Thai colleague still use this to find an auspicious date and time to move her stuff to new desk when she got promoted 😁. I found it very fun. One time I even asked to see her calendar to find a good/ auspicious time to talk with my boss 🤣
@@Goldthread Nothing was certain with my boss at the time, but one thing for sure it is a ‘good’ time. 🙈 yep, knowing this gave me encouragement and moral support ✌🏻
I grew up with these green and red calendars bc my family is Chinese, but never understood anything but the month, day & year. I really wish someone can translate it to an English version. I would be very interested in knowing more about my daily almanac things.
I lived in the American South as a young child, and the Vietnamese market would give us one yearly; it was bilingual, mainly in Vietnamese but also in Chinese, so we were able to read its contents. I live in California now and I do not think they give these almanacs away much anymore. Sometimes large retail businesses that cater to restaurants and smaller businesses give them away, it seems, but they definitely are not common giveaways anymore. Even the regular calendars Asian markets do not give out much nowadays. Many religious goods shops, bookstores, and stalls in Chinatown and flea markets/swap meets do still sell them.
My grandma and my aunt always use this kind of calendar when I was kid... I always take it to make a paper plane or boat... Now, I use monthly calendar instead tear off daily calendar...
For whose who are aware of the application of the Chinese time keeping tradition, the year 2020 is really the year 101,155,938 of the last known synchronization with the planetary system.
You can find these kind of calendar in most of East and Southeast Asia. Whereever there is signicant Chinese community. There is also local variations.
I once saw an interview with a large construction company's lead engineer in China said they have to follow these calendars because the Feng Shui, despite not scientific, is semi accurate with the weather forecast (mainly in rain and cloud).
since a kid I get used to tear the calendar, for more exact detail things my grandpa would see ming-lik or tong-sing every year, he would buy it. even after my granpa passed away, I still read the calender, for example for cutting hair day for this january 2021 would be in good day at 18th and 30th
The new ones have text for example: good for offering sacrifice to goals and bad for netting. But doesn't mean I can't use a rod for fishing. The large calendars have colourful design. Last year, there's was picture of pig eating honey glazed ham, like okay promoting self cannibalism. Upcoming Ox year is challenging for those born in year of the Ram. The calendars are accurate in predicting blue moon where there's 2 moon in the month. Still fascinating video.
Thank you so much for such a meaningful and educational video. I love to see more such video that educate us more about the traditional Chinese culture that many younger generations don't understand.
My mom still bought those tearaway Calendar and hang them on my family home's wall. And yes they included all those things. A bit of ironic since she's the only who could read them.
My dad loves these tear off Chinese calendars. No wonder he loved them because he is a gardener, makes sense right? lol My mum loves to keep certain pages for special dates like our birth or wedding days. My mum would always referred to them for choosing wedding days. I always wondered how the heck she know what is a good day? Now it makes sense, what all that text means. I never even took notice until now that it meant something. I probably should go back to learn Chinese.
This is why we should call it the Chinese New Year instead of the lunar New Year, because the method to determine the date of the New Year is the traditional Chinese calendar instead of the lunar calendar.
Wow. I basically ignore the calendar at home. It's like a must calender to have at home yet no one uses it. The last few years the days aren't even ripped. It's a calender full of pages in December when there should only be a few pages instead
sometimes you need to ask the cashier in the chinese store to buy it They put that product away, and keep it as a bonus gift to long term customers sometimes. Yeah, i grew up in china but don't know why they would do that. Probably it's too cheap to be made profitable.
I loved this documentary, it was very informative and fun. I have been collecting these for my own collage work each year and always wondered what all the characters were. I thought they were advertisements, lol!
I use personal chinese metaphysics (fengshui for personal) expert to do all calculations for me. She calculated from my born day as detail as hours and minutes.
When the old man showed the Chinese calendar on his hands, mentioned what's the recipe on the Chinese calendar, I realized that Chinese calendar exactly same as my house's Chinese calendar. I'm tearing off the pages of the calendar every day!
My mom hangs all these calendars she gets from the Asian markets. I wanna throw them out but she wants to keep them even though they're over 5 years old!
I love those calenders. I would always admire it as a kid and ask questions, when my grandparents were still with me. Now however, I can't read them cause i can't read Chinese (now, i have to contend with reading the tarot)
The prediction on future of Chinese almanac not just gambling without calculation,the statement on how the weather and agricultural mostly come true,how or when the cloud pouring rain are predictable
I have this calendar at home. I use it everyday for auspicious times. Also which animal sign are dominant that day is important. There is also good luck numbers. I don't use it that much. Something similar in the west is the farmers almanac. All Farmers go by the lunar cycle it is more accurate for plantings, growing schedule and seasons.
we young generation use handphone to set alarm and set notification and at the end we hate annoying notification and delete it and regret it after that alarm didn't notify Dang ...
Thanks for this I was always wondering why my mom was always consulting this calendar. But the thing is she lives in S F not China so it might not be accurate.
SO what did everyone miss here? It's not what's in the calendar. It's the calendar's ability to count to 60 years. In the Gregorian calendar we think in terms of century. In the Chinese calendar it's in terms of 60 years. 60 seconds. 60 minutes. It gives a sense of punctuality.
This makes me link to Bible Genesis .14: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years...
So many people mistakenly call the Chinese calendar l lunar calendar. Glad you set them straight! You should make a video on how the Chinese New Year is determine each year. It’s the most important day on the Chinese calendar!
Really?? I would have thought it would be the same. How accurate are they then if that is so? We always had one coming up but I never had two I could compare.
The Chinese calendar is basically a Farmers’ Almanac. Is there something similar in your culture to predict weather patterns and harvests?
Here in USA we have Farmers almanac.
www.farmersalmanac.com/
yep those are almanac, chinese calender was another whole system of cycle, almanac are just based on it for modern usage
This calander usefull for me just for the date,day and full moon.
In our Khasi Culture, we also have this type of almanac. It is mainly used to predict the moon cycles and when to sow and harvest.
In java, we have pranoto mongso
The coolest thing about the Chinese calendar is in the long term it's more astronomically accurate than the Western Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar gets out of sync with Earth's revolution around the sun by one day per 3200 year. So after half a million years July will switch up summer and winter. But the Chinese calendar has auto-syncing functionality built in so it will remain perfectly accurate until the sun explodes in 5 billion years.
Is this why in the US we are seeing winter up until May and summer ending sooner?
@@BestMods168 yeap
I'm looking forward to someone 5 billion years from now tearing off a page on their calendar and seeing, “Your lucky star is Sol, which explodes today. Good day for spicy food.”
@@BestMods168 you got it
@@BestMods168 although part of that is due to climate change, it is also a fault of the calendar system slowly going out of sync
Not only farmers, but I also use Chinese calendars and I am proud of it. 😁 and I found it is very accurate.
Please keep this transitional calendar !! It’s so valuable cultural things make us so special than western culture 😍 I would love to teach my grandchildren how to read it 🥰
I grew up with these calendars. After an absence of 2 decades, I happened to be walking by a print shop in Central on my last day of vacation. I saw these calendars available for sale and promptly bought one and stuffed it in my suitcase at the airport.
I see a little piece of hong kong every day when I tear off a sheet. My mom uses the torn off sheets to write notes, shopping lists, and random stuff, so its not wasted.
Never knew what all that stuff on the bottom was about.
Thank you for the video. And the hat, and the bag, and all that sweet swag!
I'm the one in my family that does the tearing! I feel like I have to do it every morning 😅
So, when it gets all ragged at the top, do you ever take a blade and trim it clean, or leave it all ragged?
@@Kwijiboi I honestly try to take as much off at the top as possible lolol but never tried to trim it clean..... Must try haha
@@egghead9457 I happen to have a sharp blade on hand and had considered it before. 😂
We tear off the page the night before, so in the morning, you have the correct date :D Once in a while we unscrew the back plate to remove the ragged edges, then put the plate back on!
Dude! Back in my day, I counted it as a privilege. I could hardly wait to tear one. There were times I tore it before bed so no one could the next day.
There is still a lot of missing information. For example, the first day of the month in Lunar Calendar is always "New Moon", while the fifteenth day is always "Full Moon".
Every second month is a short month (29 days) and long month (30 days), therefore, 6 x 29 + 6 x 30 = 354 days, it is 11 days short from Gregorian Calendar (365 days per year or 1 circle around the sun). If it continues the same pattern without adjustment, the Lunar Calendar will getting behind.
Therefore, every once a while, there is a leap month (extract month), thus you always find the Lunar New Year is always between mid-January to mid-February but never on the same day each year.
And it resets itself every 19 years.
I'm Turkish and we had our own version with prayer times, baby names, recipes, proverbs etc.
Tearing off a piece brings so much nostalgia. Our Mediterranean shops would usually have these out throughout the year for free. Just looking at this makes we want to collect all the various tear off calendars in existence.
It's like the ancient take on wechat - everything you need is in there.
I finally understand where wechat moms get their superstitious gimmicks from
I think it's a cultural thing, I guess Chinese culture likes a multifunctional tools, from one cleaver for all cooking works, chopsticks for picking, tearing, and stirring food, to calendar containing everything from date to when is a good day for marriage, and a chat app that does everything under the sun (in time I guess...)
We used to torn off papers for bones at dinner, anyone else? Haha!
My grandparents used to do that every morning for breakfast!
Mu dad used it to make origami for me! Paper planes, boats.. memories!
I used it as paper for drawing
I used to tell my parents to not tear and let me tear it every day haha
Vicky Lee you are not alone. I even use my mail for bones
My Thai colleague still use this to find an auspicious date and time to move her stuff to new desk when she got promoted 😁. I found it very fun. One time I even asked to see her calendar to find a good/ auspicious time to talk with my boss 🤣
Lol did it work??
@@Goldthread Nothing was certain with my boss at the time, but one thing for sure it is a ‘good’ time. 🙈 yep, knowing this gave me encouragement and moral support ✌🏻
I grew up with these green and red calendars bc my family is Chinese, but never understood anything but the month, day & year. I really wish someone can translate it to an English version. I would be very interested in knowing more about my daily almanac things.
Those pages would look even more overwhelming in Latin alphabet lol. Not dislexia friendly
You can always use your camera on Google and it will translate it. I do that everyday lol.
I lived in the American South as a young child, and the Vietnamese market would give us one yearly; it was bilingual, mainly in Vietnamese but also in Chinese, so we were able to read its contents.
I live in California now and I do not think they give these almanacs away much anymore. Sometimes large retail businesses that cater to restaurants and smaller businesses give them away, it seems, but they definitely are not common giveaways anymore. Even the regular calendars Asian markets do not give out much nowadays.
Many religious goods shops, bookstores, and stalls in Chinatown and flea markets/swap meets do still sell them.
i still these calendars at home yes!!! keep the tradition alive 🔥
I am amazed these calendars are still around. It's so nostalgic to see them, brings me back to my childhood.
Can we get Part 2 that explains more? Still don't know what all the bottom stuff means and how to actually interpret and use it.
This make so much sense that farmer use this. Because in Chinese it’s call 农儮
seems legit
i can't believe it took me 22 years to realize this
Fisherman use this to see the tide.
@@madeofcastiron not too late, now you can start farming.😀
There are drawing on some occasional day on the calender, i love to see these drawing, so authentic
My grandma and my aunt always use this kind of calendar when I was kid... I always take it to make a paper plane or boat...
Now, I use monthly calendar instead tear off daily calendar...
The Chinese calendar, which includes both solar and lunar calendar systems, is very complicated but very accurate.
For whose who are aware of the application of the Chinese time keeping tradition, the year 2020 is really the year 101,155,938 of the last known synchronization with the planetary system.
Where did you get that number from?
@@Anonymous-df8it If you're interested, you can start by look into our 3 schools of divination.
@@shengsun5916 What?
You can find these kind of calendar in most of East and Southeast Asia. Whereever there is signicant Chinese community. There is also local variations.
I once saw an interview with a large construction company's lead engineer in China said they have to follow these calendars because the Feng Shui, despite not scientific, is semi accurate with the weather forecast (mainly in rain and cloud).
2:01 First monarch, not first Emperor. We all know who the first emperor was - Qin Shi Huang.
Correct!!! You are right!
since a kid I get used to tear the calendar, for more exact detail things my grandpa would see ming-lik or tong-sing every year, he would buy it.
even after my granpa passed away, I still read the calender, for example for cutting hair day for this january 2021 would be in good day at 18th and 30th
The same the same😑
Thank you ! Enjoyed it and learned a lot !!
Street vendors in Vietnam used to wrap banh mi sammies in these sheets. Bet some still do.
Ayo what month is it?
Chinese - _It's insect coming month ma dude_
The new ones have text for example: good for offering sacrifice to goals and bad for netting. But doesn't mean I can't use a rod for fishing. The large calendars have colourful design. Last year, there's was picture of pig eating honey glazed ham, like okay promoting self cannibalism. Upcoming Ox year is challenging for those born in year of the Ram. The calendars are accurate in predicting blue moon where there's 2 moon in the month. Still fascinating video.
Thank you so much for such a meaningful and educational video.
I love to see more such video that educate us more about the traditional Chinese culture that many younger generations don't understand.
Thanks, have these hanging around my parent's house and always wondered what the rest of the writing were.
Love this 👍 so.much information in 1 page 😁
They have one in my nail shop. It always looked interesting.
My mom still bought those tearaway Calendar and hang them on my family home's wall. And yes they included all those things. A bit of ironic since she's the only who could read them.
Definitely a memory, my granny used to torn off a page every night to wipe her mouth after dinner.
Awwww 🥺
I used to collect my grandmas’ old calendar but I forgot where I put them!!!😭
back when i was kid i thought these calendar papers can somehow be used as talisman to stop chinese vampire/zombie. just need to paint it yellow
Can the chinese calenders translate into english language? I would buy it if they have it.
Thank you for sharing this video. Very helpfull.
I grew up with these and I wish they had an English translation. Also I would not mind a recipe of the day. Sounds amazing.
i would like one of those but in English, it would be interesting to use.
My dad loves these tear off Chinese calendars. No wonder he loved them because he is a gardener, makes sense right? lol My mum loves to keep certain pages for special dates like our birth or wedding days. My mum would always referred to them for choosing wedding days. I always wondered how the heck she know what is a good day? Now it makes sense, what all that text means. I never even took notice until now that it meant something. I probably should go back to learn Chinese.
This is why we should call it the Chinese New Year instead of the lunar New Year, because the method to determine the date of the New Year is the traditional Chinese calendar instead of the lunar calendar.
Wow. I basically ignore the calendar at home. It's like a must calender to have at home yet no one uses it. The last few years the days aren't even ripped. It's a calender full of pages in December when there should only be a few pages instead
What a cute goldthread book! 😆
well as a young person I'd love to get these calendars! somehow don't remember seeing them at Chinese grocery stores
sometimes you need to ask the cashier in the chinese store to buy it They put that product away, and keep it as a bonus gift to long term customers sometimes. Yeah, i grew up in china but don't know why they would do that. Probably it's too cheap to be made profitable.
I loved this documentary, it was very informative and fun. I have been collecting these for my own collage work each year and always wondered what all the characters were. I thought they were advertisements, lol!
Just a Fun fact for everyone out there, every 15th day of the chinese calendar month is a full moon 🌕.
Would love an english version.
Nice info.... This calendar is quite similar to that of Indian calendar...
It's been a while since I saw these calendar, the last time was in my childhood . Canada.
Chinese wisdom is overwhelming
I use personal chinese metaphysics (fengshui for personal) expert to do all calculations for me. She calculated from my born day as detail as hours and minutes.
So your life, is your calendar? Has anything been accurate?
When the old man showed the Chinese calendar on his hands, mentioned what's the recipe on the Chinese calendar, I realized that Chinese calendar exactly same as my house's Chinese calendar. I'm tearing off the pages of the calendar every day!
Many people who aren’t farmers use it too. This the calendar we base birthdates, death dates, festivals, seasons, not just for gardening.
Loved this 😃😃
My mom hangs all these calendars she gets from the Asian markets. I wanna throw them out but she wants to keep them even though they're over 5 years old!
its scarily accurate fr, ive noticed it the most with the seasons
I love those calenders. I would always admire it as a kid and ask questions, when my grandparents were still with me. Now however, I can't read them cause i can't read Chinese (now, i have to contend with reading the tarot)
Thank you for this
The prediction on future of Chinese almanac not just gambling without calculation,the statement on how the weather and agricultural mostly come true,how or when the cloud pouring rain are predictable
I have this calendar at home. I use it everyday for auspicious times. Also which animal sign are dominant that day is important. There is also good luck numbers. I don't use it that much.
Something similar in the west is the farmers almanac.
All Farmers go by the lunar cycle it is more accurate for plantings, growing schedule and seasons.
we young generation use handphone to set alarm and set notification
and at the end
we hate annoying notification and delete it
and regret it after that alarm didn't notify
Dang ...
If they think they are tacky why not hire a graphic designer to change the layout. Just for a few calendars
i want one with the recipes! would love to know more about how to read the full calendar. Great content! Love the goldthread handmade book too!
Thanks for this I was always wondering why my mom was always consulting this calendar. But the thing is she lives in S F not China so it might not be accurate.
You got a moon in SF, no?
It's still accurate.. in fact very acurate. For sailor, chinese calendar is a must. And i'm not live in china.
@@joyjoyoo the weather is different
It should work since they are both in the northern hemisphere, but I might be wrong.
It does not only apply to China. You have moon.
This is cool. Is their a Chinese calendar with the same info in English?
The way you prepared this vdo clip is absolutely superb, Thumbs up. 👍👍👍
SO what did everyone miss here? It's not what's in the calendar. It's the calendar's ability to count to 60 years. In the Gregorian calendar we think in terms of century. In the Chinese calendar it's in terms of 60 years. 60 seconds. 60 minutes. It gives a sense of punctuality.
Great video, informative👍💯
This video is brilliant...thank you.
Not only farmers since tides are also ties with the moon, most fisherman even if they arent chinese uses chinese calendar in indonesia
This makes me link to Bible Genesis .14: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years...
i still use these red calendar, the one i tear off everyday...
3:31 The huge circle for me
My family still determined the death anniversary of my ancestors and each one of us still remember our birth date according to Chinese calendar
Beautiful info I was always puzxle wit d chinese calender.Tq
This new narrator.. love you.
Well this whole year is wasted... 不宜。
Whoa so informative. I never paid attention to all the detailed stuff underneath the Gregorian number.
3:30 I didn't know they also make for Vietnamese.
My father can decoding, he helps people to find good date for business, wedding,birth etc
Interesting, I always just thought they were ugly and annoying to tear everyday. I have a new found appreciation of it now.
And you can use the torn paper for toilet paper if need be.
DUDE thanks for making this video. finally understand why they made this calendar, I always stare at them but don't understand HAHAHA.
I wonder if they make them for the southern hemisphere too? I'm an Australian and my life is a mess. Please guide me Feng Shui masters....
am always with the lunar calendar for there is spirituality in it
Does the calendar show me when mercury is in retrograde? 🤔
I’ve had this question on my mind for awhile!
Great video. The subtitles, particular white and white, was hard to read tho
can someone tell me how to read the vietnamese version. I know what the words are saying but i have no idea the context or meaning 😭
Birthday by lunar calendar is more observed in rural areas even today.
I want one, NOW, with an English translation of course ! Fortunately, that shouldn't be hard to find here in San Francisco. 👍😎
So many people mistakenly call the Chinese calendar l lunar calendar. Glad you set them straight!
You should make a video on how the Chinese New Year is determine each year. It’s the most important day on the Chinese calendar!
I have the calendar on an app.
i am living in Selangor , Malaysia . May i get 2022 version chinese calendar by April 2021 for wedding purpose , thanks to all .
recipe of the day? i will take that
You should post b-roll footage of the assembly
Looks like I will be switching to the Chinese calendar lads.
Fun fact, if you buy 2 calendar from different factory, you will find the prediction completely different.
Really?? I would have thought it would be the same. How accurate are they then if that is so?
We always had one coming up but I never had two I could compare.
介紹各種中國人的文化的直播，我讚賞！
i grew up tearing off the pages from calendars like these
great vid
I checked it tonight good for " 行歡”.