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Chinese Calendrical System

© Howard R. Spendelow

Georgetown Universitydraft as of 27 Jan 2014

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Twelve animals of the “Chinese” zodiac

In the Vietnamese zodiac, the rabbit yields to the cat

Ai Weiwei with dog-head, (Chengdu, 2010)

even MicroSoft Word©…

Calendar from Great Wall Supermarket

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Spring Festival

辛卯 – 金兔traditional art forms: cut paper (剪紙 ) and tangrams

(七巧板 )

But, where’s the horse?

15-piece tangram

Centennial of the 1911 Revolution

Qing period nianhua

New Year poster

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“Arrival of Happiness”

Safeway – Davenport St NW DC

富貴有餘

年年有餘

招財進寶

Baidu’s tracking of Spring Festival Migrationqianxi.baidu.com

Lantern Festival in Taiwan / Pingxia

Dragon Boat races

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41712000/jpg/_41712466_chinaap.jpg

Dragon Boat race, Okinawa (USMC)

粽子

“Ghost Festival ( 中元節 )”

月餅

Kitchen God ( 竈君 / 神 )

“He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when…”

“Elf on the Shelf”

”Sending off the Kitchen God”

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“Dispelling-cold Pictures” ( 消寒圖 )

Jiayi, Taiwan

“water-ghost city god”

Jinmen, 2012

劇終(the end)

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蝙蝠 ( 福 )