Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Frontispieces
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Mathematical Notations
- Preface
- Credits
- License and Limited Warranty and Remedy
- About the Cover
- 1 Calendar Basics
- I ARITHMETICAL CALENDARS
- II ASTRONOMICAL CALENDARS
- 13 Time and Astronomy
- 14 The Persian Calendar
- 15 The Bahá'í Calendar
- 16 The French Revolutionary Calendar
- 17 The Chinese Calendar
- 18 The Modern Hindu Calendars
- 19 The Tibetan Calendar
- 20 Astronomical Lunar Calendars
- Coda
- III APPENDICES
- Index
- Envoi
- About the Cover
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Frontispieces
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Mathematical Notations
- Preface
- Credits
- License and Limited Warranty and Remedy
- About the Cover
- 1 Calendar Basics
- I ARITHMETICAL CALENDARS
- II ASTRONOMICAL CALENDARS
- 13 Time and Astronomy
- 14 The Persian Calendar
- 15 The Bahá'í Calendar
- 16 The French Revolutionary Calendar
- 17 The Chinese Calendar
- 18 The Modern Hindu Calendars
- 19 The Tibetan Calendar
- 20 Astronomical Lunar Calendars
- Coda
- III APPENDICES
- Index
- Envoi
- About the Cover
Summary
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson: Journal (May, 1849)The following description of the presentation of the annual calendar in China is taken from Peter (Pierre) Hoang (A Notice of the Chinese Calendar and a Concordance with the European Calendar, 2nd ed., Catholic Mission Press, Shanghai, 1904):
Every year, on the 1st of the 2nd month, the Board of Mathematics presents to the Emperor three copies of the Annual Calendar for the following year, namely in Chinese, in Manchou and in Mongolian. Approbation being given, it is engraved and printed. Then on the 1st of the 4th month, two printed copies in Chinese are sent to the Fan-t‘ai (Treasurer) of each province, that of Chih li excepted; one of which, stamped with the seal of the Board of Mathematics, is to be preserved in the archives of the Treasury, while the other is used for engraving and printing for public use in the province.
On the 1st day of the 10th month, early in the morning, the Board of Mathematics goes to offer Calendars to the Imperial court. The copies destined to the Emperor and Empresses are borne upon a sedan-like stand painted with figures of dragons (Lung t‘ing), those for the Princes, the Ministers and officers of the court being carried on eight similar stands decorated with silk ornaments (Ts‘ai-t‘ing).
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- Calendrical Calculations , pp. 333 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007