Infrapink (he/his/him)People are referring to Sunday as "#LunarNewYear".
It is not. The Chinese calendar is #lunisolar, not lunar. This means that, while the calendar months match the cycle of the moon, New Year is ALSO determined by the position of the sun.
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AFAIK, there are only two purely lunar calendars in historical use. The #LunarHijriCalendar (AKA #MuslimCalendar, #ArabCalendar) is a straightforward cycle of 12 months; it is adapted from an older lunisolar calendar which dropped leap months when #Muhammad ruled you can't add extra months.
The traditional calendar of the Kazakh nomads is also purely lunar. Months directly match the lunar cycle, and the year begins when the new moon aligns with Polaris and the Pleiades.
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