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RE: An Early Spring :: Haiku of Japan #75
It's interesting how most so-called "lunar calendars" are half-solar, to remain constant with the seasons.
Makes you wonder if the Muslim calendar is different because it originated in a culture that focused more on livestock than agriculture?
I am ignorant about muslim calendar. But I make sure Chinese calendar originated in the agricultural culture which is reflected in a lot of ancient Chinese poems.
Yes, which explains why it's half-solar.
A fully lunar calendar has 13 months of 28 days, and its holidays tend to be in a different Gregorian month, to quite some variation, every year, due to that.