Korean calendar
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The traditional Korean calendar is directly derived from the Asian calendar. The calendar had:
- The [[Asian cosmology of 12 Earthly Branches (animal votary spirits), which were used for counting hours and years;
- Ten Heavenly Stems, which were combined with the 12 Earthly Branches to form a sixty-year cycle;
- Twenty-four solar terms (jeolgi 節氣 절기) in the year, spaced roughly 15 days apart;
- Lunar Months.
Korea started using the Gregorian calendar on 1 January 1896 due to Japanese hegemony that was formalized under the 1876 Treaty of Ganghwa -- one of the "unequal treaties" of that imperialist era (for a general history, vide Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Empire: 1875-1914 (Vintage). The lunar calendar is still used now in "modern" Korea for the observation of traditional holidays (cf. Korean Lunar Festivals) and the marking of birthdays by Koreans.
See also
- List of Korea-related topics
- Sexagenary cycle
- Chinese calendar
- Japanese calendar
- Festivals of the lunar calendar.
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