Chapter 199 No Lunar Calendar

In short, “···”

Jian Yan was a little confused by the look and asked blankly, "What, what happened?"

Not really, that's it...

Lu Jinxiu sighed and said, "There are only three days left until the Dragon Boat Festival, which means..."

"Wait a minute."

Jian Yan finally realized what the problem was: the time was wrong.

"Isn't the Dragon Boat Festival the fifth day of the fifth month?"

Lu Jinxiu, "No, it's May 5th."

In short, "···No lunar calendar?"

Lu Jinxiu's eyes lit up, and instead of answering, he asked, "Do you know how to calculate the lunar calendar?"

The empire did not have a lunar calendar, but there were records of the lunar calendar in the documents left by our ancestors.

Festivals like Dragon Boat Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day and Spring Festival are all based on the lunar calendar.

After the empire entered a period of rapid development and peace, experts and scholars from the Institute of History took on the task of cultural revival.

This task included restoring the lunar calendar algorithm, but was unsuccessful.

Due to the incompleteness of documentary materials, our ancestors' method of calculating the lunar calendar has not been preserved.

Without any reference, the small branch task of Lunar Calendar Revival can only end in failure.

The same is true for the revival of the 24 solar terms.

But the cultural revival of the empire was too important, so festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival, which were preserved by our ancestors, once again became legal holidays in the empire.

The only difference is that the time has changed from the original lunar calendar to the simple and easy-to-remember star calendar.

In short, “···”

Jian Yan shook his head. "I don't know how to calculate the lunar calendar, but I remember that there is a one-month difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar."

"Which one is bigger and which one is smaller?"

"The solar calendar is big."

The difference is one month, the solar calendar is bigger.

Lu Jinxiu and the others calculated it in their minds and fell silent.

If Jianyan's memory is correct, the real Dragon Boat Festival will not be three days later, but one month later.

The Dragon Boat Festival is wrong, and the Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, July 15th, New Year's Day and Spring Festival are definitely wrong too.

This kind of mistake...

"hiss···"

A loud gasp was heard, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Li Shaofeng gasping for air as if he had a toothache.

"I think we should just celebrate the festival the same way as before."

Li Shaofeng, who was being watched by a group of people, said earnestly, "It's been thousands of years, and everyone has become accustomed to a few statutory holidays. It's not easy to change them."

"That's not a problem."

Xiao Mufeng continued, "It's easy to change if we really want to, but the key problem is that we can't change it.

We don't know the exact calculation method of the lunar calendar, and there is a high chance that we will make mistakes if we try to change it blindly.

unless···"

His gaze fell on Jian Yan, and he smiled and said, "Jian Yan can restore his memory of the lunar calendar conversion method."

Jian Yan almost knelt down before them.

Although what she said was true, that the Dragon Boat Festival was on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, this was not a reason for them to seriously discuss changing the festival.

In addition, she really doesn't know how to convert the lunar calendar and the solar calendar.

As a native Chinese, she does not need to convert between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar herself.

When I was a child, I had calendars and my dad. When I grew up, I had mobile phones.

You can tell what day it is today at a glance.

No one would bother to convert the dates themselves.

She said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You're a little weird. You know I've lost my memory and lack common sense, but why do you believe me so easily? A soldier should be wary and skeptical, right?"

Lu Jinxiu and the others thought she was weird.

"We all share the vigilance and suspicion you mentioned, but you..."

(End of this chapter)