Excerpt from Chinese-American Calendar: For the 102 Chinese Years Commencing January 24, 1849, and Ending February 5, 1951 The day is now recognized as beginning at midnight, and this has been the practice for a number of centuries, though the Chinese did not originally consider the day as beginning at that time._ The date of the astronomical new moon, even though its occurrence be barely before midnight by local time at Peking, China, is always the first day of a month. The Chinese year commences with the day on which occurs the second new moon after the day of the winter solstice, and, therefore, can not begin earlier than January 20 nor later than February 20. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.