Sentence examples for this lunar year from inspiring English sources

This lunar year, which began in February, is being celebrated as the Year of the Fire Monkey.

This lunar year (or Hsia cheng) was used till the last day of the Ch'ing, or Manchu, dynasty (1644 1911/12).

The Muslim calendar, based on the lunar year, declares that all this happened 100 years ago.Despite the sniffs of Muslim conservatives who think anniversaries unIslamic, officials have seized on the centenary to laud the triumphs of the Saudi state.

Finding a system that reconciled the lunar year with the solar year was the great challenge of calendar-making.

A particularly important holiday for the Li is a festival held on March 3rd of the lunar year.

Each of these calendars attempted to combine in a single system the lunar year of 12 cycles of phases of the moon, totaling about 354 days, and the solar year of about 365 days.

Within a month the rebels had taken Luoyang, and at the beginning of the lunar year corresponding to 756 An Lushan proclaimed himself emperor of the Great Yen dynasty.

The allure of the dragon is so strong that many parents ignore the precise boundaries of the lunar year and consider the entire year of 2000 as the Year of the Dragon.

The largest number of prints (42) -- is grouped under spring, by Japanese tradition the first three months of the lunar year, a time for celebrating the New Year and viewing floral blossoms.

For example, there are severe, yet somewhat predictable, mass turnover events after the Lunar Year Holiday and/or after bonus payments.

For example, Shaw and Shi (2017) mention that Chinese organizations face unique temporal and seasonal challenges addressing mass employee turnover (e.g., after the Lunar Year Holiday and after bonus payments).