How many years is the era of the Yellow Emperor now?
In the past, there were mainly two kinds of chronology, one was the trunk branch chronology, and the other was the year number chronology.
The so-called chronology of trunk and branch refers to sixty different combination names of ten-day trunk (A to Gui) and twelve-day trunk (Zi to Hai) in turn to represent different years. Such as: Jiazi Year, Hundred Days Reform, Gengzi Year. ...
The chronological method of year number is to record the year with the year number established when each emperor was in office; For example, the sixth year of Hongwu was the first year of Daoguang. ...
These two chronologies were first implemented in the Han Dynasty. Because of the chronology of cadres and branches, a year with the same name will appear every 60 years; In order to distinguish, the branch and the year number are often used together, such as "Jiaqing is three years old and the year is in Wuwu".
This situation lasted for nearly two thousand years, and it was not until 19 12 that the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar was introduced into China. Then, the name "Spring Festival" appeared in festivals of China people.
Since then, the traditional New Year's Day in China has become the "Spring Festival", and the Gregorian calendar 1 day has replaced the first day of the first lunar month as New Year's Day.