It takes place on a different date every year because it is based on the
lunar calendar which uses the moon to mark the passage of time.
Tsai embarked on her tour on Friday, the first day of the Year of the Dog on the
lunar calendar, to pray for good luck for the people of Taiwan and distribute well-wishing red envelopes to the public.
4 billion Chinese people will be celebrating the arrival of their New Year according to the traditional
lunar calendar.
The year 2018 has been tagged in the Chinese
Lunar calendar as the 'Year of the Earth Dog.
They follow the
lunar calendar in which the start and end of every month is determined by the sighting of a crescent moon, while Christians follow the Gregorian calendar.
Because the
lunar calendar advances 11 days each year, the prophet's birthday changes year-to-year, and falls on Wednesday this year.
In Thailand, for example, they will celebrate 2561 year, according to the Buddhist
lunar calendar in which the chronology begins from the moment Buddha made nirvana.
They may not all have bar mitzvahs, but if you count off the usual tenets of a werewolf storyfollowing a
lunar calendar, dashing off when the sun goes down, making excuses for weird disappearances, accusations, hunts, being driven off by suspicious townspeopleit's easy to guess why Jewish creators throughout the years have chosen the werewolf as a central horror figure.
The first day of the year is observed on the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic
lunar calendar.
The new UAE's
lunar calendar is based on the lunar cycle and it is a manifestation of close interaction of science, Sharia and society, said Ahmad Juma Al Za'abi, Deputy Minister of Presidential Affairs and chairman of the council of trustees of the Shaikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
It occurs in the month of Dhul Hijjah which is the twelfth month of the Islamic
lunar calendar.
In the Islamic
lunar calendar, Eid ul-Azha falls on the 10th day of Zil-Hajj.
