Übersicht über gängige offizielle und traditionelle Kalender in Asien
Von vladgrinch
Übersicht über gängige offizielle und traditionelle Kalender in Asien
Von vladgrinch
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The sheer diversity of global perspectives is truly humbling.
In Japan, the Gregorian calendar is usually used.
Jews live in the future
the gregorian calendar and the minguo calendar have a year difference of 1911 years, so it should be 2026 and 115 respectively
The only one I am aware of them using on a widespread and regular basis is Taiwan with Minguo, aka the year of the republic.
Reiwa 8 not 7
Other major Calendars used in india.
1. **Gregorian (Civil/Christian)**: 2025 CE
2. **Indian National Calendar (Śaka Samvat)**: 1946–1947 Śaka
3. **Vikram Samvat (Hindu Lunisolar)**: 2081–2082 VS
4. **Tamil Calendar (Solar, Tamil Nadu)**: 2056–2057
5. **Malayalam Calendar / Kollam Era (Kerala)**: 1200–1201
6. **Bengali / Bangabda (West Bengal & Bangladesh)**: 1431–1432
7. **Assamese Calendar**: 1431–1432
8. **Odia Calendar (Odisha)**: 1431–1432
9. **Maithili / Tirhuta Calendar (Bihar)**: 1431–1432
10. **Nanakshahi (Sikh Calendar)**: 556–557 NS
11. **Hijri / Islamic Lunar Calendar**: 1446–1447 AH
12. **Jain Vira Nirvana Samvat**: 2551–2552
13. **Buddhist Era (BE)**: 2568–2569 BE
Sambat/Sanvat is not the name, this only means the epoch. You have to say Vikram Samvat, meaning the Hindu lunisolar calendar that was started on a particular date.
Edit: Look up which samvat they use in Nepal, I am confused
Must have map for time travelers!
Just imagine: you travel to India and ask „what date is it today?“
The DPRK abandoned the Juche calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar from this year onwards. You can see this on the state run Rodong Sinmun website using „2025“ instead of what it would have previously used „Juche 114“.
For my country (Indonesia), actually it’s depend on the region though.
And 3 or 4 of the biggest (population) provinces, use 3 in 1 calendar which consists of Gregorian, Lunar Hijri, Javanese (derivatives from shaka)
But 4 in 1 calendar also common in here, with the addition of Chinese
Thailand 2569
I traveled extensively in the region, but Taiwanese is the only one I saw. None of the others. I lived years in China, and still never saw 4000… Also Taiwan’s year system comes from China, so I don’t see how China could be more than 114…
Again, nobody in China will count in year 4xxx. They (and other Asia countries) do use a Lunar calendar, which have no particular year but a different month/ day system.
If the Abrahamic religions didn’t exist we would see REALLY extreme numbers in middle east.
Very interesting! I lived in India for so long and went to school there but somehow I’ve never heard about the Shaka calendar until today. I guess we learn something new every day.
Having a sinigle number for China seems stupid to me. Even more so, if the number is some seemingly random Date in the Xia dynasty, from where tonmy knowledge no written calendar remains. Later Emperors each made their own calendar, while maintaining a 60 year long cyclic counting that would now be on the point of Wood Snake. This Cyclic counting does not count numbers and started to gain importance with the Han-syncretism. So it also is not over 4000 years old, but rather about 2200 years old.
As a Chinese, I never heard of the 4723 year / calendar.
Aside from the 2025 form, the most common way of indicating years is the traditional Tiangan-Dizhi (天干地支,literal meaning sky stem & earth branch）it is non-numerical and still semi-commonly used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle
For example
– 2025 is 乙巳 （the year of the second snake or wood snake)
– 2026 is 丙午 (the year of the third horse, or fire horse)
India is having its independence. Again.
It’s more complicated than you expected regarding Chinese calendar (every calendar actually)
I’m not sure how you give the 4723 number, could you elaborate? The earliest and exact date on the Chinese calendar is Jan 20th 1047BC (Gregorian conversion). But there are many revisions along the history and now it’s updated and published by Zijin observatory in Nanjing. It’s a luisolar calendar despite being called ‘Chinese lunar calendar’ or ‘emperor calendar’ so every month 6 (June) is summer, every month 12 (December) is winter and every 15th of the month is full moon, with the trade off of implementing many more leap days or months. It’s still actively used for birthday celebrations (yes Chinese celebrate birthdays at different dates every year on Gregorian calendar), Chinese new year (that’s why it’s different every year, mostly late Jan and early Feb), opening business or get married ( need to find a good day on the calendar according to Fengshui). The year is recorded with five ‘first part of heavenly stems’ combined with six ‘first part of earthly branches’ aka Chinese zodiac signs such as rat, ox, tiger to deliver thirty years and five ‘second part of heavenly stems’ and six ‘second part of earthly branches’ for the other thirty in cycles, then further labeled with the era name (emperor choosing a good name for years under his reign). For instance, today is the year of Yi (heavenly stems) Si (earthly branches aka year of the snakes), month of Wuzi, day of Wuchen, of the era of president Xi, and today is particularly good for engagement, house building, burial rituals and bad for acquiring real estate and well digging. Hope it helps
The wild part is that the 1404 in Iran and Afghanistan and the 1447 in most of the rest of the Islamic world count time from the same event: the [Hijrah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijrah), in 622 CE.
But the standard lunar Islamic calendar has years that are rather short: 354 or 355 days. Thus the 1447 for an event that we would say (next year) happened 1404 years ago.
[It’s currently WHAT year in Iran!?](https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2025/02/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-ordinary-protagonist-extraordinary-world.jpg)
Why is Reiwa only a 7?