The Chinese calendar is interesting because they have a different one than we use in the Western countries, but they use both. If you look a calendar, it will have both the western date and the Chinese date for each day. Technically, to simplify things, it could be said that the Chinese calendar is about a month behind the one we use. However, it is more complicated than that. The Chinese year aligns more with the phases of the moon. The Chinese New Year varies in date every year, but is always around beginning to mid February. This year it is the first week in February. The few western holidays the Chinese do celebrate are mostly celebrated on the same day we have them, with the exception of Valentines Day (theirs is in August!) and possibly a few others. The translation of the words the Chinese use for their days (instead of Monday, Tuesday, etc) are the equivalent of day 1, day 2, etc. The same is for months- month 1, month 2. It is very hard for Chinese children to learn the days and months with their weird names and confusing orders!
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