Author: Mullion (203.78.81.---)
Date: 12-24-03 18:08
The Chinese Calender is a root source for many points within China's culture including Medicine, Marriage, Buisness ventures, Fortune telling and so many more that I've not found a single source that has all the information so- I include this URL.
An overlaping Solar Calender which has some information that CHUNG Yoon-Ngan did not include - but has left out some of the information that CHUNG Yoon-Ngan did include can be found at:
http://www.friesian.com/chinacal.htm#length
Some more Trivia that I've found is: The ::
冬至 Dong zhi or Winter Solstice on December 21st:: is also the day of the Golden Lotus Blooming (Taoist literature reference: The Secret Of the Golden Flower) - which is the day of the old ending and new beginnings - In some Taoist literature, this date is known as the emergance of the spirit child of meditation - whereas immortality is found.
I often walk the mountain path that leads by the Temple of 10,000 Buddhas in Sha Tin where I have noticed they have a special pond where the Golden Lotus is kept - I've only seen it bloom on the Winter Soltice.
--Personaly I think this has too many simularities to the emergance of the Jesus (christ child) in Christianity to ignore.
Another point is the Cherokee Indian Moon Calendar (brought to my attention by a Taoist friend) that has many of the simularities of the Chinese Lunar Calendar - http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/ceremony/moons.htm - Although - It would also stand to reason that cultures based on nature have many simularities - the American Indians carry the same genetic codes as Chinese, their writing system is VERY closely related - and it is documented by anthropological evidence that they came from Asia - over 15,000 years ago - So- This raises the Question of when did these traditions of Nature, Writing, and the Calendar begin ?????????
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