The Chinese Year of Rabbit spanning from 2023 to 2024 has 13 months. The total number of days is 384. I explained the leap month, solar terms and how Chinese calendar is determined in this video.
I didn't explain the solar terms in this video in detail as I wanted to focus on Chinese calendar. Solar term is an interesting concept and even nowadays Chinese farmers are still using the solar terms to guide their farming activities. I'll make a new video on solar terms on Winter Solstice since that's the solar term that's determined first (the day that has the shortest day time). The rest are calculated. I hope you already understand the concept now. If not, come back to my channel to check my video in a few months.
Great explanation! as usual we Chinese tend to make things overly complicated, if we stuck with the solar calendar since the beginning then that would have made life easier plus discrepancy with the months matching the seasons would have been reduced.
