Minguo calendar
| Minguo calendar |
|---|
| 民國 109 年 08 月 31 日 Minguo 109th year 08th month 31st day |
| Gregorian calendar |
| August 31, 2020 |
 Calendar for the first minguo year, President Sun Yat-sen , 1912 |
The Minguo calendar ( Chinese 民國 紀元 曆 / 民国 纪元 历 , Pinyin mínguó jìyuánlì - "literally Republic Era Calendar", also 中華民國 曆 / 中华民国 历 , Zhōnghuá mínguólì - "literally Republic of China Calendar") is a Calendar currently in use in the Republic of China (Taiwan) . It was also used in the Republic of China in mainland China from 1912 until the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. The Minguo calendar, more precisely the time calculation ( era ) according to the Minguo calendar, is also referred to in Chinese as “ Mínguó jìyuán ” - 民國 紀元 / 民国 纪元 - “literally the age of the republic ”.
It follows the imperial tradition , the Äranamen or government currency to use the ruler in the period of reign. In the official documents of the Republic of China, 1912, the "year of the establishment of the Republic of China", is listed as the first year of the republic ( 民國 元年 , mínguó yuánnián ) in the official calendar. The year 2020 A. D. is therefore the “109. Year of the Republic ”. Years are written as 民國 "nnn" 年 , where "nnn" is the year. For example, the “Minguo year 101” - 民國 一百 零 一年 , also 民國 一 零 一年 or 民國 一 〇 一年 is the year 2012 A.D .. Since Chinese era names are traditionally two characters long, “ Minguo ” ( 民國 - "Republic") as an abbreviation for " Zhonghua Minguo " ( 中華民國 - "Republic of China").
The beginning of the year is on January 1st. The length of the months and the switching rule are the same as in the Gregorian calendar . The only difference is the year number, which is smaller by 1911, i.e. the Gregorian year number minus 1911 is the minguo year number.
The Minguo calendar is not without controversy in Taiwan today. In 2006, the then Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang spoke out in favor of its abolition and a complete transition to the Gregorian calendar (which is used in parallel anyway). However, there was no consistent implementation of this proposal.
Trivia
North Korean calendar
Since the North Korean state founder Kim Il-sung was born in 1912, the Juche calendar used in North Korea since 1997 happens to have the same year count . The year of the Juche calendar also begins on January 1st, and the switching rules were also adopted from the Gregorian calendar.
See also
- List of calendar systems
- Chinese calendar
- Xinhai Revolution
- Holidays in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Endymion Wilkinson: Chinese History - A Manual . Revised and Enlarged 1st edition. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2000, ISBN 0-674-00249-0 , pp. 184–185 (English, google.de [PDF; accessed on June 18, 2019] scanned in ).
- ^ Jimmy Chuang: Taiwan may drop idiosyncratic Republican calendar. In: Taipei Times. February 25, 2006, accessed May 21, 2018 .