Thus, it was a pivotal moment common to the agrarian andsolaryearcycles.
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One is the difference between the number of days in a lunar year and the number of days in asolaryear.
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One of the reasons is that the lunar year is eleven days shorter than thesolaryear.
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He recognized that the length of thesolaryearis 365.2417 days.
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Thesolaryearis 11 days longer than the lunar year.
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Most plans evolve around thesolaryearof little more than 365 days.
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The dance represents a survival of beliefs based on agricultural and thesolaryear.
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However, the more precise length of asolaryearis about 365.2425 days.
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Asolaryear, however, is slightly shorter than 365 days and 6 hours (365.25 days).
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As each sign is linked to a month of thesolaryear, it is thereby also linked to a season.
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The dates above are approximate; notice that there are 2 days missing from asolaryearin the table above.
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Asolaryearis divided into 24 solar terms, which are the seasonal term guiding farm works.
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Thesolaryearwas defined as days, and divided into 24 equal solar terms.
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These excess days are epacts, and are added to the day of thesolaryearto determine the day of the lunar year.
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That is, its months are synchronized with the phases of the moon, but its average year length approximates the mean length of asolaryear.
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