中国传统夏历及其置闰

中国传统夏历是严格按照太阳、月亮的视位置逐年推算编排的置闰极为复杂的历法.在望远镜发明之前,中国古人对历法推算所必须的许多天文基本数据的观测精度在当时是世界领先的;在牛顿-莱布兹发明微积分之前,中国古人对历法推算的数学手段及其运算技巧在当时也是世界领先的;至于中国夏历复杂的置闰规律,是更加值得后人用现代的数学手段去研究分析的,以便让这份精妙绝伦的科学遗产发扬光大、流芳百世.

Traditional Chinese Lunisolar Calendar and Its Intercalation

Traditional Chinese lunisolar calender is the one whose intercalation is very complicated,which is calculated and arranged rigorously according to apparent postition of the sun and the moon year by year.Before telescope was invented,the ancient Chinese had been in the lead of the world in observation precision of many basic astronomical figures which were needed by calculating calendar at that time,and also in mathematics methods and operational skills of calculating calendar before Newton Leibniz invented infinitesimal.The complicated intercalation rules of Chinese calendar are more worthy of being studied and analyzed by later generations using modern mathematics methods, so that the exquisite scientific heritage is carried forward and left a good name for a hundred generations.