Show china bootleg calendar chinas cainas law forbidding the printing of calendars according to the ol 01 old d lunar system has failed to prevent the tha continued use of that system or the celebration of the chinese new year as it has been observed for thousands of years chinese families buy calendars printed according to the gregorian reckoning and then write in the corresponding lunar dates As before they have marked the advent of the new year by abstaining from work visiting friends paying debts and setting off firecrackers |