In Europe, the Pope promulgated the almanac, and the current Gregorian calendar is 1582. After Pope Gregory XIII revised julian calendar, it was printed by the local printing house.
In the old society, Qin issued the almanac of the following year on the first day of October every year. According to Yanjing Year, after the publication of the calendar in October, constitutional books were sold in large and small bookstores, and there were also negative box sellers between Qu and Xiang. The imperial calendar is a constitutional book, also known as a general book. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the so-called Daxin imperial calendar was sold on the market, which was printed with the Constitution Book of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty and the Order Book of the Republic of China. The title page of the book is printed with the date of birth and death of the empress dowager of the dynasty. The part outside the calendar is called preface, and some of them are more than the text. Even the three-character classic, hundreds of surnames, thousands of words and Zhu Xi's family instructions are attached. After the Republic of China, there were portraits of contemporary great men and pictures of civilized wedding ceremonies. On the header of the calendar section, there is a train table (arranged in order of station names only) and a Christmas date table of the Buddha. Calendars are based on the lunar calendar. After people bought this encyclopedia, they first wrote on the cover with a brush: No lights, no trouble at night. This encyclopedia was officially released in Chinese mainland until 1949, and then terminated. However, there are still private publications in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
China's earliest almanac was framed into a shaft and written with a brush. There are several kinds of almanac in Dunhuang unearthed documents. At present, the known almanac engraved with wooden boards appeared in the ninth year of Taihe in Tang Dynasty (AD 835). Up to now, almanac can't be compared with the past almanac. It is presented to people with a brand-new look. As far as its types are concerned, there are many kinds of calendars, including annual calendar, monthly calendar, lunar calendar, pregnancy calendar, desk calendar, wall calendar and perpetual calendar. With the continuous progress of social information, technology and culture, its content is all-encompassing and colorful; The design forms are not only diverse, but also full of cultural and artistic flavor. All kinds of almanac and almanac with celebrity calligraphy, poems and paintings are often a kind of collection, so now more and more people attach importance to collecting all kinds of almanac and almanac. Almanac is the same every year, and various varieties are branded with the social history of that year. For example, the almanac "Dongfanghong" published in 1975 by the author (see photo) has the characteristics of "special age" at that time. The size of the almanac is 22.5 cm× 16.3 cm, with 236 pages. The cover is the New Year picture created by Shaanxi Fine Arts Creation Group-"Yan 'an Children Heart to Chairman Mao"; The second seal is a map of People's Republic of China (PRC); The portrait of Chairman Mao is printed on the cover; The home page is printed with songs such as 1975 Yearbook and Dongfanghong, as well as iconic patterns composed of radiant red sun, Tiananmen Square, three red flags, factories and rice ears. The third cover is printed with a map of the world; The back cover is a peasant painting in Huxian County. There are 15 columns in the book, including Unite for Greater Victory, Flowers Bloom in Dazhai All over the Country, Building a New Face of the Motherland, Occupy Rural Cultural Positions with Socialist Thought, Educated Youth in a Broad World, Scientific Farming and Scientific Experiments, with a total of 228 articles. Month, day, solar terms, birth control year, local meteorological changes and other table samples are arranged in the first half of the first 20 pages; In the second half of the yearbook, there are "Summary of Chinese Historical Chronology", "Summary of Municipal Metrology" and photos. There were no advertisements at that time, only some "rural books" and their catalogues. This yearbook is edited and published by publishing houses such as agriculture, people's health, science, people's fine arts and rural reading materials. , and by Xinhua News Agency, china national radio, China Photo Agency, People's Liberation Army Daily and other pictorial newspapers, sports newspapers, North China militia, geographical knowledge and other editorial departments, as well as Guangdong and Guangxi People's Publishing Houses1/agencies.