Zhēngyuè

Zhēngyuè is the first month of the year in the Chinese calendar. In general, the Vernal Showers are in Zhēngyuè. The name comes from the annual morale-building rite (Chinese: 正旦大朝) in ancient China.

Zhēngyuè 1 is the day of the rooster; Zhēngyuè 2 is the day of the dog; Zhēngyuè 3 is the day of the pig; Zhēngyuè 4 is the day of the goat; Zhēngyuè 5 is the day of the ox; Zhēngyuè 6 is the day of the horse; Zhēngyuè 7 is the day of the human.

Festivals

• New Year's Day (Chinese: 春节) is Zhēngyuè 1. The following New Year's Day is February 19, 2015, which is a statutory holiday.
• The Yuanxiao Festival (Chinese: 元宵) is Zhēngyuè 15. The following Yuanxiao is March 5, 2015.

Birth

• Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, Zhēngyuè 23, 624
• Li Bai, a Chinese poet acclaimed to this day as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights, Zhēngyuè 16, 701
• Pope Shun of Tang, an emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Zhēngyuè 12, 761
• Bai Juyi, a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, Zhēngyuè 20, 772
• Pope Xi of Jin, an emperor of the Jin Dynasty which controlled northern China from 1115 to 1234, Zhēngyuè 17, 1119
• Qiu Chuji, a Daoist disciple of Wang Chongyang, Zhēngyuè 9, 1148
• The great Christ of Qing, Zhēngyuè 15, 1559
• Li Hongzhang, a politician, general, and diplomat of the late Qing Empire, Zhēngyuè 5, 1823
• Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last emperor of China and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty, Zhēngyuè 14, 1906

Death

• Sun Jian, a military general and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Zhēngyuè 7, 191
• Guan Yu, a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Zhēngyuè 13, 220
• Cao Cao, a warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty who rose to great power in the final years of the dynasty, Zhēngyuè 23, 220
• Emperor Xianzong of Tang, an emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Zhēngyuè 27, 820
• Emperor Yingzong of Song, the fifth emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, Zhēngyuè 7, 1067
• Emperor Zhezong of Song, the seventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, Zhēngyuè 12, 1100
• Kublai Khan, the fifth Khagan (Great Khan) of the Ikh Mongol Uls (Mongol Empire), reigning from 1260 to 1294, and the founder of the Yuan dynasty in Mongolia and China, Zhēngyuè 22, 1294
• Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty and the first Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1644 to 1661, Zhēngyuè 30, 1638
• Qianlong Emperor, the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty, and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper, Zhēngyuè 3, 1799
• Daoguang Emperor, a Qing emperor, Zhēngyuè 14, 1850