On the Cause of the Use of the Chinese Calender for Long Years and the Necessity of the Beginning to Use the Solar Calender After the Revolution of 1911 (Abridgement)

Inspired by one of Engles'work, entitled "the dialectics of nature and Abstracts of Scientific History", the author attempts to give the reason, from the point of view that both the origin and improvement of a calender should serve the production, why the lunar calender was basically enough for the guidance of farming and so deep-rooted during the long years of the feudal society in China when the agriculture was taken as the dominent factor of the national economy. After, the Opium War, the seeds of capitalism appeared in China, and the productive fortes and production relations locally changed. The economic base changed and so did the superstructure (such as law, educa-tion, etc.). In additim, the government changed the policy of closing the country to international intercourse into that of opening the country to foreign countries; and therefore the international contacts were becoming freguent day by day. From then on, people made do with the lunar calender. By the eve of the Revolution of 1911, the use of the solar calender had become an irresistible historial trend.