Reporting Change

From week 1 to week 5, profits __increased slightly___. Then from week 6 to week 8, profits  rose dramatically   and __peaked__ at 3.0 million at week 8. From week 8 to week 15 profits ___stabilized_____ with a _slight dip__ at week 11. Then from week 15 to week 21 profits _fluctuated wildly_ with a _maximum_ of 3.5 million at week 16 and a _minimum_ of 2.2 million at week 17. From week 21 to week 23, profits __levelled off__ at 2.8 million.

From week 24 to 28, profits ___decreased slightly___ and then from weeks 29 to week 36, profits  increased gradually _ with a __spike_ at week 33 of 4.2 million. From week 37 to week 40, profits ___dropped substantially___,  bottoming___ at 1 million at week 40. From week 40 to week 46, profits __fluctuated mildly____ with a _____maximum____ of 1.2 million and a __minimum__ of 0.8 million. 

About Calendar

 In Chinese calendar, there are 12 months per year, and there are about 29 days per month. The month measured between successive new moons. There are about 354 days per year and there are about 10 days less than calendar year (solar year). So there 7 leap months every 19 years, and the lunar calendar is synchronous to solar calendar. In fact Chinese calendar is lunisolar calendar and it is depended on both moon and sun.

There is another particular solar calendar in ancient china, called the twenty-four solar terms. In fact, it really  remarks the activities in agriculture. From the names of these solar terms, farmers can immediately know what should do during this period.

Chinese calendar is not exclusive to China, but followed by many other Asian cultures as well.

The Gregorian solar calendar is an arithmetical calendar. It counts days as the basic unit of time, grouping them into years of 365 or 366 days; and repeats completely every 146,097 days, which fill 400 years, and which also happens to be 20,871 seven-day weeks. Of these 400 years, 303 common years have 365 days and 97 leap years have 366 days. This yields a calendar mean year of exactly 365+97/400 days = 365.2425 days = 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds.

Mythology about Nian

Chinese New Year is called as Spring Festival too. Spring Festival features wearing new clothing, eating dumplings, having reunion dinner, posting spring scrolls on windows and doors etc. Some picture posted on door is called door-god, which is very fearful. Why do people like to post an ugly picture on door?  There is a tale about Nian. Nian means year. For example I had studied four years in Jiangsu province. But there is another meaning. According to tales and legends, Nian is a mythical beast. Nian would come on the first day of New Year to eat livestock, crops, and even villagers, especially children. To protect themselves, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nian ate the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack any more people. One time, people saw that the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid of the colour red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used firecrackers to frighten away the Nian. From then on, Nian never came to the village again.