今年二月二十四日,是藏历水兔年元旦。藏历和农历一样,是根据月亮围绕地球的运转而制订的。据记载,它始于唐朝,为文成公主所流传,但正式使用却是在宋仁宗天圣五年,也就是公历的一○二七年。当时正值农历的丁卯年,是从丁卯年为始,六十年为一「胜生」,到现在已经是第十六「胜生」了。藏历每月有满月缺月之分,一般满月三十天,缺月二十九天,十二 February 24 this year, is the Tibetan New Year of the Rabbit water. Like the lunar calendar, the Tibetan calendar is based on the moon’s movement around the earth. According to records, it began in the Tang Dynasty, Princess Wencheng spread, but the official use is in Song Renzong days five years, that is, the Gregorian calendar in 1072. Ding Mao-nian, then at the age of the Lunar New Year, started from Ding Mao’s year and sixty years as a “Shengsheng”. Now it is the 16th Shengsheng. There are monthly full moon and moon in Tibetan calendar points, usually thirty full moon, missing month twenty-nine days, twelve