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Yi Je-hyeon
Yi Je-hyeon (Hangul: 이제현, Hanja: 李齊賢; 28 January 1288 – 24 August 1367) of the Gyeongju Yi clan, was a Goryeo politician, Neo-Confucianism scholar, philosopher, writer and poet. He was the follower and successor of Baek Yijeong, and the father of Royal Consort Hye-bi, who would eventually become the consort of King Gongmin. Family * Great-Great-Grandfather ** Yi Seung-go (이승고, 李升高) * Great-Grandfather ** Yi Deuk-gyeon (이득견, 李得堅) * Grandfather ** Yi Haek (이핵, 李翮) *Grandmother **Lady Kim of the Gimhae Kim clan (김해 김씨) *Father **Yi Jin (이진, 李瑱) (1244 – 1321) *** Uncle - Yi In-jeong (이인정, 李仁挺) *** Uncle - Yi Se-gi (이세기, 李世基) *Mother ** Grand Lady Park of the Jinhan State (진한국대부인) *** Grandfather - Park In-yuk (박인육, 朴仁育) * Siblings **Older brother - Yi Gwan (이관, 李琯) **Younger brother - Yi Ji-jeong (이지정, 李之正) *Wives and their issue(s): **Lady Gwon of Gilch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunar Calendar
A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based only directly on the solar year. The most commonly used calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is a solar calendar system that originally evolved out of a lunar calendar system. A purely lunar calendar is also distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought into alignment with the solar year through some process of intercalation. The details of when months begin vary from calendar to calendar, with some using new, full, or crescent moons and others employing detailed calculations. Since each lunation is approximately days, (which gives a mean synodic month as 29.53059 days or 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes and 3 seconds) it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year, is 354 days, 8 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
