The moon is not capable of producing its own light, so what we see from Earth is a reflection of the sun's light shining on ...

May would be called the "Planting Moon." In the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, the May full moon is in the fourth month, called Huáiyuè, the Locust Tree Month. In much of Buddhist Southeast ...

But these dates are different each year, because the Chinese calendar is based on the moon's 12 phases. Each phase cycle is approximately 29 days, and the full calendar is about 354 days long.