This project aims to provide some utilities to aid the remembrance of ancestors, in the hope of being able to make ritual offerings like burning joss sticks in cyberspace (ultimate goal).
This script tries to mimic the console output of ccal, a perpetual calendar utility (万年历 / lịch vạn niên).
Additional functions include showing extra lines (switch -s) for daily sexagesimal names, miscellaneous terms (other than solar terms) for phenology,
and anniversaries of birth or death for people registered using switches like -a, etc. See help (-h) for details.
CAVEAT: The Chinese calendar is calculated using pycalcal, and is not as accurate as ccal. Outputs for years beyond 2233 are not trustworthy. The performance is also inferior.
Sample output:
>chcp
Active code page: 936
>python pyccal.py -sg 7 2018
July 2018 戊戌年六月小13日始
Sun 日 Mon 一 Tue 二 Wed 三 Thu 四 Fri 五 Sat 六
1 十八 2 十九 3 二十 4 廿一 5 廿二 6 廿三 7 小暑
甲午 乙未 丙申 丁酉 戊戌 己亥 庚子
8 廿五 9 廿六 10 廿七 11 廿八 12 廿九 13 六月 14 初二
辛丑 [外婆忌] 癸卯 甲辰 [妈生] 丙午 [出梅]
15 初三 16 初四 17 初五 18 初六 19 初七 20 初八 21 初九
戊申 己酉 [初伏] 辛亥 壬子 癸丑 甲寅
22 初十 23 大暑 24 十二 25 十三 26 十四 27 十五 28 十六
乙卯 丙辰 丁巳 戊午 己未 [中伏] 辛酉
29 十七 30 十八 31 十九
壬戌 癸亥 甲子
>python pyccal.py -s 7 2018
July 2018 (Year WuXu, Month 6X S13)
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 [18] 2 [19] 3 [20] 4 [21] 5 [22] 6 [23] 7 [XS]
JiaWu YiWei BingShen DingYou WuXu JiHai GengZi
8 [25] 9 [26] 10 [27] 11 [28] 12 [29] 13 [ 6]Y 14 [ 2]
XinChou [D.MGm] GuiMao JiaChen [B.Mom] BingWu [ChuMei]
15 [ 3] 16 [ 4] 17 [ 5] 18 [ 6] 19 [ 7] 20 [ 8] 21 [ 9]
WuShen JiYou [ChuFu] XinHai RenZi GuiChou JiaYin
22 [10] 23 [DS] 24 [12] 25 [13] 26 [14] 27 [15] 28 [16]
YiMao BingChen DingSi WuWu JiWei [ZhongFu] XinYou
29 [17] 30 [18] 31 [19]
RenXu GuiHai JiaZi