Assignment on Calendar and holidays

Name: _____________________

1. What are the 12 animals to represent the twelve Earthly Branches?
   
   
   
   
2. What do the 10 Heavenly stems represent? List them all you could find.
   
   
   
   
3. Complete the table for this year:
   
   

   Gregorian calendar	Korean Calendar (tan'gi)	Kanji	Oriental Zodiac (Chinese sign)	Hwan'gap year

   
   
   
4. What is your Chinese (Oriental Zodiac) sign? Write your year of birth along with the animal that represents the year.
   
   
   
   
5. What is your kanji and In what year will you celebrate your hwan'gap?
   
   
   
   
   
6. What are the two calendars used in Korea called in Korean?
   
   
   
   
   
7. What is the date (and year) in the Gregorian Calenar (cf. Julian Calendar) when the Korean alphabet was promulgaged?
   
   
   
   
8. Among the Korean national holidays, which holiday or holidays are observed by the Lunar Calendar and what days are they?
   
   
   
   
9. What are the three most important traditional holidays in Korea and what are the characteristics common to all three?