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<sect id="introduction">Introduction</sect>
    
<p>The calendrical system used in the Qin and Early Han dynasties (221 BCE &ndash; 104 BCE) has been puzzled by scholars in the past centuries. According to <i>Sh&#464;j&#236;</i> (&#21490;&#35352; or <i>Records of the Scribe</i>), the calendar used by the early Han dynasty was the same as that of the Qin dynasty (221 BCE &ndash; 207 BCE). <i>H&#224;nsh&#363