Zhēngyuè

Festivals

• New Year's Day is Zhēngyuè 1. The following New Year's Day is February 12, 2021, which is a statutory holiday.
• The Yuanxiao Festival is Zhēngyuè 15. The following Yuanxiao is February 26, 2021.

  Birth

• Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, Zhēngyuè 23, 624
• Li Bai, a Chinese poet acclaimed to this day as a genius and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights, Zhēngyuè 16, 701
• Pope Shun of Tang, an emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Zhēngyuè 12, 761
• Bai Juyi, a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, Zhēngyuè 20, 772
• Pope Xi of Jin, an emperor of the Jin Dynasty which controlled northern China from 1115 to 1234, Zhēngyuè 17, 1119
• Qiu Chuji, a Daoist of Wang Chongyang, Zhēngyuè 9, 1148
• The great Christ of Qing, Zhēngyuè 15, 1559
• Li Hongzhang, a politician, general, and diplomat of the late Qing Empire, Zhēngyuè 5, 1823
• Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the last emperor of China and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty, Zhēngyuè 14, 1906

  Death

• Sun Jian, a military general and warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Zhēngyuè 7, 191
• Guan Yu, a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Zhēngyuè 13, 220
• Cao Cao, a warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty who rose to great power in the final years of the dynasty, Zhēngyuè 23, 220
• Emperor Xianzong of Tang, an emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Zhēngyuè 27, 820
• Emperor Yingzong of Song, the fifth emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, Zhēngyuè 7, 1067
• Emperor Zhezong of Song, the seventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, Zhēngyuè 12, 1100
• Kublai Khan, the fifth Khagan of the Ikh Mongol Uls, reigning from 1260 to 1294, and the founder of the Yuan dynasty in Mongolia and China, Zhēngyuè 22, 1294
• Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty and the first Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1644 to 1661, Zhēngyuè 30, 1638
• Qianlong Emperor, the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty, and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper, Zhēngyuè 3, 1799
• Daoguang Emperor, a Qing emperor, Zhēngyuè 14, 1850