Chinese New Year - 2005 is the Year of Yiyou, popularly known as the Year of the Rooster. 2004 is the Year of the Monkey. 2003 is the Year of the Goat

Chinese New Year - 2005 is the Year of Yiyou, popularly known as the Year of the Rooster. 2004 is the Year of the Monkey. 2003 is the Year of the GoatChinese calendar has been in continuous use for centuries, which predates the International Calendar (based on the Grigorian Calendar) we use at the present day which goes back only some 425 years. The calendar measures time, from short durations of minutes and hours, to intervals of time measured in months, years and centuries, entirely based on the astronomical observations of the movement of the Sun, Moon and stars. Read more about it.