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The traditional calendar used the sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system's mathematically repeating cycles of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Together with astronomical, horological, and phenologic observations, definitions, measurements, and predictions of years, months, and days were refined to an accurate standard. Astronomical phenomena and calculations emphasized especially the efforts to mathematically correlate the solar and lunar cycles from the perspective of the earth, which, however, are known to require some degree of numeric approximation or compromises. The general use of the Gregorian calendar includes the observing traditional lunisolar holidays.

中国历法是根据太阳和月球运转法则制定的,是世上唯一的!

The Chinese calendar is formulated based on the laws of the movement of the sun and the moon, and it is the only one in the world!

Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches

Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are two sets of signs in a certain sequence, which were created by ancient Chinese people to calculate the history and record the chronological sequence of events.

The Origin of Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branches

As early as about 2700BC, the ancestor of Chinese nation, Yellow Emperor (Huangdi), sent Da Rao Shi to create a calendar system. Da Rao Shi explored the rule of changes between sky and earth, as well as that of the four seasons. Then he created ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches to make combinations representing a sexagenary cycle. A year can be represented by the composition of two characters, one from the heavenly set, and one from the other. That is believed to be the start of the stem-branch calendar. Thus came a way of counting time which has been passed down through thousands of years.

干支纪年法 (sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system)

sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system

The Heavenly Stems

 甲  乙  丙  丁  戊  己  庚  辛  壬  癸
 jiǎ  yǐ  bǐng  dīng  wù  jǐ  gēng  xīn  rén  guǐ
 Jia  Yi     Bing  Ding  Wu  Ji  Geng  Xin  Ren  Gui

 

Earthly Branches  

Earthly Branches can be used to count time of years, months and hours. When counting years, people use them with the 12 Chinese zodiacs and strictly one Earthly Branch corresponds to one fixed zodiac. For example, our ancestors have divided a day and night into twelve sections and named each as a 时辰(shi chen), which is equal to today's two hours and has a fixed Earthly Branch name. From 11 pm at night to 1 am is decided to be the first one 子时(zi shi), then the second two hours 丑时(chou shi), on the analogy of this.

 子  丑  寅  卯  辰  巳  午  未  申  酉  戌  亥
 zǐ  chǒu  yín  maǒ  chén  sì  wǔ  weì  shēn  yǒu  xū  haì
 Zi  Chou  Yin  Mao  Chen  Si  Wu  Wei  Shen  You  Xu  Hai
 Rat  Ox  Tiger  Rabbit  Dragon  Snake  Horse  Sheep  Monkey  Rooster  Dog  Pig

 

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Take the year of 2025 for example, 2025 is also called as 乙巳年(yǐ sì), a combination of the second sign in Heavenly Stems and the sixth one in the Earthly Branches.

The year 2025, defined by the Heavenly Stem 乙(yǐ) sector (Wood of five elements) and the Earthly Branch 巳(sì) sector (Fire of five elements), forms a dynamic interaction of Wood and Fire energies.


有畫說藝: 2025是蛇年,老人說「青蛇閏六月,紅衣度雙春」,有何講究?

 


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