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  2. Meridian (Chinese medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The meridian system (simplified Chinese: 经络; traditional Chinese: 經絡; pinyin: jīngluò; lit. 'meridian and collaterals', also called channel network) is a pseudoscientific concept from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that alleges meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as "qi" (ch'i) flows.

  3. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    This first shí traditionally occurred from 23:00 to 01:00 on the 24-hour clock, but was changed during the Song dynasty so that it fell from 00:00 to 02:00, with midnight at the beginning. [ 2 ] Starting from the end of the Tang dynasty into the Song dynasty, each shí was divided in half, with the first half called the initial hour ( 初 ...

  4. Time in China - Wikipedia

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    The National Time Service Center in Mount Li, Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi. In the 1870s, the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory was constructed by a French Catholic missionary. In 1880s officials in Shanghai French Concession started to provide a time announcement service using the Shanghai Mean Solar Time provided by the aforementioned observatory for ships into and out of Shanghai.

  5. List of acupuncture points - Wikipedia

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    System of main meridians with acupuncture point locations. This article provides a comprehensive list of acupuncture points, locations on the body used in acupuncture, acupressure, and other treatment systems based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

  6. History of longitude - Wikipedia

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    The clock would be set to the local time of a starting point whose longitude was known, and the longitude of any other place could be determined by comparing its local time with the clock time: [54] there is a four-minute difference between locally observed noon and clock noon for each degree of longitude east or west of the initial meridian.

  7. BPM (time service) - Wikipedia

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    BPM time signal in waterfall. BPM is the call sign of the official short-wave time signal service of the People's Republic of China, operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, broadcasting from CAS's National Time Service Center in Pucheng County, Shaanxi at , roughly 70 km northeast of Lintong, [1] along with NTSC's long-wave time signal BPL on 100

  8. Longitude - Wikipedia

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    Meridians are imaginary semicircular lines running from pole to pole that connect points with the same longitude. The prime meridian defines 0° longitude; by convention the International Reference Meridian for the Earth passes near the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London on the island of Great Britain. Positive longitudes are ...

  9. Acupuncture - Wikipedia

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    Scientific investigation has not found any histological or physiological evidence for traditional Chinese concepts such as qi, meridians, and acupuncture points, [d] [23] and many modern practitioners no longer support the existence of qi or meridians, which was a major part of early belief systems.