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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The time between each gēng is 1⁄10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng (一 更) (alternately chū gēng (初更) for "initial watch"); èr gēng (二更); sān gēng (三更); sì gēng (四更); and wǔ gēng (五更). The 5 gēngs in daytime ...

  3. Chinese calendar - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Chinese calendar (traditional Chinese: 農曆; simplified Chinese: 农历; lit. 'agricultural calendar'; traditional Chinese: 陰曆; simplified Chinese: 阴历; lit. ' lunar calendar '), is a lunisolar calendar dating from the Han dynasty that combines solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.

  4. Chinese astrology - Wikipedia

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    Astrology. Chinese astrology is based on traditional Chinese astronomy and the Chinese calendar. Chinese astrology flourished during the Han dynasty (2nd century BC to 2nd century AD). [1] Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy (theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth, and human), and uses the principles of yin and ...

  5. East Asian age reckoning - Wikipedia

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    How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.

  6. Chinese zodiac - Wikipedia

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    Chinese zodiac. The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. [1] The zodiac is very important in traditional Chinese culture and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture. [2]

  7. Solar term - Wikipedia

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    Solar term. A solar term (or jieqi, simplified Chinese: 节气; traditional Chinese: 節氣) is any of twenty-four periods in traditional Chinese lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon. [1] The points are spaced 15° apart along the ecliptic [2] and are used by lunisolar calendars ...

  8. Four Pillars of Destiny - Wikipedia

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    Time of birth: a quarter past 10 at night (10.15 pm) : 辛亥; The main structure of his chart is 傷官 (Shō-Kan), 格. The day of 丁 (in the Chinese calendar) meets April, the month of Do-Yo , the month of 戊, so that we get the Shō-Kan. The most important element and worker in his chart is the 甲 or 乙.

  9. Earthly Branches - Wikipedia

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    Romanization. chishi. The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle[1]) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia. They are indigenous to China, and are themselves Chinese characters, corresponding to words with no concrete meaning other than the associated branch's ordinal position in the list.