Calendar-related legends

The Milky Way, which happened in tens of billions of years, changed the universe. Chaos began to open, the heavens and the earth took shape, and everything settled, which is the law of life.

Di Jun first married He, who is ice-skinned and jade-skinned. In the spring and autumn after the wedding banquet, he had evil thoughts and fell in love with his little sister who was ashamed of flowers, trying to take her for himself and satisfy his sexual desire. Kindly forgave her husband for what he often married. Di Jun said, "You sisters are my greatest happiness." . The monogamous life is harmonious and happy with friends. I don't know how many long years have passed. The two sisters were pregnant and gave birth to 22 children to Di Jun respectively. At first, my sister gave birth to 10 sons, who were called A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Ren and Gui in turn. Their ten brothers are nicknamed "Sun" and called "Sun". Later, my sister often gave birth to twelve daughters, and ten daughters were named Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai in turn. Their twelve sisters are nicknamed "Yue" and are called "Yin Wu" and "Moon". I don't know how many long years have passed. The two sisters abandoned their children and migrated to the "unknown galaxy" with their husbands, and the lost love often hid tears in their hearts.

In China's ten-generation calendar, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren are called "ten-day achievements"; Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai are called "Twelve Branches". They cooperate with each other in a fixed order, forming the calendar year of heavenly stems and earthly branches, which is called "Ji Fa" for short, marking the birth of China calendar. Wen Duo thinks that Fuxi and Pangu are the personification of gourd in Fuxi Kao. Fu's real name is probably "Li Yishi", which means "Li Yi is drifting". Before the invention of pottery, it was a big problem that our ancestors were eager to solve to find a suitable special water intake device. Ancestors may try to get water with various melon skins. In the process of trying from generation to generation, they gradually realized that the gourd was the most suitable tool for fetching water, and gradually formed the gourd-making technology. The ladle-making technology has solved the big problem of drinking water for ancestors, and it is a technological progress comparable to the invention of stone tools and fire. Fu is actually a symbol of the gourd era.

"Historical Records of the Heavenly Palace" contains: "The celestial poles in the palace, one of which is bright, often live in Taiyi." One of the Taiyi stars, also called Ziweixing, is Polaris. There are two famous and obvious constellations around Polaris, the Big Dipper-shaped Ursa major and the W-shaped Andromeda. Generally, you can know these two constellations with a little guidance. The most important thing is the Big Dipper. The ancients attached great importance to Beidou because it can be used to identify the direction and set the season. The Big Dipper appears in different directions in the sky at different seasons and at different times at night, so the ancients decided the seasons according to the direction pointed by bucket handle at the beginning of fainting: bucket handle refers to the spring in the east, bucket handle refers to the summer, bucket handle refers to the autumn in the west, and bucket handle refers to the winter in the north (see the twelfth citation). Spoon is a daily appliance created by people with reference to the shape of ladle after the appearance of pottery. I remember seeing a set of pottery measuring tools in Qin 'an Dadiwan Museum, which is roughly like a short-handled bucket with a slightly rectangular mouth, slightly curved corners and a flat bottom. Obviously, its prototype is a gourd ladle. Until now, China's spoon still has the appearance of a spoon. It can be seen that the calendar originated from astronomical observation of the sky around Polaris. Here, the two main elements, Taiyi and gourd-shaped constellation, are complete. What's wrong with Fu's calendar creation? According to legend, a long time ago, there was a young man named Wannian. One day, he went up the mountain to cut wood, because the sun was too hot, so he sat in the shade and rested. Suddenly, the movement of the shadow on the ground inspired him. After returning home, he spent several days and nights designing sundials. But in cloudy, rainy and foggy days, because there is no sun, the measurement will be affected. Later, the dripping spring on the cliff aroused his interest, and he began to make a five-story clepsydra. As time went on, he found that the length of the weather would repeat every 360 days.

At that time, the monarch was called Zu Ti, and the unexpected weather made him very upset. After hearing about it for ten thousand years, I couldn't help but take a sundial and a clepsydra to see the monarch and tell Zu Ti the truth about the movement of the sun and the moon. Zu Ti was very happy after hearing this, and felt very reasonable. So I left for ten thousand years and built the Sun and Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, as well as the sundial platform and the Leaky Pot Pavilion. Zu Ti said to Wannian, "I hope you can accurately calculate the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the exact time in the morning and evening, and create a calendar to benefit people all over the world. 」

Winter goes and spring comes, year after year. Later, after long-term observation and careful calculation, it took 10 thousand years to calculate the accurate solar calendar. When he showed his successor the solar calendar, he was covered with silver whiskers. The monarch was deeply moved. In order to commemorate the achievements of 10 thousand years, he named the solar calendar "perpetual calendar" and named it the birthday star of the sun, moon and moon.