What does an hour in China mean?

In the traditional culture of China, one day and night is divided into twelve hours, each hour is equivalent to the present two hours, and the twelve hours are named after twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai; Each hour is divided into three parts, namely initial time, timing time and last time; Every morning 1 1 till midnight 1, and so on. It can be seen that the traditional dividing line of a new day in China is eleven o'clock at midnight, instead of twelve o'clock (zero point) used in the current Gregorian calendar.

23- 1 belongs to water; 1-3 belongs to soil.

3-5 Genus of Yin Shi 5-7 Genus of Shi Mao

7-9 Chenshu 9- 1 1 Chenshu fire.

1 1- 13 belongs to fire at noon, and 13- 15 finally belongs to soil.

15- 17 belongs to gold when applying, and 17- 19 belongs to gold when applying.

19-2 1 is soil; 2 1-23 is water.

In ancient China, a day was divided into twelve hours, and each hour was equal to two hours now. According to legend, the ancients named each time according to the time of animals in the zodiac. (The picture shows the time booth)

[Edit this paragraph] [Explain]

1. Old time unit. Divide a day and a night into twelve sections, each called one hour, which is now two hours. Twelve o'clock is named after the earthly branch, starting from midnight, and it is midnight at midnight, and noon at noon. Song Su Shi's "Three Provinces and Six Horizontal Lakes Open": "The gate is under the jurisdiction of newly-built money. Although it is closed for one or two hours at high tide ... those who want to enter and leave the gate by public or private boats will not sit still until it is closed." Clear sky peach blossom left: "the day is short and the night is long, three hours away." Act II of Cao Yu's Wang Zhaojun: "Half an hour ago, he accompanied the son of heaven to dinner."

2. Generally refers to time or time. Jin Dong's explanation of the first volume of The West Chamber is: "There is not an hour I don't miss, and there is not a night I don't dream." Journey to the West replied for the fourth time: "All this work is just a waste of time, and it took an hour." Wei Wei's "Oriental" Chapter 23 Part 4: "This is called: It's not that you don't report, it's not the time."

Animals whose time is equal to the present time and why.

Son; Children (from 1 1 in the evening to 1 in the morning) jump the most at this time.

Ugly: Ugly (65438+ 0: 00 a.m. to 3: 00 a.m.) Niu Niu finished the grass and was ready to plow the field.

It's cloudy (3:00-5:00 a.m.) at this time, the tiger is the fiercest.

Mao (5:00-7:00 am) Rabbit Moon, also known as Jade Rabbit, is still in the sky during this time.

Chen: Chen (7: 00 a.m. to 9: 00 a.m.) According to the legend of dragons, this is the time when "dragons pray for rain".

Si (9: 00 am to 165438+ 0: 00 am) The snake is hiding in the grass at this time.

Noon: Wu (from 1 1 am to 1 pm), the sun is strongest at this time. It is said that at this time, yang will reach its limit, yin will be produced, and horses are female animals.

Wei (1: 00 to 3: 00 pm) sheep eat grass during this time.

Shen: (from 3 pm to 5 pm) Monkeys like to crow at this time.

You (5: 00 pm to 7: 00 pm) start to return to the nest at night.

Xu (7: 00 pm to 9: 00 pm) Dogs and dogs start to watch the door.

Sea: Sea (9: 00 pm 1 1 pm) Pigs sleep at night.

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The ancient ones are calculated by time.

7: 00 pm -9: 00 pm is the watch.

9 o'clock-1 1 is the second table.

1 1 till midnight 1 is the third night.

It's four to three,

3: 00 to 5: 00 is the fifth watch

Time in Zhouyi

Time is based on local time.

When judging the eight-character numerology, it is often sometimes inaccurate, mostly because the time is wrong. In our life, Beijing standard time is used uniformly throughout the country. The time difference between the north and the south of China is not too big, but there is a big difference between the east and the west. We should judge our fate strictly according to the time of birth.

Beijing time, to be exact, refers to 120& hour; 127 degrees, different areas in the east or west should be calculated according to the local east longitude.

It takes 24 hours for the earth to rotate once (360 degrees). 127 minutes, every 4 minutes 1 degree (the distance between 1 degree is 4 minutes). Other areas can be calculated according to this. For example: the eastern half of Heilongjiang130&; 127 degrees, Beijing time 1 1:20, local12&; 127 (12-(10× 4) =11:20).

East longitude 120 degrees Beijing time 12 minutes other areas

East longitude time comparison table

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East longitude 75 80 85 90 95 100 105

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Time │ 9: 00 │ 9: 20 │ 9: 40 │10: 00 │10: 20 │1:00.

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East longitude │110 │15 │125 │130 │135 │140.

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Time │11:20 │1:40 │12: 20 │12: 40 │13: 00.

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Another example: the western half of Tibet and the central part of Xinjiang are located at 85 degrees east longitude. As you can see from the above table, Beijing time is14: 20&; 127 is local time 12, with time difference of 2 hours and 40 minutes. Since Beijing is about 1 17 degrees east, Beijing time is 12: 12, which is the local standard time in Beijing.

In ancient astrology, we first looked at the house where the sun was, and then added the time of birth to the house where the sun was, from the beginning to the end. It can be seen that when ancient astrologers infer a person's fate, they all take the sun as their destiny, not unitary as their destiny. Because the time to see the sun is different in different longitude areas, the local time must prevail when judging the life span by the time of birth.

[Edit this paragraph] The time of birth is closely related to you.

In the study of four pillars and eight characters, the month of birth has the greatest influence on a person, followed by the time. Because the annual column is far from the solar column, the year of birth has a weak influence on the study of the eight characters. However, because everyone knows the zodiac, it is natural to pay attention to the effect of the zodiac when it is widely respected. However, the time of birth is related to the rest of one's life. If it is converted into the palace of the sinus, then the time column corresponds to the palace of the daughter, the palace of the servant and the palace of the career.

Some people cannot know the date of birth for various reasons. However, according to the following information, it can not only help you understand some of your innate characteristics, but also help you identify your birth time.

Born in childhood: strong personality, impatience, easy to see things repeatedly, high probability of causing trouble, great help from parents and wife, and the ability to start from scratch.

Born in an ugly time: I have a thin relationship with my parents, a sense of nobility, and a strong tendency in career development. I am a lucky person.

Born in Yin Shi: I am estranged from my parents, siblings, husband and wife. I have left my hometown, and my luck was not smooth in the early stage, but my luck got better in the middle and late stage, so I can flourish.

Born in Shimao: The help of parents, brothers and sisters is limited, but it cannot be effective. They had bad luck in the early and middle stages and were not very successful in doing things. Their luck was late, and they were stable at first. Even if they have ancestors, they can't stay.

Born in the morning: parents, brothers and sisters have made considerable achievements. I'm smart. I can succeed early, but I get hurt halfway, and I can get good grades later and enjoy my old age.

Four-year-old students: smart people, luck can show their talents early. Although he worked hard, he was successful, and he was able to start his own business, and his relationship with his brothers and sisters was relatively thin.

Born at noon: independent of ancestors, able to stand on one's own feet, kind-hearted, with a distinct personality, lucky and comfortable in his early years, charitable and enjoying his old age.

Unfortunate birth: parents don't love each other, have no love or are doomed to be heartless, and couples are prone to disagreement. Hard-working people see wealth early, fear in the middle, danger in the ring, and more money late.

Born in Shenshi: In order to leave home, I was even more disobedient because of bad luck. Among the brothers and sisters, some died early, and some died young. Husband and wife grow old together, kindness is near expensive, and good luck is good at night.

You's birth: It is a blessed family, but the relationship between six parents is changeable, and it is difficult for children, brothers, parents and couples. There are many emotional entanglements, and the luck in the early stage is uncertain, and the luck in the middle and late stages is better.

Date of birth: Handsome and smart people, happy life, but look at the ups and downs of fortune, junior high school wealth is safe and auspicious, and later wealth can be attributed to ancestral property or growth shadow!

Born in Shihai: I am outspoken, diligent all my life and easy to get into trouble. It's hard to keep your ancestors' business in the early days, auspicious in the late days, and beautiful in the late days!

[Edit this paragraph] The role of time in dreams

Time is a method of timing in ancient China. 24 hours * * * is divided into 12 hours, starting from 1 1 at night, corresponding to 12: zi, ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You,.

Yin Mao Mu was born in the afternoon fire.

In the afternoon, the fire started, which was ugly.

Chen ugly soil gives birth to Shen (Chen ugly hides water, wet soil can give birth to gold;

If there is no fire, dry soil will make gold brittle.

Shen gave birth to Haizi water,

Haizi aquatic Maoyinmu.

[Edit this paragraph] [Time history]

1, twelve o'clock system. It was used in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, it was named Midnight, Crow, Pingdan, Sunrise, Food Time, Horn, Japan-China, Sundial, Sunset, Dusk and Man's Decision. It is also expressed by the twelve earthly branches, and it is the child time from 23: 00 to 1 at midnight, the ugly time from 1 to 3: 00, and the Yin Shi time from 3: 00 to 5: 00, which are recursive in turn.

Midnight, also known as midnight and midnight: the first hour of twelve o'clock. (23: 00 to 0 1 hour).

Ugly cock crow, also known as pheasant: the second hour of twelve o'clock. (0 1 to 03: 00).

Yin Shiping Dan, also known as Dawn, Dawn and Sundan, etc. Time is the alternation of day and night. (03 o'clock to 05 o'clock).

Sunrise in Shi Mao, also known as the beginning of the day, dawn and rising sun, refers to the time when the sun just appeared and Ran Ran first rose. (05: 00 to 07: 00)

When eating in the morning, it is also called breakfast. When the ancients ate in the morning, it was breakfast time (07:00 ~ 09:00).

Forty holes, also known as Yu Ri, etc. : near noon, call the corner. (09: 00 to 1 1: 00).

Noon noon, also known as the sun, noon, etc. : (1 1 to 13).

Not long ago, it was also called sunset, sun center and so on. : The sun sets in the west. (from 13 to 15).

When applying for regular feeding, it is also called late eating in a day shop. : (from 15 to 17).

As time goes by, it is also called sunset, sunset and evening: it means when the sun goes down. (From 17 to 19)

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Dusk, also known as sunset, sunset glow, dusk, etc. At this time, the sun has set and the sky will be dark. The world is dark and everything is hazy, so it is called dusk. (from 19 to 2 1).

At this time, it was already late at night, and people stopped their activities and had a rest. Calm means quiet. (2 1 to 23: 00).

2.24-hour system. After the Song Dynasty, twelve o'clock was divided into two parts, namely, the beginning of the son, the beginning of the son, the beginning of ugliness, and the beginning of ugliness ... In turn, it happened to be 24 hours, which is consistent with the current 24 hours a day.

3. Ten-hour system. Appeared in the pre-Qin period. Five minutes during the day and five minutes at night. According to annals, a day is morning, evening, noon and noon. Night is a, b, c, d and e (later represented by five tables). In other words, it is more important-in ancient times, it was regarded as night watch, sea watch, childhood watch, childhood watch, ugly watch and Yin Shi watch. There are five classes at night, and drums are played according to the class, with five points for each class. One hour per shift is equivalent to two hours now, which is 120 minutes, so each point in each shift only takes 24 minutes. It can be seen that "cooking at four o'clock and sailing at five o'clock" is equivalent to "65438+ cooking at 0: 00 to 3: 00 in the middle of the night and sailing at 3: 00 to 5: 00". "5: 00 and 3: 00" are equivalent to 5: 00 and 72 minutes in the morning, namely 6: 00 and 12 minutes, and "3: 00 and 4: 00" are equivalent to 1 and 96 minutes at midnight, namely 2: 36 minutes.

4. Five-hour system. Its names are Chen Ming, Yong Ming, Dan Ming, flea (early) food, banquet (late) food, corner, center, less return, shop time, big return, high return, low return, county (hanging) east, dusk, and ding faint. See Huai Nan Zi. Astronomical training.

5, a hundred minutes. That is to say, day and night are divided into a balanced one hundred quarters. Its production is related to the use of missing prints. May have originated in Shang Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, it was changed to 120, and in the Southern Dynasty, it was changed to 96, 108. After many twists and turns, it was not until the introduction of European astronomical knowledge in the late Ming Dynasty that the reform of 96 engraving books was put forward and made it a formal system in the early Qing Dynasty.

6. Ancient times did not necessarily have strict temporal significance, but there were quite a few common and commonly used names. Generally speaking, sunrise can be called Dan, Zao, Chao and Chen, and sunrise can be called evening, dusk and evening. When the sun is in the middle, it is called noon, noon and pavilion noon, when it is near noon, it is called angle, and when it is west, it is called day. After sunset, it is dusk. After dusk, it's up to people. After a person is appointed, it is midnight (or midnight). After midnight, the chicken crowed. After the cock crow, it is ignorant and dull-this is the time when it is already dawn. The ancients had two meals a day, and the last meal was before sunrise, which was called eating time or eating early; After sundial, before sunset, it is time to have dinner. This time is called "time".