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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The number of fēn in each kè varied over the centuries, [2] but a fēn was generally defined as 1 ⁄ 6000 of a day. [6] Using this definition, one fēn is equal to 14.4 seconds. This also means that a fēn is 1 ⁄ 60 of a major kè and 1 ⁄ 10 of a minor kè.

  3. Chinese calendar - Wikipedia

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    Days one to 10 are written with the day's numeral, preceded by the character Chū ; Chūyī is the first day of the month, and Chūshí (初 十) the 10th. Days 11 to 20 are written as regular Chinese numerals; Shíwǔ is the 15th day of the month, and Èrshí the 20th.

  4. Chengyu - Wikipedia

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    According to the most stringent definition, there are about 5,000 chengyu in the Chinese language, though some dictionaries list over 20,000. Chengyu are considered the collected wisdom of the Chinese culture , and contain the experiences, moral concepts, and admonishments from previous generations of Chinese speakers.

  5. Shuowen Jiezi - Wikipedia

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    The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi contains the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, where Xu attempted to provide rationales for their construction.

  6. Yangzhou massacre - Wikipedia

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    The massacre is described in a contemporary account, A Record of Ten Days in Yangzhou, by Wang Xiuchu. Due to the title of the account, the events are often referred to as a ten-day massacre, but the diary shows that the slaughter was over by the sixth day, when burial of bodies commenced. [ 1 ]

  7. 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.

  8. Republic of China calendar - Wikipedia

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    One alternative to this approach was to use the reign of the semi-legendary Yellow Emperor in the third millennium BC to number the years. [2] In the early 20th century, some Chinese republicans began to advocate such a system of continuously numbered years, so that year markings would be independent of the monarch's era name.

  9. Solar term - Wikipedia

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    The modern definition using ecliptic longitudes, introduced by the Shixian calendar, is known as 定气法 (dìng qì fǎ, ' steady term method '). Under this method, the determination of solar terms is similar to the astronomical determination of the special cases of equinox and solstice dates, with different ecliptic longitudes to solve for.