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Relationship between the current Sexagenary cycle and Gregorian calendar. This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Sign in the Chinese zodiac Goat "Goat" in regular Chinese characters Chinese 羊 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin yáng Wade–Giles yang 2 IPA [jǎŋ] Hakka Romanization yông Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization yèuhng Jyutping joeng4 IPA [jœŋ˩] Southern Min Hokkien POJ ...
Translates to Goat.During this month, goats are said to not give birth. As such, it is considered a taboo for a couple within the Shona societies to get married in November. December: Zvita: A time of giving thanks for having made it through the year. Derived from Mazvita, which means 'thank you' in Shona.
The Shujiu cold days (數九; shǔjǐu; 'counting to nine') are the 81 days after the winter solstice (divided into nine sets of nine days), and are considered the coldest days of the year. Each nine-day unit is known by its order in the set, followed by "nine" (九). [12]
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 yang, wuxing (five phases), the ten Heavenly Stems, the twelve Earthly Branches, the lunisolar calendar (moon calendar and sun calendar), and the time calculation after year, month, day ...
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 twelve-year cycle. [1] The zodiac is very important in traditional Chinese culture and exists as a reflection of Chinese philosophy and culture . [ 2 ]
The earliest attested use of the Earthly Branches and Heavenly Stems is in recording cycles of days. [1] The ten Heavenly Stems provided names for the days of the week during the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1050 BC). The Branches are at least as old as the Stems, with archaeological evidence suggesting they may actually be older.
Days were also divided into smaller units, called kè . One kè was usually defined as 1 ⁄ 100 of a day until 1628, though there were short periods before then where days had 96, 108 or 120 kè. [2] kè literally means "mark" or "engraving", referring to the marks placed on sundials [4] or water clocks [5] to help keep time.