April 10 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. will usher in the first "Year of the Dragon, Dragon Moon, Dragon Day, Dragon Hour" of the year. This year, there will be three "Year of the Dragon", which is an interesting phenomenon formed by using the traditional stem branch and zodiac rules to mark the year, month, day, and hour.
Wang Kechao, director of science popularization at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced that A, B, C, D, pente, hexagen, xin, and non decay are ten heavenly stems, and Zichouyin Maochen Siwu is not Shen Youxuhai for 12 earthly branches, and they are arranged into 60 stem and branch combinations: Jiazi and Yichou...... 癸海, in order to record the chronological and daily sequences, and so on.
The Chinese lunar calendar still uses the Ganzhi year and the day, and the lunar year is named according to the Ganzhi and Zodiac laws, such as this year is the Jiachen Dragon Year, and the lunar calendar is named according to the number order and the Ganzhi method. Wang Kechao said that the current lunar calendar uses the synodic month as the standard for dividing the months, and uses numbers to determine the monthly order, but more than 2,000 years ago, the ancients have used the twelve earthly branches to mark the months, and the lunar calendar where the winter solstice solar term is located November as the sub-month, December as the ugly month, and the first month as the Yin month...... And so on, and use it with the heavenly stem. According to this kind of cadre and branch discipline law, the fifteenth day of the first month of this year can also be called: the first day of the first month of the first month of the first year.
Ancient China also used the Ganzhi time, that is, a day and night were divided into 12 hours, and the 12 earthly branches were used to cycle the time. Corresponds to the 24 hours of the day, two hours are an hour, a sub-hour is from 23 o'clock to 1 o'clock, and the ugly hour is from 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock...... The hour corresponds from 21 o'clock to 23 o'clock.
"The ancients of the mainland corresponded to each earth branch with the 12 zodiac signs, this year is the year of the dragon, the so-called dragon month, dragon day, and dragon time are the moon, the day, and the time. Wang Kechao said that in 2024, there will be three dragon days in the dragon moon of the year of the dragon, so there will be three "dragon moon dragon day dragon hours" on April 10, April 22 and May 4 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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