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Fast Memory Method for Sixty Jiazi
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The sixty Jiazi are respectively:
Jiazi, Yichou, Bingyin, Dingmao, Wuchen, Yisi, Gengwu, Xinwei, Renxu, Guihai,
Jiaxu, Yihai, Bingzi, Dingchou, Wuyin, Yimao, Gengchen, Xinsi, Renwu, Guiwei,
Jiashen, Yiyou, Bingxu, Dinghai, Wzi, Yichou, Gengyin, Xinmao, Renchen, Guisi,
Jiamu, Yiw, Bingchen, Dingyou, Wuxu, Yihai, Gengzi, Xinchou, Reng寅, Guimao,
Jiachen, Yisi, Bingwu, Dingwei, Wushen, Yiyou, Gengxu, Xinha, Renzi, Guichou,
Jiayin, Yimao, Bingchen, Dingsi, Wuwu, Yishen, Gengyou, Xinxu, Renhai, Guihai
Every ten form a group, a total of six groups. Beginners see so many, and carry out mechanical memorization, basically they will not pass this level, and have lost confidence in learning Zhouyi.
In fact, when learning Zhouyi, many things are interlinked. As long as you remember the ten heavenly stems, the twelve earthly branches, and the five elements represented by the heavenly stems and earthly branches, remembering most of the rhymes will save a lot of worry. Now I will publish the fast memory method for the sixty Jiazi that I summarized personally:
The sixty flower Jiazi are divided into six groups, and the beginnings of each group are respectively:
Jiazi Jiaxu Jiashen Jiamu Jiachen Jiayin
Jia is the beginning of the ten heavenly stems, and Zi is the beginning of the twelve earthly branches. This is also the beginning of the first group. As long as we remember the beginning of the first group, it is enough.
The beginning of the first group is: . We then look at the beginning of the second group: , retreats two places backward to be , the beginning of the third group is , and retreats two places backward again to be , and the other three groups also push backward in the same way to get.
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Pronunciation of heavenly stems:
Jia (jiǎ), Yi( yǐ), Bing(bǐng), Ding(dīng), Wu(wù),
Ji(jǐ), Geng(gēng), Xin(xīn), Ren(rén), Gui(guǐ).
Pronunciation of earthly branches:
Zi(zǐ), Chǒu（chǒu）、 Yin（yín）、 Mao（mǎo）、 Chen（chén）、 Si（sì）、
Wu（wǔ）、Wei（wèi）、 Shen（shēn）、 You（yǒu）、 Xu（xū）、 Hai（hài）
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Detailed Explanation of Sixty Jiazi
Time: 2015-03-29 10:08 Source: Unknown Author: Ankang Network Naming and Fortune Telling
What are heavenly stems and earthly branches?
Heavenly stems and earthly branches are abbreviated as "Ganzhi". Heavenly stems: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui; Earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai. The ten stems and the twelve branches are matched in sequence to form sixty basic units. The ancients used this as the serial number of years, months, days, and hours, called "Ganzhi紀法".
As early as 2697 BC, when the ancestor of China, Emperor Huangdi, established the country, he ordered Danao to explore the qi machine of heaven and earth, explore the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth), and first made ten heavenly stems such as Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui, and twelve earthly branches such as Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai. They are matched with each other to form sixty Jiazi as symbols for calendar.
Our country's calendar takes the time for the moon to revolve around the earth (29.5306 days) as one month, and the time for the earth to revolve around the sun (365.2419 days) as one year. In order to make the average number of days in a year match the number of days in a tropical year, intercalary months are set. According to records, in the sixth century BC, China began to use the method of nineteen years and seven intercalary months to coordinate the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Heavenly stems and earthly branches are symbols set out by the ancients when building the calendar for the convenience of 60 carry-over. For the ancient Chinese, the existence of heavenly stems and earthly branches is as simple as Arabic numerals, and later these symbols began to be used on maps, directions, and time (time axis and space axis), so the meanings assigned to these numbers are more and more.
The ancients (one said Emperor Huangdi) observed the synodic month and found that the concept of about two synodic months is 59 days. 12 synodic months are roughly more than 354 days (similar to the length of a tropical year). The ancients therefore got the concept that there are 12 months in a year. In combination with the diary method (ten heavenly stems), a lunisolar calendar is produced, and the current heavenly stems and earthly branches are developed; it should be relatively mature in the three generations of Xia, Shang and Zhou.
Role of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
Archaeological discoveries show that on an oracle bone from the later period of King Di Yi of the Shang Dynasty, there are complete sixty Jiazi, which may be the calendar at that time. This also shows that the Shang Dynasty had already used Ganzhi to record days. According to research, on February Jisi (the tenth day of February in 720 BC) in the third year of Duke Yin of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, a solar eclipse occurred. This is a relatively accurate evidence of China's use of Ganzhi to record days. The use of the emperor's reign year to record years was the establishment of the reign year during the Han Wudi period.
The Ganzhi method has been used in ancient China all the time and has never been interrupted. Therefore, it is very helpful for studying history and very easy to calculate historical time.
Such as "Feng Wanzhen": "Xianfeng Gengshen, the Anglo-French allied forces invaded from the sea." Xianfeng, the emperor's reign year; Gengshen, the Ganzhi year.
China used heavenly stems and earthly branches to record years before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty; from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, it used the emperor's reign year plus heavenly stems and earthly branches to record years; at the beginning of the Republic of China, it used the birth time of the Republic of China to record years and sometimes used the Gregorian calendar. After the Republic of China, the Gregorian calendar was widely used.
Origin of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
In the calendar of ancient China, Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui are called "ten heavenly stems", and Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai are called "twelve earthly branches". The two are matched in a fixed order to form the Ganzhi紀法. From the oracle bone inscriptions unearthed from Yinxu, it can be seen that heavenly stems and earthly branches were mainly used to record days in ancient China, and were also used to record months, years, and hours. Then, who exactly invented the Ganzhi紀法?
Although there are the following some statements to study the origin of Ganzhi, but who exactly invented it? When did it first appear? It has always been a mystery.
About the end of the Warring States Period, the history book "Shiben" compiled according to the materials accumulated by the chroniclers of various countries said: "Rongcheng made the calendar, Danao made Jiazi", "Both of them are ministers of Emperor Huangdi. Since Emperor Huangdi, Jiazi has been used to record days, every sixty days and Jiazi a week". It seems that Ganzhi was created by Danao. Danao "collected the feelings of the five elements, occupied the established position of the fighting machine, first made Jia and Yi to name the day, called Gan; made Zi and Chou to name the month, called Zhi. When there are things in heaven, use the day; when there are things on the ground, use the month. The difference between yin and yang, so there are the names of Gan and Zhi."
Guo Moruo believed in "Explanation of Ganzhi" in "Research on Oracle Bone Inscriptions" that the previous explanations of Ganzhi were all conjectures of literal interpretation. "Ten heavenly stems" are purely the natural occurrence of the decimal counting method, most of which were created by the Yin people. As for the "twelve earthly branches", it originated from Babylon. After comparing the twelve earthly branches in ancient China and the twelve houses in Babylon, it is pointed out that the twelve earthly branches and twelve earthly branches in ancient China both evolved from the twelve houses of the ecliptic in Babylon. The way of its introduction into China can be boldly speculated. Maybe the Shang people "came from the northwest far away, and when they came, they carried the star calendar knowledge imparted by Babylon, and used it after entering China", or "the Shang room originated from the east, and its star calendar knowledge was input by merchants or herdsmen from the west".
Some scholars explore the unique phenomenon that the characters in the ten heavenly stems have been used in the names from the imperial genealogy of the Xia Dynasty in ancient China and the names of all emperors from King Tang of the Shang Dynasty. In order to refute the foreign theory of Ganzhi, Chen Zunwei pointed out in "History of Chinese Astronomy" that "in the Xia Dynasty more than 4,000 years ago, there may have been Ganzhi". Zheng Wenguang, in his book "Origins of Chinese Astronomy", believes that the ten heavenly stems originated from the mythical legend of Fuxi and "born ten days" in ancient China, which is a reflection of the decimal concept in timing and should have been produced in the primitive society of the fishing and hunting era; "twelve earthly branches" evolved from the mythical legend of Changxi "born twelve months", which was produced before the Shang Dynasty and gradually evolved into twelve earthly branches. Therefore, Zheng Wenguang inferred: "Twelve branches should be the creation of the Xia people." Du Shiran et al., in the book "History of Science and Technology in China", advocated that the Xia Dynasty had already had the ten heavenly stems to record days, and the Shang Dynasty, on the basis of the Xia Dynasty's ten heavenly stems to record days, further used the Ganzhi紀法, thus combining the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches to form a 60-cycle day-recording method.
Pronunciation of heavenly stems: Jia (jiǎ), Yi( yǐ), Bing(bǐng), Ding(dīng), Wu(wù), Ji(jǐ), Geng(gēng), Xin(xīn), Ren(rén), Gui(guǐ).
Detailed Explanation of Sixty Jiazi
Meaning of heavenly stems
Jia is the meaning of splitting, referring to all things splitting the shell and coming out.
Yi is the meaning of rolling, referring to all things being born and rolling out.
Bing is the meaning of bright, referring to all things being clearly visible.
Ding is the meaning of strong, referring to all things being strong.
Wu is the meaning of prosperous, referring to all things being prosperous.
Ji is the meaning of record, referring to all things having shapes that can be recorded and recognized.
Geng is the meaning of change, referring to all things converging and having fruits.
Xin is the meaning of new, referring to all things being newly harvested.
Ren is the meaning of allowing, referring to the yang qi allowing and nourishing under all things.
Gui is the meaning of measuring, referring to all things being measurable.
It can be seen that the ten heavenly stems are related to the rising and setting of the sun, and the cycle of the sun has a direct impact on all things.
Pronunciation of earthly branches: Zi(zǐ), Chǒu（chǒu）、 Yin（yín）、 Mao（mǎo）、 Chen（chén）、 Si（sì）、 Wu（wǔ）、 Wei（wèi）、 Shen（shēn）、 You（yǒu）、 Xu（xū）、 Hai（hài）
Meaning of earthly branches
Zi is the meaning of this, referring to all things germinating under the moving yang qi.
Chou is the meaning of knot, the yang qi is above and not descending.
Yin is the meaning of moving, the meaning of leading, referring to all things beginning to be born.
Mao is the meaning of prosperous, referring to all things being prosperous.
Chen is the meaning of shaking, things grow after being shaken.
Si is the meaning of rising, referring to the prosperity of yang qi.
Wu is the meaning of counteracting, referring to all things being large and branchy.
Wei is the meaning of taste, all things are all made and have taste.
Shen is the meaning of body, referring to the bodies of all things being achieved.
You is the meaning of old, all things are old.
Xu is the meaning of extinguishing, all things are completely extinguished.
Hai is the meaning of core, all things are collected.
Sixty Jiazi Order Table
Order
Ganzhi
Order
Ganzhi
1
Jiazi
16
Jimaoh
17
Gengchen
3
Bingyin
18
Xinsi
4
Dingmao
19
Renwu
5
Wuchen
20
Guiwei
6
Yisi
21
Jiashen
7
Gengwu
22
Yiyou
8
Xinwei
23
Bingxu
9
Renxu
24
Dinghai
10
Guihai
25
Wzi
11
Jiaxu
26
Yichou
12
Yihai
27
Gengyin
13
Bingzi
28
Xinmao
14
Dingchou
29
Renchen
15
Wuyin
30
Guisi
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Order
Ganzhi
Order
Ganzhi
31
Jiamu
46
Yiyou
32
Yiw
47
Gengxu
33
Bingchen
48
Xinha
34
Dingyou
49
Renzi
35
Wuxu
50
Guichou
36
Yihai
51
Jiayin
37
Gengzi
52
Yimao
38
Xinchou
53
Bingchen
39
Reng寅
54
Dingsi
40
Guimao
55
Wuwu
41
Jiachen
56
Yishen
42
Yisi
57
Gengyou
43
Bingwu
58
Xinxu
44
Dingwei
59
Renhai
45
Wushen
60
Guihai
Jiazi Naya
The ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches are matched two by two in order. From Jiazi to Guihai, there are sixty combinations, called sixty Jiazi. And each two groups are matched with one Naya five elements. What exactly does it mean, it is still a mystery so far.
Jiazi, Yichou, matched with sea gold;
Bingyin, Dingmao, matched with stove fire;
Wuchen, Yisi, matched with big forest wood;
Gengwu, Xinwei, matched with roadside soil;
Renxu, Guihai, matched with sword edge gold;
Jiaxu, Yihai, matched with mountain top fire;
Bingzi, Dingchou, matched with hole lower water;
Wuyin, Yimao, matched with city wall soil;
Gengchen, Xinsi, matched with white wax gold;
Renwu, Guiwei, matched with willow wood;
Jiashen, Yiyou, matched with spring middle water;
Bingxu, Dinghai, matched with house upper soil;
Wzi, Yichou, matched with thunderbolt fire;
Gengyin, Xinmao, matched with pine cypress wood;
Renchen, Guisi, matched with long flowing water;
Jiamu, Yiw, matched with sand gold;
Bingchen, Dingyou, matched with mountain lower fire;
Wuxu, Yihai, matched with flat ground wood;
Gengzi, Xinchou, matched with wall upper soil;
Reng寅, Guimao, matched with gold foil gold;
Jiachen, Yisi, matched with covered lamp fire;
Bingwu, Dingwei, matched with sky river water;
Wushen, Yiyou, matched with big post road soil;
Gengyou, Xinxu, matched with hairpin gold;
Renzi, Guichou, matched with mulberry柘 wood;
Jiayin, Yimao, matched with big stream water;
Bingchen, Dingsi, matched with sand middle soil;
Wuwu, Yishen, matched with sky upper fire;
Gengyou, Xinxu, matched with pomegranate wood;
Renhai, Guihai, matched with sea big water.
The following extracts "Three命通会" of "On Naya Taking Images" to experience its meaning:
In the past, Emperor Huangdi divided Jiazi into light and heavy and matched them into sixty, named Hua Jiazi. The word Hua is really mysterious. The sage used the meaning to express it, and cannot be deliberately obsessed.
From Zi to Hai twelve palaces, each has the genus of gold, wood, water, fire, earth. It starts from Zi as one yang, ends at Hai as six yin. The five elements belong to gold, wood, water, fire, earth. In the sky are the five stars, on the ground are the five mountains, in virtue are the five constants, in human are the five viscera, and in life are the five elements. Therefore, the genus of Jiazi should correspond to life, and life is the matter of a lifetime. Therefore, the image of Jiazi Naya, the sage expresses it, just like the matter of a lifetime. What does it mean?
Zi and Chou, yin and yang are first conceived, people are in the fetus, things hide their roots, and there is no boundary; Yin and Mao, yin and yang are gradually opened, people are gradually growing, things are splitting the shell, and all flowers are gradually opening, just like people will have a place to stand; Chen and Si, yin and yang qi are prosperous, things should be gorgeous, just like people are thirty or forty and have a place to stand, and there is the beginning of the enterprising image; Wu and Wei, yin and yang are exposed, things have become wonderful, people are at fifty or sixty, and the rich and poor can be known, and all kinds of prosperity and decline can be seen; Shen and You, yin and yang are killing, things have been harvested, people have shrunk, and each has its own tranquility; Xu and Hai, yin and yang are blocked, things qi return to the root, people should rest, and each has its own place. Detailed these twelve positions one after another, sixty Jiazi can be understood step by step.
Why is Jiazi Yichou taken as the sea gold? Because the qi is in the package, there is a name but no shape, just like people in the mother's belly; Ren寅 Guimao is dead and there is gold, the qi is still weak, thin like silk, so it is called gold foil gold. Gengchen Xinsi is in the place of fire and earth, the qi has occurred, the gold is still in the ore, living in the place of breeding, receiving the positive color of the west, so it is called white wax gold; Jiamu Yiw qi has been formed, the matter is self-solid, mixed in the sand and different from the sand, living in the fire and refining in the fire, so it is called sand gold; Renxu Guihai qi is prosperous and the thing is extremely, when it should be the work of convergence, the edge of the sharp blade. Because Shen You is the correct position of gold, the stem is Ren Gui, gold and water are quenched, so it is taken as the sword edge and the function of gold is extremely; to Xu Hai, the gold qi is hidden, the shape has been broken, exercising jewelry, has become its shape, hidden in the boudoir, no place to do, and the function of gold is over, so it is called Gengxu Xinchou hairpin gold.
Why is Renzi Guichou taken as mulberry柘 wood? Because the qi is in the plate bending, the shape is not stretched, living in the water place, the silkworm is declining month, mulberry柘 is getting qi, taking the birth time of it; Gengyin Xinmao qi has taken yang, getting the power of cultivation its shape, but living under gold, all gold and frost are firm, wood living under gets its prosperity, the tree withers after cold, taking its tough nature, so it is called pine cypress wood, Wuchen Yisi qi is not formed, the thing has arrived at the time, the branches and leaves are lush, lush into a forest, taking the prosperity of its wood, so it is called big forest wood; Renwu Guiwei, wood to Wu and die, to Wei and tomb, so willow summer leaves wither, branches and trunks are weak, taking its soft nature; so it is called willow wood; Gengyou Xinxu, the five elements belong to gold and Naya belong to wood, taking it by mutual restraint. Because the wood nature is bitter, only pomegranate wood; Shen You qi returns to quiet, things gradually become solid, wood living in gold place, its taste becomes bitter, so it is called pomegranate wood; see other wood to Wu and die, only this wood to Wu and prosper, taking its partial nature; Wuxu Yihai, qi returns to hide, yin and yang are blocked, wood qi returns to the root, hidden in the soil, so it is called flat ground wood.
Why is Bingzi Dingchou taken as涧 lower water? Because the qi is not connected, the high section is not the place where water flows, the low humidity is the place where water goes, and it travels in the ground, so it is called涧 lower water; Jiayin Yimao, qi comes out of Yangming, water potential depends on the source, flowing eastward, its potential is soaking large, so it is called big stream water; Renchen Guisi, potential is extremely southeast, qi is near Li palace, fire is bright and potential is prosperous, water gets back to the warehouse, full of courses and then progresses, so it is called long flowing water; Wuwu Yishen, qi should rise and fall, in the bright fire position, there is water pouring to make rain, to relieve the water in the fire, only the sky is above, so it is called sky river water; Jiashen Yiyou, qi breath is quiet, mother and son are in the same position, coming out and not ending, drawing and not exhausting, so it is called well spring water; Renhai Guihai, the place of Tianmen, qi returns to block, water power is everywhere and not rushing, potential returns to the position of tranquility, coming and not ending, taking and not overflowing, so it is called sea big water.
Why is Wzi Yichou taken as thunderbolt fire? Because the qi is in one yang, the shape is in the water position, the fire in the water, without the divine dragon, so it is called thunderbolt fire; Bingyin Dingmao, qi gradually shines, because of the firewood and shows, yin and yang are governed, heaven and earth are the furnace, so it is called stove fire; Jiachen Yisi, qi shape is prosperous, potential is fixed on the high hill, passing light and continuing darkness, mother and son inherit, so it is called covered lamp fire; Wuwu Yishen, qi passes the Yang palace, heavy li meets, Bing spirit intersects light, shines and burns up, so it is called sky upper fire; Gengyou Xinxu, qi breath shape is hidden, power is hidden, tortoise shrinks to兑 position, power is weak and body is weak, light is not far, so it is called mountain lower fire; Jiaxu Yihai is called mountain top fire, mountain is the place to hide shape, head is the place to throw light, inner bright and outer dark, hidden and not obvious, flying light to Qian, returning to the rest, so it is called mountain top fire, Gengzi Xinchou why is taken as wall upper soil? qi is in blockage, things are still contained, covering shape and covering body, internal and external not intersecting, so it is called wall upper soil; Wuyin Yimao, qi can form things, work to cultivate things, send out from the root, strengthen the calyx, so it is called city wall soil; Chensi, qi to bear yang, occurrence has passed, form its future, so it is called sand middle soil; Gengwu Xinwei, qi should form, thing to road show, there is shape to quality, there is thing to show, so it is called roadside soil; Wushen Yiyou, qi has returned to rest, thing should converge, tortoise shrinks and retires, beautiful and nothing, so it is called big post road soil; Bingxu Dinghai, qi forms the thing mansion, thing to beauty round, yin and yang have passed, potential gets the period, so it is called house upper soil.
I see the roadside soil, sowing and planting hundreds of grains, the place of Wu Wei, its prosperous growth time; the big post road soil connects all directions, the place of Shen You, its getting friend benefit and smooth reason; the city wall soil takes the function of embankment, the five princes rely on it, establish the country and be the people; the wall upper soil takes the function of powder decoration, the subjects rely on it, love to live and love to live; the sand middle soil, the most moist soil, the soil is moist and then lives, so it forms its future and is useful; the house upper soil, the successful soil, the successful person is quiet, so it stops and does not move. Because it is in the middle of the five elements, it carries the order, masters the right of raising, the three talents and five elements are all indispensable, it is in the high and low and gets the position, lives in the four seasons and has meritorious service, gold gets its sharp and heroic, fire gets its bright and shining, wood gets its splendid and excellent, water gets its flood and not overflow, soil gets its farming and harvesting more abundant. Gathering and not dispersing, must be able to be a mountain, mountain is high; dispersing and not gathering, must be able to be a ground, ground is original. Using it endlessly, generating endlessly, the function of soil is great!
The five elements take images, all divided into yin and yang by opposition, that is, from beginning to end and change. Such as Jiazi Yichou to Jiamu Yiw, sea sand, the distinction of water and soil, the difference between hard and soft; Gengyou Xinxu to Gengxu Xinchou, white wax hairpin gold, Qian Xun different directions, shapes and colors are all complete; Renzi Guihai to Renwu Guiwei, mulberry柘 willow wood, one curve and one soft, shapes and qualities are mostly different; Gengyin Xinmao to Gengyou Xinxu, pine cypress pomegranate wood, one hard and one bitter, tastes are very different; Wuchen Yisi to Wuxu Yihai, big forest flat ground wood, one prosperous and one declining, Xun Qian different directions; Wzi Yichou to Wuwu Yishen, thunderbolt sky upper fire, thunder and lightning whip, sun and moon shine together; Bingyin Dingmao to Gengyou Xinxu, stove mountain lower fire, fire prosperous wood burning, gold prosperous fire extinguishing; Jiachen Yisi to Jiaxu Yihai, covered lamp mountain top fire, containing light afraid of wind, throwing light to Gen; Gengzi Xinchou to Gengwu Xinwei, wall roadside soil, shape divided into gathering and dispersing, category divided into life and death; Wuyin Yimao to Wushen Yiyou, city wall big post road soil, southeast and northwest, Kun Gen positive positions; Chensi to Bingxu Dinghai, sand house upper soil, dry and wet use, change from beginning to end. Looking round and square, no more than prosperous, phase, dead and rest; taking near and far, no escape from gold, wood, water, fire, earth. Distribute the five elements with Ganzhi, and clearly understand from beginning to end with yin and yang. Heaven-made and human-made combined, born, prosperous, dead and dead classified.
Alas! The sixty Jiazi sage just borrowed its image to express its reason, and the five elements' temperament, material, shape and color, function are all described exhaustively and there is no remaining meaning in creation.
Sixty Jiazi Naya Table
Jiazi Yichou Hai gold Bingyin Dingmao Stove fire Wuchen Yisi Big forest wood
Gengwu Xinwei Roadside soil Renxu Guihai Sword edge gold Jiaxu Yihai Mountain top fire
Bingzi Dingchou 涧 lower water Wuyin Yimao City wall soil Gengchen Xinsi White wax gold
Renwu Guiwei Willow wood Jiashen Yiyou Spring middle water Bingxu Dinghai House upper soil
Wzi Yichou Thunderbolt fire Gengyin Xinmao Pine cypress wood Renchen Guisi Long flowing water
Jiamu Yiw Sand gold Bingchen Dingyou Mountain lower fire Wuxu Yihai Flat ground wood
Gengzi Xinchou Wall upper soil Reng寅 Guimao Gold foil gold Jiachen Yisi Covered lamp fire
Wuwu Yishen Sky river water Wushen Yiyou Big post road soil Gengyou Xinxu Hairpin gold
Renzi Guichou Mulberry柘 wood Jiayin Yimao Big stream water Bingchen Dingsi Sand middle soil
Wuwu Yishen Sky upper fire Gengyou Xinxu Pomegranate wood Renhai Guihai Sea big water
Twelve Earthly Branches and Zodiac
Twelve earthly branches and zodiac, twelve earthly branches are also called twelve branches. The general name of Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai. In ancient China, it was matched with heavenly stems to indicate the order of years, months, and hours. The old method of recording time also uses earthly branches to indicate the order, such as Zishi, Choushi, etc.
The twelve zodiac signs are composed of eleven animals from nature, namely rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, pig, and the legendary dragon, which are used to record years, arranged in order as Zishu, Chouniu, Yinhu, Maotu, Chenlong, Sishe, Wuma, Weiyang, Shenhou, Youji, Xugou, Haizhu.
For a long time, many people have regarded the famous work "Lunheng" by Wang Chong, a materialist thinker in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the earliest document recording the twelve zodiac signs. "Lunheng·Wushi" contains: "Yin, wood also, its bird, tiger also. Xu, earth also, its bird, dog also. ……Wu, horse also. Zi, rat also. You, chicken also. Mao, rabbit also. ……Hai, pig also. Wei, sheep also. Chou, cow also. ……Si, snake also. Shen, monkey also." The above quotation has only eleven zodiac signs, and the missing one is dragon. The book "Yandu Pian" also says: "Chen is dragon, Si is snake, the position of Chen and Si is in the southeast. In this way, the twelve zodiac signs are complete.
"Zhouli·Chun官·Feng Xiang Shi" contains: "Palm twelve years, twelve months, twelve times, ten days, the position of twenty-eight stars, distinguish its narrative, to meet the heavenly position." The division of time is accumulated by twelve, one era is twelve years, one year is twelve months, and one day is twelve hours.
"Guoyu·Jin Yu Si" contains: "There are twenty-five descendants of Emperor Huangdi, fourteen of them got their surnames, and they are twelve surnames." Even the emperor's concubines also have the saying of "twelve daughters".
"Hou Hanshu·Xun Shuang Zhuan": "Therefore, the emperor marries twelve concubines, which is the number of heaven; below the prince, each has different levels, which is the descent of things."
In recent years, the "Dark Legend" of the Han ethnic creation epic was discovered in the Shennongjia area, in which there is a story about the origin of Ganzhi: "At the beginning of opening the sky and earth, Xuanhuang rode the chaotic beast to roam, and met Nüwa. There are two meat bags beside Nüwa, there are ten men in the big meat bag, and twelve women in the small meat bag. Xuanhuang said: 'These are the heavenly stem revolution earthly branch gods, to govern the universe.' Therefore, they were respectively named, matched with husband and wife, and became yin and yang. The men are collectively called heavenly stems, and the women are called earthly branches." This creation myth story talks about Ganzhi, talks about Xuanhuang god, Nüwa god, talks about the universe yin and yang, and pushes the "origin" of Ganzhi very far.
In ancient times, it has always been heaven as the main and earth as the subordinate. The ten heavenly stems are also called ten mothers, and the corresponding twelve earthly branches are also called twelve sons. Cai Yong's "Yue Ling Zhang Ju" in the Han Dynasty: "Danao adopted the feelings of the five elements, occupied the established position of the fighting gang, then made Jia and Yi to name the day, called Gan; made Zi and Chou to name the month, called Zhi. Gan and Zhi are matched to form sixty days." Danao is a minister of Emperor Huangdi. Here, forming sixty days, that is, sixty Jiazi, took the least common multiple of ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches. Gan and Zhi are matched in order, from Jiazi Yichou... all the way to Guihai as the sixtieth pair. Just use the last one for both Gan and Zhi. Then arrange it again from Jiazi, this cycle is called a Jiazi. Among them, each heavenly stem appears six times, and each earthly branch appears five times.
The generation of the twelve zodiac signs has an astronomical background. In the primitive era, the ancestors experienced the cycle of cold and heat alternating.
Song Dynasty Hong Hao's "Song Mo Ji Wen" contains: "The Jurchens were originally very small, and the correct calendar did not reach. Their people all did not know the year. When asked, they said 'I have seen the grass several times', because the grass is one green for one year."
Song Dynasty Meng Gong's "Meng Da Bei Lu" also records: "Their custom is that each grass green is one year, and if someone asks their year, they will say how many grasses."
Later, the astronomers found that the cycle of the moon's phases can be used to measure the length of the year, and found that twelve full moons are one year. This discovery is one of the most accurate achievements of the initial calendar. "Twelve" is regarded as the "great number of heaven" conveying the will of heaven. Heavenly stems need earthly branches to accompany, the sun and moon are opposite, the heaven and earth are opposite, so it must be "twelve". Zishu Chouniu... Xugou Haizhu. There are many animals in the world, why did the ancients choose these twelve animals as the zodiac?
Qing Dynasty Liu Xian's "Guangyang Za Ji" quotes Li Changqing's "Song Xia Guan Zhu Yan":
"Why does Zi belong to the rat? Because: the sky opens at Zi, and if it is not consumed, its qi will not open. The rat is a pest. Therefore, in the middle of the night, it is the time when the rat gets the order, so Zi belongs to the rat.
The earth is opened at Chou, and the cow is the thing that opens the earth, so Chou belongs to the cow.
People are born at Yin, and there is life then there is killing. The person who kills is the tiger, and Yin is also the meaning of fear. The most fearful is the tiger, so Yin belongs to the tiger.
Mao is the time when the sun rises. The sun is originally from the Li body, and contains the essence of the lunar rabbit in the middle, so Mao belongs to the rabbit.
Chen is the hexagram of March, when the dragons are walking and raining, so Chen belongs to the dragon.
Si is the hexagram of April, at this time the grass is lush, and the snake gets its place. Also, the snake does not go on the road at Si time, so it belongs to the snake.
Wu is the time when the yang is extreme and one yin is born. The horse is the most powerful and does not leave the ground. The yin category, so Wu belongs to the horse.
Sheep chews the grass at Weishi and sprouts, so Wei belongs to the sheep.
Shen time, the sun sets and the ape cries, and also stretches the arm. For example, the number of qi, when it is about to be chaotic, it will run rampant, so Shen belongs to the monkey.
The time when the moon comes out, the moon is originally the Kan body, and contains the essence of the golden rooster in the middle, so it originally belongs to the chicken.
Hai time, the pig has nothing to know except eating and drinking, so Hai belongs to the pig."
Another saying is that the selection and arrangement of the twelve zodiac signs are determined according to the activity time of the animals every day.
Our country has at least since the Han Dynasty, already divided a day and night into twelve hours and used the twelve earthly branches timing method to record these twelve hours (big time), each hour is equivalent to two hours, so one day and night is the current twenty-four hours.
From eleven o'clock at night to one o'clock in the morning is Zishi, when the mouse is the most active.
From one o'clock to three o'clock in the morning is Choushi, when the cow is regurgitating. It is also said that it is the time when the cow begins to plow.
From three o'clock to five o'clock is Yinshi, when the tiger is wandering around looking for food, the most fierce.
From five o'clock to seven o'clock is Maoshi, when the sun has not yet risen, the moon is still hanging in the sky, when the jade rabbit is making medicine. The rabbits on earth also start to forage.
From seven o'clock to nine o'clock in the morning is Chenshi, this is the good time for the dragon to rain.
From nine o'clock to eleven o'clock is Sishi, when the snake starts to be active.
From eleven o'clock in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon, the yang qi is flourishing, it is Wushi, when the celestial horse is in the sky.
From one o'clock to three o'clock in the afternoon is Weishi, when the sheep eats grass, it will grow stronger.
From three o'clock to five o'clock in the afternoon is Shenshi, when the monkey is active.
From five o'clock to seven o'clock is Youshi, when night falls, the chicken begins to return to the nest.
From seven o'clock to nine o'clock in the evening is Xushi, when the dog begins to keep watch.
From nine o'clock to eleven o'clock in the evening is Haishi, at this time all is silent, and the pig is snoring.
Regarding the arrangement of the twelve zodiac signs, there are various legends. Such stories are either like happy and amusing jokes, or like fables of slandering evil and promoting good, with a strong literary component. However, the arrangement of the zodiac signs was not completed in one day or by one generation. Initially, there may not have been twelve at one time, maybe only four or five, maybe there was an excessive situation. Later, the superior and inferior were eliminated, the quota was set and the position was fixed, and it has been passed down to this day.
Sixty Jiazi Zodiac Ganzhi Year Comparison Table
Jiazi 1924 Rat
Jiashen 1944 Monkey
Jiachen 1964 Dragon
Jiazi 1984 Rat
Jiashen 2004 Monkey
Yichou 1925 Ox
Yiyou 1945 Chicken
Yisi 1965 Snake
Yichou 1985 Ox
Yiyou 2005 Chicken
Bingyin 1926 Tiger
Bingxu 1946 Dog
Wuchen 1966 Horse
Bingyin 1986 Tiger
Bingxu 2006 Dog
Dingmao 1927 Rabbit
Dinghai 1947 Pig
Wushen 1967 Sheep
Dingmao 1987 Rabbit
Dinghai 2007 Pig
Wuchen 1928 Dragon
Wzi 1948 Rat
Gengyin 1968 Monkey
Wuchen 1988 Dragon
Wzi 2008 Rat
Yisi 1929 Snake
Yichou 1949 Ox
Xinmao 1969 Chicken
Yisi 1989 Snake
Yichou 2009 Ox
Gengwu 1930 Horse
Gengyin 1950 Tiger
Gengxu 1970 Dog
Gengwu 1990 Horse
Gengyin 2010 Tiger
Xinwei 1931 Sheep
Xinmao 1951 Rabbit
Xinha 1971 Pig
Xinwei 1991 Sheep
Xinmao 2011 Rabbit
Renxu 1932 Monkey
Renchen 1952 Dragon
Renzi 1972 Rat
Renxu 1992 Monkey
Renchen 2012 Dragon
Guihai 1933 Chicken
Guisi 1953 Snake
Guichou 1973 Ox
Guihai 1993 Chicken
Guisi 2013 Snake
Jiaxu 1934 Dog
Jiamu 1954 Horse
Jiayin 1974 Tiger
Jiaxu 1994 Dog
Jiamu 2014 Horse
Yihai 1935 Pig
Yiw 1955 Sheep
Yimao 1975 Rabbit
Yihai 1995 Pig
Yiw 2015 Sheep
Bingzi 1936 Rat
Bingchen 1956 Monkey
Bingchen 1976 Dragon
Bingzi 1996 Rat
Bingchen 2016 Monkey
Dingchou 1937 Ox
Dingyou 1957 Chicken
Dingsi 1977 Snake
Dingchou 1997 Ox
Dingyou 2017 Chicken
Wuyin 1938 Tiger
Wuxu 1958 Dog
Wuwu 1978 Horse
Wuyin 1998 Tiger
Wuxu 2018 Dog
Yimao 1939 Rabbit
Yihai 1959 Pig
Yishen 1979 Sheep
Yimao 1999 Rabbit
Yihai 2019 Pig
Gengchen 1940 Dragon
Gengzi 1960 Rat
Gengyou 1980 Monkey
Gengchen 2000 Dragon
Gengzi 2020 Rat
Xinsi 1941 Snake
Xinchou 1961 Ox
Xinxu 1981 Chicken
Xinsi 2001 Snake
Xinchou 2021 Ox
Renwu 1942 Horse
Reng寅 1962 Tiger
Renhai 1982 Dog
Renwu 2002 Horse
Reng寅 2022 Tiger
Guiwei 1943 Sheep
Guimao 1963 Rabbit
Guihai 1983 Pig
Guiwei 2003 Sheep
Guimao 2023 Rabbit
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