This is not "YouShi TCM academic: day

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This is not "YouShi TCM academic: day Beam hualong Henan college of traditional Chinese medicine

About the "day" has mostly in treatise on febrile disease, and that most physicians are generally interpreted as "ShenYou afternoon hours", although is not much difference on the time, but the concept is very different.

To understand the "day" has mostly what a period of time, must first understand the different kinds of timing methods: 12 have originated in Egypt, began in the western zhou dynasty from birth, and formed in the western han dynasty xvi or fully restored, are according to the different natural phenomena or different habits, such as division, carried out on a day and night and the system is formed.

The ancient three methods of timing

Twelve hours system originated in Egypt, from dusk to dawn can be divided into 12 hours a day, from dawn to dusk is divided into 12 hours. Early Romans began to use 12 hours, an average throughout the day is divided into 12 hours, so a year, because of the length of day and night is different, so the length of each day is different, and even at night can be divided into three hours. This is because before the invention of the clock and watch people use the sun as a timing tool, so there is no way to accurately time. Clock was invented after the day and night is divided into 12 hours each, and its length also become equal and fixed, not because the length of day and night change with the different season, this is the 24-hour now.

From birth, also known as the twelve earthly branches. The ancients the week of the orbit of Jupiter is divided into 12 equal, Jupiter's orbital period is about 12 years, so the ancient Chinese calendar with Jupiter, called "Jupiter". Later, and naming of these 12 part, this is the twelve earthly branches. Earthly branch loop is used, a cycle of 12, respectively, "son, ugly and Yin, sockets, and the third, and before noon, shen, unitary, and hai", often with air-dried "a, b, c, d, e, f, g, essien, nonyl, decyl". From jia to decyl hai, a 60 cycle, called a 16, is used to record year, month, day, hour.

Calendar, each number corresponds to an animal sign, also called the Chinese zodiac. Ji month, each corresponding twenty-four solar terms from a certain throttle lever (gas) to the next solar terms, to pay decided to start a month during the day time, not the lunar month and the first to the end of the month. Many almanac, indicating the number one lunar month power, are approximate not congruent. Ji, each number corresponds to a fixed period of time, referred to as an hour. China ancient times a day and is divided into 12 segments, each segment for an hour, or about 2 hours now.

Xvi or fully restored segment is the han dynasty according to the time of eating before graduation for 16 hours day and night. "The white tiger," said: "the governors three meal, QingDaFu rice again." According to etiquette, at that time, common people can only use two meals a day, and governors maharaja generally for three meals a day, lunch is more grand.

Historical data there sometimes account of "days' food", is refers to 3 eat Chinese food. While the right diet, according to the ritual for four meals a day. According to four meals a day, the emperor will be divided into 16 hours a day, the 16 hours, respectively, in the midnight, crow, have, daylight, sunrise, flea, the food, in the east, Japan and China, in the west, when has mostly, mostly, food, day, evening, night man.

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