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An accurate chronology of 60 years old

The exact chronology of 60 years is as follows:

1, Sixty Jia Zi is an ancient invention of China people, also known as Sixty Jia Zi. Its earliest uses are calendar year, calendar month, calendar day and calendar time. Calendar year is 60-year cycle, calendar month is 5-year cycle, calendar day is 60-day cycle, and calendar time is 5-day cycle.

2. Sixty Jiazi also refers to the 60-star god of Taoist belief. That is, sixty gods on duty every day. Use heavenly stems and earthly branches's collocation as the name to call these gods.

3. Who is the inventor of cadre and branch discipline? Although there are the following statements to verify the origin of the main branch, who invented it? When did it first appear? This is always a mystery. It is said that the inventor of heavenly stems and earthly branches was a troublemaker in the ancient Xuanyuan period four or five thousand years ago.

4. Archaeological findings show that Diyi (the 30th king of Shang Dynasty) in the late Shang Dynasty has a complete set of 60 Oracle bones carved on a piece of Oracle bones, which may be the calendar at that time. This also shows that in the Shang Dynasty, the dry calendar was already in use.

5. According to research, there was a solar eclipse in Lu Yingong in the Spring and Autumn Period from February (February 720 BC 10). This is the exact evidence of China's use of Ganzhi Chronology, and the Emperor Year in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the first year of construction.

6. heavenly stems and earthly branches Sixty Jiazi In the ancient calendar of China, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui were called "Ten Days Dry", while Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai were called "Ten Days Dry". In ancient China, people used heavenly stems and earthly branches to represent years, months, days and hours.

7. Month, year, month and day are like four pillars supporting the building of "time", so they are called four pillars. The ancient people in China formulated heavenly stems and earthly branches Theory, which should be based on observation and practice, rather than the concept of behind closed doors. For example, acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the circulation of meridians, and the selection of points is regular at different days and hours, which conforms to heavenly stems and earthly branches's law.

Scientific principle

Although the scientific principles of 1 and 60 Jiazi can't be deciphered, the theories of five movements and six qi and four pillars numerology derived from them can be spread for thousands of years, because these theories are the knowledge of exploring human mysteries, predicting, diagnosing and treating human diseases. In the field of natural science, the role of the sixties was also enormous.