What time is 8: 00 to 10?

8: 00 a.m. to 10 includes Chen Shi and Shi Si, and 8: 00 p.m. to 10 includes Qishi and Shihai.

In ancient China, a day was divided into twelve hours, and each hour was equal to two hours now. According to legend, the ancients named each time according to the time of animals in the China Zodiac.

The time in the morning refers to 7: 00 to 9: 00 in the morning, which is not called meal time. Time refers to 9: 00 am to 165438+ 0: 00 noon. According to Huainanzi Astronomical Training, as far as Hengyang is concerned, the sun is in the corner. Therefore, it used to be called a corner.

It refers to the night from 19 to 2 1, also known as dusk, sunset, evening and so on. At this time, the sun has set and it will be dark. The world is dark and everything is hazy, so it is called dusk. In the meantime, the dog began to watch the door. Shihai refers to 2 1 point to 23: 00. At this time, it is a quiet night, so it is also called human decision.

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The origin of time:

Twelve-hour system was adopted in the Western Zhou Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, every hour in the twelve hours was divided into two parts, namely, the beginning of the son, the beginning of the son, the beginning of ugliness and the beginning of ugliness ... Conversely, it happened to be 24 hours, which is consistent with the current 24 hours a day.

10 time system appeared in the pre-Qin period, with night time as the first watch, sea time as the second watch, child time as the third watch, child ugly time as the fourth watch, and Yin time as the fifth watch. Divide the night into five classes, beat drums according to each class, and each class has five points.

Birthday system is to divide day and night into balanced 100 minutes. Its production is related to the use of missing prints. In the Han Dynasty, it was changed to 120, and in the Southern Dynasty it was changed to 96 and 108. After repeated times, it was not until the introduction of European astronomy knowledge in the late Ming Dynasty that the reform of 96 engraving system was put forward and made it a formal system in the early Qing Dynasty.

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