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What time is Chen Jia?

Chen Jia is between 7 am and 9 am.

Because the ancients divided a day and night into twelve hours, and named them after Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai respectively. One hour represents two hours, and so on, but from seven to nine in the morning.

12 hour clock

It was used in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Han dynasty, it was named midnight, crow, pingdan, sunrise, food time, corner, day, sundial, sunset, dusk and people's decision. It is also represented by the twelve earthly branches, with the midnight from 23: 00 to 1: 00 as the sub-hour, 1: 00 to 3: 00 as the sub-hour, and 3: 00 to 5: 00 as the Yin Shi time, which are circulated in turn.

Midnight, also known as midnight and midnight: the first hour of twelve o'clock. (23 o'clock to 0 1 point).

The ugly cock crows, also known as the pheasant: the second hour of twelve o'clock. (0 1 to 03: 00).

Yin Shiping Dan, also known as Dawn, Dawn and Tiandan, etc. The current position time is alternating day and night. (03 o'clock to 05 o'clock).

Sunrise in Shi Mao, also known as the beginning of the day, dawn and rising sun, refers to the time when the sun just appeared and Ran Ran first rose. (05: 00 to 07: 00)