What year is Xu Yin?

Wuyin year does not refer to a certain year, but a certain year in the lunar calendar, such as 2006, 1946, 1886, which occurs once every 60 years.

There are ten heavenly stems, namely, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Man and Ghost, and twelve earthly branches, namely, Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The ancients put 60 pairs together without repetition, from Jiazi to Guihai, which was called Jiazi.

The ancients in China used these 60 pairs of branches to represent the serial numbers of years, months, days and hours, and this is the chronology of branches.

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Beginning of calendar year

The legend of the chronology of cadres and branches comes from the era of the Yellow Emperor. In fact, it sprouted in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, began with Wang Mang, and spread after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xin's newly compiled San Tong Li changed the first year of Taishu to Bingzi, and the second year of Taishi (the first 95 years) was changed from Yiyou to Bingxu. It can be seen that there is some confusion in the transition between the chronology of the Western Han Dynasty and that of Taizi.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, calendar scholars did not use the super-Chen method. Therefore, the Annals of the Prince and the Annals of Ganzhi in the second year of Taishi are the same on the surface. In the second year of Han, Yuan and Emperor (AD 85), the court ordered the nationwide implementation of "Records of Cadres". Since then, the chronology of the main branches has been fixed and continues to this day without confusion. Therefore, people in the Eastern Han Dynasty used this point to promote the corresponding relationship between the trunk and the year, thus having our current historical chronology.

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