How to express the year, month and day with dry branches?

Year: one year for each branch, after 60 branches, start from the beginning and repeat. Starting from Jiazi, it is called Jiazi or Huahua Jiazi 60 years later. It's called the chronology of cadres and branches.

Month: the first month begins in Yin, and the branches of the earth are fixed in each month, and then they are combined with the sky in turn; From the first month to the third month of the first year, February is Ding Maoyue and March is Chen Wu. From Jiaziyue to Guihaiyue, * * * sixty Jiazi, exactly five years.

Day: Starting from Jiazi Day, arranged in order, the 60th day happens to be a trunk-branch cycle.

As early as 2697 BC, when the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of China, founded the country, heavenly stems and earthly branches made a great fuss about exploring the qi of heaven and earth and the five elements (water, fire and earth in Jin Mu), and started the ten-day work of A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, and the work of Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu and Gui.

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The monthly expenditure can be calculated according to the annual expenditure, but the date cannot be calculated, so you need to consult the relevant perpetual calendar. According to the annual trunk and branch, there is a formula: C is the first in the first year of Jiaxu, and E is the first in the second year of Geng. Bing Xin must find Geng, and Ding Ren's position is popular. Where to find it, Jia Yin is the true way.

The annals of cadres and branches are the concentrated expression of China culture and the crystallization of the wisdom of sages. It is not out of date and still exists in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter.

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