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Is October the month of the lunar calendar the month of the sea or the month of the child?

October in the lunar calendar is the ocean month. Hai is one of the twelve branches of the earth. Haiyue is the first month of winter and is about to enter the cold season.

In the ancient calendar of China, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui were called "Ten Days of Dry", and Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You and Xu; The sea is called "Twelve Earthly Branches". The two cooperate with each other in a fixed order, forming the discipline of cadres and branches. Judging from the Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins, in ancient China, the trunk and branch were mainly used to record the days, as well as the months, years and hours.

Ganzhi calendar is the product of ancient civilization, also known as solar calendar or China solar calendar, which is an abstruse calendar. This is a calendar marked with 60 different groups of heavenly stems and earthly branches. It mainly consists of four parts: dry branch year, dry branch month, dry branch day and dry branch time. It takes beginning of spring as the beginning of the year and festivals as the beginning of the month.