What time is it from five to six in the evening?

As time goes by, it is also called sunset, sunset and evening: it means when the sun goes down. (Beijing time 17 to 19). So five to six in the evening is the same time.

The ancients in China divided a day into twelve hours, and each hour is equivalent to two hours today. According to legend, the ancients named each time according to the time of animals in the zodiac. (5 pm to 7 pm). During this time, chickens began to return to their nests.

This is the twelve-hour system used in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Han Dynasty is represented by the twelve earthly branches, with the hours from midnight to 1 as the child time, 1 as the ugly time and 3: 00 to 5: 00 as the Yin Shi time, which are recursive in turn.

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24-hour system

After the Song Dynasty, twelve o'clock 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 ... In turn, it happened to be 24 hours, which is consistent with the current 24 hours a day.

In ancient China, the method of "dripping water from a copper pot" was used to measure time, and one day and night were divided into twelve hours, namely, Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Noon, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai, which correspond to the twenty-four hours today. From eleven to midnight, it's ugly from one to three, Yin Shi from three to five, and so on.

One hour in ancient times is equivalent to two hours today. So when clocks and watches were first introduced into China, some people called an hour "Da Shi" and an hour in the new time "Shi". Later, with the popularity of clocks and watches, the word "big hour" disappeared, but "hour" has been used to this day.

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