What are primordial qi, middle qi and residual qi?

This kind of qi, which has the same properties as the five elements of the soil branch, is the most powerful.

The natural gas supported by the earth has the least loss, and the neutral gas has a moderate intensity.

Residual gas and ground support have the greatest loss to local gas, and its strength is the weakest.

Among the twelve earthly branches, each branch has one, two or three heavenly stems, which are divided into primordial qi, middle qi and residual qi according to their strength.

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The origin of heavenly stems and earthly branches

According to available data, it first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty more than 3000 years ago. Mainly used as calendar date, it is very mature, and many Shang emperors also use a certain day in their names, such as Baoding, Wuding and Zujia.

The year after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911 (19 12), the then government of the Republic of China adopted the Gregorian calendar as its national calendar. In chronology, the chronology of the AD is parallel to that of the Republic of China. That is, the western Gregorian calendar, starting from the year when Jesus was born. This calendar is no more advanced than the lunar calendar used by our ancestors.

What ordinary people call the lunar calendar is actually the yin-yang calendar that the Chinese nation has been using. Ganzhi Jiri and Twenty-four solar terms are two great inventions and unique creations in the history of China.

Experts and scholars in the dating history project of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China, using the astronomical phenomena recorded in historical books and the unearthed genealogy of bronze inscriptions, accurately concluded that the specific date of the attack of King Wu over 3000 years ago was 65438 BC+65438 BC+0.20 BC, which was amazing.

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