Brief introduction of Chen Geng

Chen Geng was first discovered in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins, as shown in the figure.

Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Volume 14 "Geng Department" has

"Geng in the west, like everything in autumn.

Cheng Geng himself, like a man.

It's all Geng's. "

Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Volume 14 Chen Bu has

"Earthquake also. In March, the sun is pneumatic, electricity is vibrating, and the people are also farming.

Everything is born, from B to B, such as; The factory, the sound also.

Chen and Fang Xing, too.

Write words from two, two and ancient Chinese.

Everything that belongs to Chen is Chen's. "

Obviously, both of them are related to farming. Compared with glyphs, Xu Shen's interpretation is still somewhat different from the original characters.

Gengchennian

The17th year of a cycle in the traditional calendar of China is called "Chen Geng year". In the following AD years, if the number of years is divided by more than 60 and 20, or the number of years is reduced by 3, the remainder after division by 10 is 7, and the remainder after division by 12 is 5. The years from the first day of the first month of that year to New Year's Eve of the following year were all "Chen Geng years".

Lunar calendar is a dry calendar, and solar terms are used to guide agricultural production. Branches and branches are not divided into solar terms, regardless of traditional habits or official calendars (see the perpetual calendar compiled by Purple Mountain Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences for details).