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Calligraphy work with inscription in the year of dao

Calligraphy drop divided into brush calligraphy and hard pen calligraphy. In the case of brush calligraphy, the inscription is usually in the traditional format. There can be upper and lower paragraphs. Commonly, only the next paragraph, the format is: time (generally do not use the calendar) + (place) + author + (respect) book. For example: "decimao spring month in the ancient wind hall so-and-so respect book".

In traditional calligraphy, the date of the year with the dry branch, the month according to the lunar calendar, write elegant name, generally not specific to a day. If it is a case of hard-copy calligraphy, horizontal rows of writing, can be in accordance with the modern format: 2023 year so-and-so month so-and-so book. If it is vertical row, should also be in accordance with the traditional format.

Decimal is one of the dry branches, the 40th in order. The first one is nonnyin, and the second one is jiachen. On the yin and yang five elements, the heavenly stem of the deca is the yin of water, the earthly branch of the dao is the yin of wood, it is water born of wood phase.

Decimal Year

The 40th year of a cycle in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar is called "Decimal Year". The following calendar years, the number of years divided by 60 and 43, or the number of years minus 3, divided by 10 and 0, divided by 12 and 4, from the first day of the first month of the year to the end of the next New Year's Eve in the years of the year for the "deci dao year". Calculations can be made to determine that the year of the rabbit is definitely the year of the rabbit. Like 1963 was the year of the rabbit.

The lunar calendar is a stem and branch calendar, and the seasons are used to guide agricultural production. The seasons are not divided into seasons, either by traditional customs or by official calendars.