The hour is the traditional unit of time in China. Divide a day and a night into twelve sections, each called one hour, which is now two hours. Twelve o'clock is named after the earthly branch, starting from midnight, and it is midnight at midnight, and noon at noon. ?
The ancients divided a day into twelve hours, and each hour is equal to two hours now. According to legend, each time is named after the time of animals in the zodiac.
Pronunciation: Zi (zǐ), Ugly (chǐu), Yin (yín), Mao (m ǐ o), Chen (chén), Si (south), Wu (), Wei (west), Shen (shēn) and Shen.
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At first, the ancient working people described the time mainly with reference to obvious astronomical phenomena, animal biological clocks and daily life, such as crow, pingdan, Chaoshi, Japan and China, and people's daily life. Later, they gradually used the readings of timing equipment to describe time, and later, they gradually used five elements to assign values to the readings of these timing equipment.
For example, the characters A and B match wood (4:48-9:36), C and D match fire (9:36- 14:24) and Wuji match soil (14: 24-19:/kloc). These parallel meetings have no practical significance.
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