{"id":19644,"date":"2025-11-11T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19644"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:52:24","slug":"how-ancient-chinese-mark-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19644","title":{"rendered":"How Ancient Chinese Mark Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u65e5\u6677\uff0c\u6c34\u9221\uff0c\u706b\u9221\uff0c\u9999\u9221<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Ancient Chinese People Told the Time\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1O5Tg9AM9X4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Han dynasty: \u5341\u4e8c<a href=\"https:\/\/zh.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E6%97%B6%E8%BE%B0\">\u65f6\u8fb0<\/a> (a day broken into every 2 hours)\uff1a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u591c\u534a (midnight) = 23:00PM - 1AM<br>\u9dc4\u9cf4 (rooster crows) = 1AM - 3AM<br>\u5e73\u65e6 (daybreak) = 3AM - 5AM<br>\u65e5\u51fa (Sunrise) = 5AM - 7AM<br>\u98df\u6642 (breakfast) = 7AM - 9AM<br>\u9685\u4e2d (approaching noon) = 9AM - 11AM<br>\u65e5\u4e2d (midday) = 11AM - 13PM<br>\u65e5\u6633 (Sun descending) = 13PM - 15PM<br>\u54fa\u6642 (dinner, yes only 2 meals a day) = 15PM - 17PM<br>\u65e5\u5165 (Sunset) = 17PM - 19PM<br>\u9ec3\u660f (Dusk) = 19PM - 21PM<br>\u4eba\u5b9a (bedtime) = 21PM - 23PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respectively, use of 12 \u5730\u652f came later in Eastern Han dynasty to replace the 12 \u6642\u8fb0:<br><strong>\u5b50<\/strong> (=11)\u3001\u4e11 (=12)\u3001<strong>\u5bc5<\/strong>\u3001\u536f\u3001<strong>\u8fb0<\/strong>\u3001\u5df3\u3001<strong>\u5348<\/strong>\u3001\u672a\u3001<strong>\u7533<\/strong>\u3001\u9149\u3001<strong>\u620c<\/strong>\u3001\u4ea5<br><strong>Zi3<\/strong>, Chou3, <strong>Yin1<\/strong>, Mao3, <strong>Chen2<\/strong>, Si4, <strong>Wu3<\/strong>, Wei4, <strong>Shen1<\/strong>, You3, <strong>Xu1<\/strong>, Hai4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which also corresponds to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u751f\u8096<\/strong>: \u9f20 (=11)\u3001\u725b\u3001\u864e\u3001\u5154\u3001\u9f99\u3001\u86c7\u3001\u9a6c\u3001\u7f8a\u3001\u7334\u3001\u9e21\u3001\u72d7\u3001\u732a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and also <a href=\"https:\/\/zhuanlan.zhihu.com\/p\/694067375\">body parts<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/picx.zhimg.com\/v2-a4897b9804c074e70b2b3c44d1c3c3e9_1440w.jpg?source=172ae18b\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then later in Tang dynasty, to make the \u6642\u8fb0 halves (= 1 hour = \u5c0f\u6642), the first half is called \u521d\uff0c second half is called \u6b63. With smaller unit (15 minutes) called \u523b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples: 00:30AM = \u5b50\u516d\u523b \uff08first \u6642\u8fb0 plus 6x 15 mins) or \u5b50\u6b63\u4e8c\u523b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u65e5\u6677\uff0c\u6c34\u9221\uff0c\u706b\u9221\uff0c\u9999\u9221 Early Han dynasty: \u5341\u4e8c\u65f6\u8fb0 (a day broken into every 2 hours)\uff1a \u591c\u534a (midnight) = 23:00PM - 1AM\u9dc4\u9cf4 (rooster crows) = 1AM - 3AM\u5e73\u65e6 (daybreak) = 3AM - 5AM\u65e5\u51fa (Sunrise) = 5AM - 7AM\u98df\u6642 (breakfast) = 7AM - 9AM\u9685\u4e2d (approaching &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19653,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19644\/revisions\/19653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}