Sexagenary cycle
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sexagenary-cycle-167-13660714
title:
Sexagenary cycle
text:
The sexagenary cycle, also known as the stems-and-branches or ganzhi, is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere and Southeast Asia. It appears as a means of recording days in the first Chinese written texts, the Shang oracle bones of the late second millennium BC. Its use to record years began around the middle of the 3rd century BC. The cycle a
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Historical method for reckoning time in China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle
date created:
2004-02-20T08:38:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T12:25:19Z
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