Sexagenary cycle
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title:
Sexagenary cycle
text:
The sexagenary cycle, also known as the ganzhi or stems-and-branches 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 oracle bones of the late second millennium BC Shang dynasty. Its use to record years began around the middle of the 3rd century BC. The
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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:
2024-09-12T04:29:07Z
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