The perpetual calendar is one of the oldest solar calendars in ancient Chinese legends. In honor of the 10,000th anniversary of the compiler of the calendar.
Merit, the ancients named this calendar "perpetual calendar". The perpetual calendar that people use today is actually an almanac that records the dates of a specific solar or lunar calendar within a certain time frame (say 100 years or more).
If you want to trace the origin of the perpetual calendar, the story has to start from the Shang Dynasty in ancient times. Legend has it that the famous woodcutter called Wan Nian one day, he went up the mountain to cut wood, and when he was finished, he sat down under the tree to rest.
He looked at the shadows of the trees, and his thoughts were still about how to set the seasons. Before he knew it, more than half an hour had passed, and he noticed that the shadows of the trees on the ground had quietly moved their bearings. Ten thousand years of inspiration, I thought, why not use the length of the sun shadow to calculate time? After returning home, Wan Nian designed a "sundial". However, on a rainy day, the sundial loses its effectiveness. This made Wan Nian feel very distressed.
One day, Wan Nian was drinking water by the spring, and saw the water on the cliff dripping down rhythmically, and the regular dripping sound of "tick-tock" inspired him again. After returning home, Wan Nian began to do it, he made a five-layer leaky pot, and used the leakage method to time it. In this way, no matter whether the weather is cloudy or sunny, you can accurately grasp the time. With the tools of timekeeping, Wannian observes the changes of the time and seasons more carefully. After a long period of induction, he found that every 360 days, the length of the day would be repeated. As long as you understand the laws of the sun and moon, you don't have to worry about the inaccurate season.
One day, Wan Nian brought a self-made sundial and a water leak pot to meet the Son of Heaven Zu Yi, explaining that the festival was not allowed to have nothing to do with the gods. Zu Yi felt that Wannian was very reasonable, so he left Wannian behind, built a sundial platform and a leaky pot pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, and sent twelve boys for Wannian to send. Since then, Mannian has been able to concentrate on studying the seasons. After a while, Zu Yi sent Ah Heng to learn about the situation of the 10,000-year calendar. Wan Nian took out the preliminary results of his own calculations and said: "The sunrise and sunset are three hundred and six, and the cycle starts from the beginning." When the grass and trees flourish and wither, there are twelve rounds in a year. After hearing this, Ah Heng was very uneasy. He was worried that the accurate calendar made in ten thousand years and reused by the Son of Heaven would directly threaten his position. So Ah Heng bribed an assassin with a lot of money and prepared to assassinate for 10,000 years. Helpless, he devoted himself to studying the seasons for ten thousand years, and almost never left the Sun Moon Pavilion where he lived. The Assassin took advantage of the dead of night to pick up his bow and arrow and shoot him for 10,000 years.
I only heard a "whoosh" sound, and an arrow hit Wan Nian's arm, and Wan Nian fell down in response. The boys shouted for the Assassin, and the guards caught the Assassin in time and sent him away. Zu Yi found out that it was Ah Heng's trick, so he ordered Ah Heng to be taken into custody and personally come to the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit Wan Nian. Wan Nian reported his latest research results to Zu Yi: "Now that Shenxing has caught up with the silkworm hundred stars, the stars have been restored, the time and night have been made, the old year is over, and the time is spring, I hope the Son of Heaven will set a festival name!" Zu Yi said: "Spring is the first of the year, let's go to the ** festival." At that time, Zu Yi saw that Wan Nian was tired day and night and suffered arrow wounds in order to make a calendar, and he couldn't bear it, so he asked other people to recuperate in the palace, and Wan Nian replied: "Thank you for the love of the Son of Heaven, but the current solar calendar is still a grass calendar, which is not accurate enough, and you have to leap into it at the end of the year." Otherwise, over time, it will cause seasonal abnormalities. In order to live up to expectations, I had to stay and continue to set the solar calendar. After that, after dozens of cold and summer, the solar calendar that had been carefully formulated for 10,000 years was finally completed. When he presented the solar calendar to Zu Yi, he was already a gray-haired old man. Zu Yi was deeply moved, so he named the solar calendar "Perpetual Calendar" and named Wannian as "Sun, Moon and Birthday Star", which is the origin of the name "Perpetual Calendar".
The perpetual calendar is a kind of almanac reference book that corresponds to the Gregorian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the Ganzhi calendar. Check the use of the perpetual calendar, mainly using the dry branch time in the calendar. The Ganzhi period is the oldest calendar created in China. It is based on celestial phenomena, conforms to phenological characteristics, and reflects the prosperity and decline of the five elements. Among many disciplines, there is an irreplaceable role for other calendars. In the Ganzhi period, it has special practical value in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, qigong, Zhou Yi mathematics, farming, calendar, etc. Whenever it is necessary to use the Ganzhi period, and the user does not have a perpetual calendar in his hand, he is often helpless.
The so-called "stem branch", that is, the abbreviation of "heavenly stem" and "earth branch", is a symbol used by ancient people to calculate the year, month, day, hour and direction. There are ten heavenly stems, which are A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and DEC. There are 12 earthly branches, which are Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai. The stem branch is also divided into yin and yang, A, C, E, G, and non are yang stems; B, D, Hex, Xin, and Dec are shade dry. Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu are yang branches; Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai are the yin branches.
A heavenly stem and an earthly branch are matched and arranged, the heavenly stem is in the front, the earthly branch is in the back, the heavenly stem is from the first, the earthly branch is from the son, the yang stem is matched with the yang branch, and the yin stem is matched with the yin branch, a total of sixty combinations. The ancients used these 60 combinations to cycle the year, month, day, and time to form the Ganzhi Era method. Chronology: The year of the Ganzhi calendar is marked by the beginning of spring of the 24 solar terms, and is marked with 60 sets of different sexagenary branches. From Jiazi to Guihai, the cycle is endless. This group of stems of the year can be called the year column. The following is the order of the 60 Jiazi years: 01Jiazi 02B Chou 03Bingyin 04Ding Mao 05Wuchen 0607庚午 08Xinwei 09Nonshen 1011Jiaxu 12Otohai 13propylene 14Ding Chou 15Wu Yin 1617Gengchen 18Xin Si 19Renwu 2021Jiashen 22Ethyl 23propylene 24Ding Hai 25Wuzi 2627Geng Yin 28Xin Mao 29Renchen 30癸巳31Jiawu 32B Wei 33C-Shen 34Ding You 35Pentecostal 36Jihai 37Gengzi 38Xin Chou 39Ren Yin 40癸卯 41Jiachen 42Otomi 43Bingwu 44Ding Wei 45Wushen 46Hexagram 47庚戌 48Xinhai 49Renzi 5051Jiayin 52B Mao 53Bingchen 54Ding Si 55Wu Wu 56Ji Wei 57Gengshen 58Xinyou 59壬戌 60癸海. Each pair of cadres represents a year, and is in place year by year, from Jiazi to Guihai for a total of 60 years as a week, and then from Jiazi, and the cycle repeats. Ji Yue: The dry branch of the month, using each earthly branch corresponding to 24 solar terms, with 24 solar terms to divide 12 months, each month contains two solar terms, no leap month. From one solar term to the next, the first month is determined by the transition time. The length of the months in the Gregorian calendar is artificially prescribed and has nothing to do with celestial phenomena; The year, month and day of the Ganzhi calendar are determined by the celestial phenomena, and there is no need to adjust it artificially, and it is a calendar that is completely in line with the laws of the celestial phenomena. To this day, the Ganzhi calendar is still popular in books such as the perpetual calendar, and is used in elephant numbers, feng shui, and numerology. Chronicle: Chronicle is the earliest usage of the Ganzhi, a day and night is a day, with 60 combinations to the day in turn, such as today is the Jiazi day, tomorrow is the Yichou day, 60 days a cycle, the new day starts from the Zhengzi time, the Ganzhi Ji day that can be checked, from the Spring and Autumn Lu Yin Gong three years (720 BC), has been more than 2700 years ago, this is by far the world's earliest chronological method. Chronology: There are 12 hours in a day, and there are 60 hours in five days, which are represented by 60 combinations, which are called "five days and one wait". The cycle repeats itself and repeats itself. And an hour is divided into two, the sub-hour from 0 o'clock to 1 o'clock is the morning time, from 23 o'clock to 24 o'clock is the evening time, and the evening time is also called midnight or night. Everyone must memorize the order of the heavenly stem and the earthly branch. This article describes a way to just memorize the fourteen-character mantra.
The time of year can be quickly calculated. This method of quick mental arithmetic perpetual calendar, called"Silver plates"，"Silver plates"It is a 10,000-year calendar speed algorithm created by folk warlocks, with a long history, and it used to be taught orally between masters and apprentices"Silver plates"The combination is brought out and made public to the world to further reveal the secret.
"Silver plates"It is a method of estimating the time of the Ganzhi era based on the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is divided into big months and small months, with 30 days for big months and 29 days for small months. If the small moon factor is not considered, the 60 days of the lunar calendar in two months are consistent with the number of 60 groups of stems and branches of a Jiazi, that is, a Jiazi can coincide every two months. According to such a law, knowing the daily stem branch on the first day of the first month of a certain year is equivalent to knowing the daily stem branch on the first day of March, the first day of May, the first day of July, the first day of September, and the first day of November, and the daily stem branch of the first day of the first month of these months should be the same (if there is a leap month, the monthly equinox changes slightly) because there are small months in the lunar calendar, as long as you know how many small months there are in a certain year, which months are they, how many small months the date has been pushed, and the dry branch date is postponed for a few days, so that the mental arithmetic stem branch day becomes very simple. To mentally calculate the perpetual calendar, you must understand the following four points:. (1) The age of the year; (2) The daily stem branch on the first day of the first lunar month; (3) the day and time of the beginning of spring; (4) How many months of the year, which months are they? "Silver plates"It only took 14 words to successfully solve the above four problems. "Silver plates"The creators, in order to keep secrets, adopted when compiling the mantra"Cryptography", that is, for the same earthly branch, often use multiple titles. In doing so, one is to provide more rhyme and make the song rhyme. And the main thing is taken for this mental algorithm"Encryption"。There are many names for the same earthly branch, and they are used differently, even if outsiders hear them, they can't understand it.
sub-up; Zi, Rat, Fu, Yanchou-Chou, Niu, Tian, Xia, Guiyin-Yan, Mountain, Tiger, Raccoon, Leopard, Mao, Song, Lin, Rabbit, Cloth, Raccoon Dog-Dragon; Gang, Shark, Zheng, Yisi-Nu, Tang, Chu, Snake, Eel, Yinwu-Wu, Zhou, Roe Deer, Deer, Mawei-Liu, Fowl, Sheep, Ying, Anshen-Jin, Shen, Monkey, Ape, Cage You-Zhao, You, Knife, Zhi, Jixu-Lu, Dog, Dog, Jackal, Wolf Hai-Hai, Pig, Descending, Yu, Xiang. "Silver plates"Not only is the title of the ground branch encrypted, but in order to facilitate memory and control the number of words in the song, some abbreviations of relevant months are also set. When in the same year, March, July, and November are all small months, it can be called"Water Bureau"。Shen Zichen of the Water Bureau, refers to the month of Chen, Shen Yue, and Ziyue. When the first month, May, and September are all small months in the same year, it can be abbreviated"Fire Bureau"。When February, June, and October are all small months in a year, it can also be abbreviated"Wood Bureau"Wood Bureau Hai Mao Wei also. It can also be called when April, August, and December are all small months in the year"Gold Bureau"；The gold bureau is ugly. In the abbreviation, the names Meng, Zhong, and Ji are sometimes used in the season. If the first month, April, July, and October of the year are all small months, it can be called"Meng Yue"。It can be called when February, May, August, and November are all small months in the year"Midmoon"。In a year, March, June, September, and wax are all small months, which can be called"Quarter Month"。"Silver plates"It is also stipulated that when February, April and June are small months in a year, they can be called"Magnolia"。August, October, and wax months can be called when they are small months"Golden Cicada"。In addition, when encountering leap months, they are represented by before, after, and double. For example, the last five refers to the leap month, the first three refers to the first three months, and the double seven refers to the first and last two Julys.
"Silver plate in"The ten heavenly stems are also represented by five colors:A B - Qing Bing Ding - Red Pentosis - Huang Gengxin - Bai Non - Black. Understand the above regulations"Silver plates"It's - it can be deciphered. Cited in 1948"Silver plates"The song recipe is as follows: Wuzi (1) Qingniu (2) Twenty-six (3) Pro (4) Magnolia (5) Jin (6) Dog (7) Zi (8) Shangxun.
Explanation: (1) Wuzi: 1948 years old, (2) Qingniu;Green is wood, cattle are ugly, and fingers are ugly. The first day of the first month of the year is the first day of the year. (3) Twenty-six;That is, the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month. Refers to the beginning of spring as the twenty-sixth month of the lunar month. Generally, the beginning of spring will not be earlier than the fifteenth day of the lunar month at the earliest, and the evening will not be later than the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Therefore, the period after the fifteenth refers to the wax month, and the dates before the fifteenth refer to the first month. The fifteenth day is more special, in order to facilitate the distinction, the fifteenth day of the lunar month is called the fifteenth, and the fifteenth day of the first month is called the fifteenth. (4) Pro: Mao. Refers to the beginning of spring. (5) Magnolia: February, April, and June are small months. (6) Jin: refers to the month of Shen, and July is a small month. (7) Dog: refers to the month of Xu, and September is the small month. (8) Zi: refers to November as a small month. The first sentence of the song explains that the first day of the first month of the first month of the Wuzi year is the second day, and the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month is the beginning of spring The second sentence explains that there are six small months, respectively.
February, April, June, July, September, November.
The trial heart algorithm calculates that the cadres on the first day of May 1948 know through the song: the first day of the first month is Yi Chou, if the small moon factor is not considered for the time being, the first day of March and the first day of May are also B Chou. Because the first day of May has experienced two small months of February and April, it has been pushed forward for two days, and the third day of May is B. In addition to the Ganzhi date, there are also Ganzhi years, Ganzhi months, and Ganzhi years do not need to be calculated. During the Ganzhi period, the regularity is very strong, and it is used"Five rats escaped"It's easy to calculate. However, it is slightly more complicated in the month of Zhiji. The following is an introduction to the calculation method of the Ganzhi month. The Ganzhi month refers to the solar term month. It starts with the intersection time. In fact, it is a method of calculating the time of the 12 solar terms from the beginning of spring, which is determined according to the time when the sun shines directly on a certain latitude of the earth, which belongs to the solar calendar. The lunar month is based on the lunar image, and the lunar synod determines the month, which belongs to the category of the lunar calendar, and it is necessary to do it from the beginning of the Spring Festival, calculate the lunar time of other solar terms, and consider the small moon factor in addition to the remaining factors, but also on the basis of the lunar month, add a correction value, so that it conforms to the solar calendar.
The song recipe is: the beginning of spring from the root, the sting regression of the third hour, to know the Qingming March Festival, do not add or subtract to make the dragon altar. Add eight hours is the beginning of summer, two days back a mango planting day, three days and four hours for a small summer, five days of autumn to dry food and clothing. At ten o'clock on the fifth day, the white dew was handed over, the cold open air was cold at five o'clock on the sixth day, the winter festival was established at seven o'clock on the sixth day, and the heavy snow was even at four o'clock on the sixth day. At nine o'clock on the fifth day, Xiaohan will not be half a day. The above is calculated from the beginning of the Spring Festival to calculate different solar terms, and different time correction values need to be added.
Understand that from the beginning of spring, the correction value of the twelve solar terms is calculated, and then according to it"Silver plate in"Song, you can calculate the time of the festival of any solar term in the year, and know the time of the festival, you can determine the beginning of the month of the dry branch. Try to take 1957 as an example, calculate the time of the beginning of winter, and determine the month of the dry branch.
Silver plates"The song says:"Ding Youzhu Mao Chu five snakes, the wooden bureau back knife four Shen ugly on the check"。"Silver plates"The meaning expressed is: in 1957, the first day of the first month of the first month of the day of the day of the stem branch is the first month, the fifth day of the first month of the beginning of spring. October, February, June, leap August, April, July, and wax are small months, and leap August of the year.
The Lidong Festival is the October Festival, because of the leap August of the year, so the Lidong Festival is in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the fifth day of the first month of the year, and the fifth day of the first month (that is, the fifth day of the ninth month) is set up nine months later. Before the beginning of winter, there are five small months (29th of the small month, about 30 days of the Ganzhi month), and the first five days are made up, plus the corrected value of six days and seven hours, which is the beginning of winter time.
The date of the beginning of winter is: the 5th day of the first month of September + (5th) + 6th day and 7 hours) = the 17th day of September.
According to"Five Tigers"It is stipulated that the month of Ganzhi is the month of Xinhai. Taking 1938 as an example, the time of the Mangzhong Festival was calculated to determine the month of the Ganzhi Period. "Silver plate in"The song says:"Wu Yin is the first five of the year, and the first seven of the dragon and sheep are in"。
Silver plates"The meaning expressed is: 1938 years old, the second Wuyin, the first day of the first month of the first month of the dry branch for the Guihai, the first month of the year on the fifth day of the spring. April, August, March, June, the first July, and November of the year are small months, and they are the leap months of the year. The Mango Festival is the May Festival.
The miscanthus has experienced two small months in March and April, and the correction value is two days and one hour. The fifth day of the first month is the beginning of spring, and the fifth day of the fifth month of May is the mango seed festival. The time of the Mangzhong Festival is: the fifth day of the fifth month of May + (two days) + (two days - 1 hour) The ninth hour of the first month of May. According to"Five Tigers"Provisions: The dry branch month is the month of Wuwu.
Silver plates"It is a mental arithmetic perpetual calendar created by our ancestors in social practice. As long as you master the 60 jiazi and memorize the 14 characters by heart, you can calculate the calendar of the year. Memorizing hundreds of words (dozens of songs) can calculate the calendar for decades It can be said that learning this method means having an almanac in mind, which is of great practical value.
Academic exchanges are now strongly advocated', do not engage in the view of the portal, it can be completely removed"Silver plates"The encryption practice is re-compiled to make it more concise and easy to remember, so that more people can master the mental arithmetic perpetual calendar, so that this secret art hidden in the folk can serve the society.
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