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Foreign Cultures 81 The Culture of Everyday Life in China Peter Bol, Michael Szonyi, Stephen Ford

Foreign Cultures 81 The Culture of Everyday Life in China Peter Bol, Michael Szonyi, Stephen Ford. When – Part 2 Multichronicity in Daily Life. Eight Trigrams Diviner in Pujiang, 1998. 1368. Was the 1 st year of the Hongwu 洪武 (Overflowing Martiality) reign period

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Foreign Cultures 81 The Culture of Everyday Life in China Peter Bol, Michael Szonyi, Stephen Ford

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  1. Foreign Cultures 81The Culture of Everyday Life in ChinaPeter Bol, Michael Szonyi, Stephen Ford When – Part 2 Multichronicity in Daily Life

  2. Eight Trigrams Diviner in Pujiang, 1998

  3. 1368 • Was the 1st year of the Hongwu 洪武 (Overflowing Martiality) reign period of the founding emperorof the Great Ming. • The Hongwu reign period ended with the death of the emperor in 1398 • His successor took the reign period title of Jianwen 建文 (Establishing the Civil) in 1399. When he was usurped by his uncle in 1403, his reign period was erased. The new emperor named his reign period Eternal Joy 永樂。

  4. But • 1368 was also the 28th year of the Zhizheng至正(Perfect Correctness) reign period of Toghon Temur,the reigning emperor/grand khanof the Great Yuan.

  5. February 16 2012 • Is the 25th day of the 1st moon of the renchen壬辰 year; a dragon year, the 12th day of Start of Spring (立春 lìchūn) (Four days from today Rain Water(yushui雨水) begins.) • the 5th day of the third week • Today is the dingwei丁未 day • It is 10 days past the Lantern Festival (1/15) • Today the moon is in the lunar mansion “Encampment” (shi 室) in the Black Tortoise division 玄武 • Today is a Water 水day • It is 6 o’clock • Don’t get your head shaved today, but do meet with friends

  6. the Renchen 壬辰 year the dingwei丁未 day Thesexagenary cycle

  7. Why is this the year of the Dragon? Thesexagenary cycle

  8. Why are months moons?How many moons in a year? • Today is the 25th day of the 1st moon • This month is a big month, it will have 30 days – next month will have 29

  9. How to solve this problem? Lunar year = 12 moons, 29 ½ days each. Thus 6 small months of 29 days and 6 big months of 30 (354) . some years 7 big (355) or small. (353).

  10. Does the solar year matter? • yes, of course, but why? • On what should it be based? (the Gregorian Calendar cut off 10 days from Julian Calendar in 1582, it took another 200 years before all Europe adopted Jan 1 as the start of the year (rather than a religious event) Religious calendars and saint days were practical calendars into the 19th c. for most.)

  11. Today is the the 12th day of Start of Spring (立春 lìchūn) Rain Water begins 4 days from today

  12. Climactic periods (jieqi 節氣) • 24 periods of 15 days • Starts with the Beginning of Spring (2/4) • Ends with Big Cold (1/22) • Anchored by spring and autumn equinoxes (fen分), summer and winter solstices (至)

  13. [1] Qingming Festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar

  14. Today the moon is in the first lunar mansion, “Horn” (jiao角)

  15. Today is an Earth 土day

  16. Why is today an earth day? Thesexagenary cycle

  17. Heaven and Earth 28 Constellations Auspicious & Inauspicious Stars Earthly & Heavenly Branches Eclipses recorded in almanac Geomancy (Feng-shui) Sun Day Moon Month Seasons Fortune-Telling Following your fortunes Bazi Predictions differ based on calendar day Hours corresponding to 12 Earthly Branches Time Peter Cai, 2008

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