How did the ancients represent time, and how did the ancients represent time?

At present, the day and night are 24 hours, and in ancient times it was 12 hours. When Western mechanical clocks were introduced to China, people called the Chinese and Western time points "big time" and "hour" respectively. With the popularization of clocks and watches, people forgot about the "big hour", and the "hour" is still used today.

In ancient times, the time (big time) was not counted by one, two, three, four, but with the son of the ugly Yin Mao as the mark, and with the rat, cow, tiger and rabbit and other animals as the substitute, thought it was easy to remember. The specific division is as follows: the child (rat) time is eleven to one o'clock, with twelve o'clock as the positive point; When ugly (cow) is one to three o'clock, with two points as the positive point; Yin (tiger) time is three o'clock to five o'clock, with four o'clock as the punctual point; Mao (rabbit) time is five to seven o'clock, with six o'clock as the punctual point; The time of Chen (dragon) is from seven to nine o'clock, with eight o'clock as the punctual point; The time of the snake is from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, with ten o'clock as the punctual point; At noon (horse) is from eleven o'clock to one o'clock, with twelve o'clock as the punctual point; When it is not (sheep), it is one point to three points, and two points are the positive points; Shen (monkey) time is from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock, with 4 o'clock as the punctual point; It is from five o'clock to seven o'clock when it is unitary (chicken), with six o'clock as the punctual point; 戌 (dog) time is from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, with 8 o'clock as the punctual point; The time of the pig is from nine to eleven o'clock, with ten o'clock as the punctual point.

The ancients said that the time is different from the night, the day said "bell", and the night said "more" or "drum". There is also the saying of "morning bell and dusk drum", in ancient times, the town set up more bell and drum towers, and hit the bell to tell the time in the morning (Chenshi, seven o'clock today), so it is said "what time is the clock" during the day; The dusk (unitary time, nineteen o'clock today) drum time, so the night is said to be a few drum days. At night, it is useful to say that the time is "more", which is due to the night watchman, who strikes the bongs while patrolling, and tells the time with points.

The whole night is divided into five watches, and the third is the sub-hour, so there is also the saying of "three watches in the middle of the night".

The unit of measurement below the hour is the "quarter", and an hour is divided into eight quarters, each of which is equal to fifteen minutes of the present hour. The old ** has the saying of "three quarters of noon", which means that at three quarters of noon (five minutes to noon) when the knife is opened, at this time the yang energy is the most vigorous, and the yin energy dissipates immediately.

The following is engraved as "character", and the Cantonese-speaking areas of Guangxi in Guangdong and Guangxi are still used today, such as "3:10 in the afternoon", which means "15:50". According to the analysis of linguists, there are a lot of "ancient Chinese" retained in the Cantonese language, and the reason for this is that the ancient Central Plains Han ** fell to Lingnan and was separated from the Central Plains people for a long time, and its language did not "keep pace with the times" with the people who stayed in the Central Plains. The division below the "word" is unknown, according to the "Sui Shu Law Chronicles", the second is the ancient unit of time, and the second below is "suddenly"; How to convert, the book does not make it clear, only says:

Seconds' as thin as mang;'Suddenly' like the thinnest spider silk".

As for the six o'clock and three o'clock in the middle of the night, what you called it in the middle of the night, it counts as the homework I left for you, and when the question is closed, it will be in the reply, and I will check the homework.

The child (rat) time is eleven to one o'clock, with twelve o'clock as the positive point; When ugly (cow) is one to three o'clock, with two points as the positive point; Yin (tiger) time is three o'clock to five o'clock, with four o'clock as the punctual point; Mao (rabbit) time is five to seven o'clock, with six o'clock as the punctual point; The time of Chen (dragon) is from seven to nine o'clock, with eight o'clock as the punctual point; The time of the snake is from nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, with ten o'clock as the punctual point; At noon (horse) is from eleven o'clock to one o'clock, with twelve o'clock as the punctual point; When it is not (sheep), it is one point to three points, and two points are the positive points; Shen (monkey) time is from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock, with 4 o'clock as the punctual point; It is from five o'clock to seven o'clock when it is unitary (chicken), with six o'clock as the punctual point; 戌 (dog) time is from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, with 8 o'clock as the punctual point; The time of the pig is from nine to eleven o'clock, with ten o'clock as the punctual point.

1. Hours, the ancients divided the day into twelve hours, each hour is equivalent to the present two hours. Legend has it that the hours are named according to the time of the animals in the zodiac;

2. The ancient working people originally gave a representative word to the weather of the day. For example, in the morning, when the sun comes out, the plant starts to grow, so this hour is nicknamed "wood". At noon, the sun is at its strongest, and the air and the earth are scorching, so the hours are nicknamed "fire, gold" and "fire and earth".

5-7 p.m. is the driest and the fruit is most sugary, and this is the time when it is nicknamed "gold". At 12 o'clock in the evening, the environment is calm, and this hour is nicknamed "water". The specific distribution and comparison table with modern time are as follows:

Ancient units of time:

1. Year, a year is set as four seasons, three months as a season, is spring, summer, autumn, winter, and a year is twelve months.

2. The hour is December every year, and the month is 30 days, counting 360 days; The New Year lasts for five days, a total of 365 days, and each day is set up with 12 earthly branches, each of which is equivalent to two hours now.

3. A quarter of an hour, there are twelve hours in a day, and the unit of measurement below the hour is "quarter", and an hour is divided into eight quarters, and each quarter is equal to fifteen minutes of the present time.

4. A pillar of incense, the time is equivalent to the current five minutes, 5, a cup of tea, the time is about 10 minutes now.

6. Flick your fingers, and each flick of your fingers has ten moments.

7. Instant, instantaneous, that's a second now.

Encyclopedia - snap of a finger.

Encyclopedia - Hours.

Encyclopedia – instantly.

Encyclopedia - a stick of incense.

Encyclopedia — a quarter of an hour.

Encyclopedia — one year.

Encyclopedia – a cup of tea.

The ancients divided the surface buried rock of the time bend and the dreary as shown in the figure below

In ancient times, there were twelve earthly branches to represent time: [sub-hour] midnight, also known as midnight, midnight: the first hour of the twelve hours.

23:00-01:00 Beijing time). Ugly time] rooster crow, also known as wild chicken: the second hour of the twelve.

01:00-03:00 Beijing time). Yinshi] Pingdan, also known as dawn, morning, day, etc.: Shi is the time of the alternation of night and day.

03:00 to 05:00 Beijing time). Sunrise, also known as the beginning of the sun, dawn, rising sun, etc.: refers to the time when the sun has just appeared and is rising violently.

05:00 to 07:00 Beijing time). Chenshi] food time, also known as morning food, etc.: the time of the ancients "morning food" is also the time to eat breakfast, (Beijing time 07 to 09 o'clock).

巳时] Yuzhong, also known as Riyu, etc.: When it is close to noon, it is called Yuzhong. (09 a.m. to 11 a.m. Beijing time).

Noon] midday, also known as sunday, noon, etc.: (11 a.m. to 13 p.m. Beijing time). Not time] Riyu, also known as the sun, the sun, etc.:

The sun is set in the west. (1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Beijing time). Shen Shi] feeding time, also known as day shop, evening food, etc.:

15 to 17 o'clock Beijing time). Unitary time] sunset, also known as sunset, sunset, evening: It means when the sun sets.

17 to 19 o'clock Beijing time). Dusk, also known as sunset, sunset, sunset, etc.: At this time, the sun has set, and the sky will be dark before it gets dark.

The sky and the earth are dim, and everything is hazy, so it is called dusk. Pure Pai (7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Beijing time). Hai Shi] people are fixed, also known as fixed dusk, etc.:

By this time, the night was already dark, and people had stopped their activities and were resting and sleeping. People are quiet, that is, people are quiet. (9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Beijing time).