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Does anyone know of a correlation between years & trigrams? If so, how is this correlation?
Thanks in advance for your anwer(s)
Rob
first,you need to know ten gans and twelve zhis。
gan: 甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸
I will abbreviate to a single decimal number(1234567890).
zhi:子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥 meaning jan,feb,mar,apr,etc or divide 1 day into 12 zhis: 子23-1, 丑1-3,寅3-5...
To express the date(hour,day,month,year or bigger), you should combine a gan and a zhi:
jan1, feb2, mar3, apr4, may5, jun6, jul7, aug8, sep9, oct0, nov1, dec2,
甲子, 乙丑, 丙寅, 丁卯, 戊辰, 己巳, 庚午, 辛未, 壬申, 癸酉, 甲戌, 乙亥,
jan3, feb4, mar5, apr6, may7, jun8, jul9, aug0, sep1, oct2, nov3, dec4,
丙子, 丁丑, 戊寅, 己卯, 庚辰, 辛巳, 壬午, 癸未, 甲申, 乙酉, 丙戌, 丁亥,
jan5, feb6, mar7...
戊子, 己丑, 庚寅……
There are 60 combinations in all, and then not exist feb1(甲丑), jan2(乙子) and so on. If Jan is jan1 this year then it is jan3 next year and jan5 after next.
甲丙戊庚壬(13579) and 子寅辰午申戌(jan mar may jul sep nov)are yang ganzhis. A day with yang ganzhi is named as hard-day.
乙丁己辛癸(24680) and 丑卯巳未酉亥(feb apr jun aug oct dec) are ying ganzhi. A day with ying ganzhi is named as soft-day.
the gregorian is a solar calender, while signs of the zodiac changing in the fixed date range.This is very inaccurate. : )
The branches change by the Solar Terms in the Solar Calender, while they change by the new Moon for the Lunar.
If you just take the gregorian month number and apply it to the branch you will get some very interesting combinations that have very little to do with chinese metaphysics in good portion of the time.
although the 1st day of gregorian month isn't the 1st day of Chinese Branch Month, but the day is contained in corresponding branch month.This is very inaccurate. : )
The branches change by the Solar Terms in the Solar Calender, while they change by the new Moon for the Lunar.
If you just take the gregorian month number and apply it to the branch you will get some very interesting combinations that have very little to do with chinese metaphysics in good portion of the time.
It is, but while the Solar Calendar in China is fixed to the Sun, the Gregorian calendar adds leap days to compensate for it.the gregorian is a solar calender, while signs of the zodiac changing in the fixed date range.
although the 1st day of gregorian month isn't the 1st day of Chinese Branch Month, but the day is contained in corresponding branch month.
Chinese Branch Calendar try to construct a flawless chronology with 12x30. So, there's not much difference between recording days and years.
12DoubleHour × 30day × 12month × 30year × 12世 × 30运 × 12会 × 30元
The focus is not what you said, but the method of using the gan-zi in a unified wayChinese months aren't always 30 days, though.
That shouldn't be difficult to see, as a year is definitly more then 30x12 = 360 days, and will usually take around 365 days, and 365 / 12 = 30,4 meaning for every 3 month that are long around 30 days there will be one around 31 days.
Leap years however would add one more day in Gregorian, making the value not a constant when we relate the 2 calendars together.
Adding Milankovitch cycles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles and now we know the year isn't a constant value it will expand and contract with the movement of the Earth through centuries..
That suggests 2 outcomes.
There aren't fixed amount of days in each Chinese year, or month, meaning you can't calculate day stem/branch without calculating how the Sun is moving, if you want high enough accuracy.
Lunar Calendar is even more messy, as the months there can be 13 in years with leap month, suggesting again that the formula will need to be much more complex that that.
The focus is not what you said, but the method of using the gan-zi in a unified way
I'm not sure I understand. How are you gonna use them without converting the gregorian date to stem/branch?
if you want to use chinese branch then you only need to download a chinese calendar application or any other chinese divination application. Actually, build a Hexagrams not need any branch. For example
2020/05/30 12:00
2020+2055+12=2067055 2055/8=256…7(Gen)
2055+12=2067 2067/8=258…3(Li)
2067/6=344…3(changed line)
->
This is a date method for building hexagram by Plum Divination.梅花易数 You will find that it is actually random.
if you want to use chinese branch then you only need to download a chinese calendar application or any other chinese divination application.
actually, I have invented some method to extract the date in a hexagram, or convert 6ren(六壬) and 6line(六爻) each other. So I can analyze a hexagram use a virtual time.Yes, but that is the difference between the philosophical approach and the divination, in my view.
The divination(as has already been said so many times - more connected to daoism vs the philosophical commentaries more connected to confucianism) is always very related to the Calendars. And the changes in the reading come from changes in the calendar.
The philosophical approach even when used for divination is always cut off from time unless a time component is incorporated in the commentaries, it will provide an answer that will be equally valid(or not valid) for any element, in that way reading will be not connected to the elements or other ways to measure time, usually while they may be connected to specific premade formula(often texts).
So that becomes important. While I'm not going into what may be "better", with the idea there are practitioners that can be happy with both, a question for the connection between hexagram and the year, suggest someone is aiming for a connection with some form of calendar, as cyclical measure of time connected to the elements, in the context of the Five Arts at least.
actually, I have invented some method to extract the date in a hexagram, or convert 6ren(六壬) and 6line(六爻) each other.
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