Incredible! I’ve watched many costume dramas and often wondered how time was kept in ancient China. In one drama, the eunuch announced the time as being 11:00 am (English translation.) I’m going to listen more closely to the actual Chinese word used to announce/tell the time. Then I’m coming right back to this awesome video for the actual translation. Thanks so very much for sharing this info with us. God bless you!! 🇺🇸❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸
your content is amazing. I'm Chinese and i don't know much about Chinese culture especially Han Chinese culture. It just makes me love Chinese culture. I hope you make content about Men's Hanfu too. Big thanks to you :)
Thank you for the efforts in making the videos, I am Chinese living in California, I never got to learn about Chinese Tradition, I truly appreciate your video
First time seeing your video. You speak perfect Chinese and English, the content is good, and I learned something about Chinese culture that I didn't know before. Subscribed. Thank you.
My parents and I are watching The Longest Day in Chang'an and wanted to know more about the timekeeping! So glad to find this video, it was exactly what I was looking for 💜 Thank you for sharing!
This is my first time on your channel and I absolutely fell in love! Thank you for such detailed information. I really appreciate it. Also -- you look really pretty :)
thank you for this video!!! it was very informative and helpful! i watch a lot of drama in which they tell the time in 时辰 and i never got how long that is, but you explained very well!
Very interesting and well made video. Thank you! I came to understand more about ancient chinese timekeeping and now have found another channel to subscribe to! I was brought here by something I'm trying to work out: I listened to the "The secret of the Golden flower, by Wang Chongyang" on youtube and he talks about even meditating for 1/4 hour being very beneficial. It's hard to know whether the author meant 1/4 Shi Chen or the translators understood the timekeeping difference and adjusted accordingly. I assumed ther would have been a different way of keeping time and I am happy to see this great video
You forgot to mention Guo ShouJing, who improved the accuracy of the water clock, and who measured the length of Earth year in 1280 that is off by only 26 seconds compared with today measurements, and it was the most accurate measurement in the whole World at that time. His calendar was used for over 300 years.
In wuxia/xianxia novels I also read a lot about a teas time, or an incense stick of time, as amounts of time. (E.G. as a set amount of time for one martial artist to have to survive another martial artists attacks.) I've always kinda figured it to mean around 15 minutes (for simplicities'sake), but is there any historical evidence for what meaning of time they should actually convert to, and were they also actually used as units of time in the olden days? or is it just a wuxia trope that's being rehashed with each new novel?
there were more then one time tracking methods for Chinsese people , one for the emperor and his closest staff , and one for the peasants the peasants had the simple chu /// zheng method , which was dividing the day in too 2 sections , morning and afternoon the emperor had a way more sophisticated method of measuring accurate time measured to minutes
the naming of each timing is so meaningful. The word is short, but very meaningful indeed!
Incredible! I’ve watched many costume dramas and often wondered how time was kept in ancient China. In one drama, the eunuch announced the time as being 11:00 am (English translation.) I’m going to listen more closely to the actual Chinese word used to announce/tell the time. Then I’m coming right back to this awesome video for the actual translation. Thanks so very much for sharing this info with us. God bless you!! 🇺🇸❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸
Underrated channel. You're content is brilliant. Subscribed
Super cool. Thank you for sharing. I love the context this gives while learning mandarin.
your content is amazing. I'm Chinese and i don't know much about Chinese culture especially Han Chinese culture. It just makes me love Chinese culture. I hope you make content about Men's Hanfu too. Big thanks to you :)
yea same! what the heck! this is groundbreaking, how do I not know this!?
Good video and channel. I am glad to have found this.
Thank you for the efforts in making the videos, I am Chinese living in California, I never got to learn about Chinese Tradition, I truly appreciate your video
this was very, very helpful for my research. Thank you very much.
I look forward to seeing more of your good and wholesome content :) good video as always.
First time seeing your video. You speak perfect Chinese and English, the content is good, and I learned something about Chinese culture that I didn't know before. Subscribed. Thank you.
This is really cool and deserves a lot more views
My parents and I are watching The Longest Day in Chang'an and wanted to know more about the timekeeping! So glad to find this video, it was exactly what I was looking for 💜 Thank you for sharing!
I just started watching that TV series and noticed the time keeping they did. pretty interesting.
Thanks for your videos! I'm loving them
Loved it ! Thank you !
Thank you for the video! I love learning about Chinese culture!
Chinese time keeping and record keeping makes us one of the best historians. 👍
i prefer the method of record keeping where you write something on a rock and let future generations guess when the heck it happened
This is my first time on your channel and I absolutely fell in love! Thank you for such detailed information. I really appreciate it. Also -- you look really pretty :)
Great video. You managed to explain a lot in such a brief time. Subscribed.
So interesting to learn about the etymology of 小時 and 刻。Very clear explanation of an fascinating topic. 謝謝您！
5:12 Four 12 a.m? means what time?
thank you for this video!!! it was very informative and helpful! i watch a lot of drama in which they tell the time in 时辰 and i never got how long that is, but you explained very well!
I'm learning Chinese and watching dramas...your videos are very interesting..my favourit period is Tang :)😊(and Qing fashion)
Very interesting and well made video. Thank you! I came to understand more about ancient chinese timekeeping and now have found another channel to subscribe to!
I was brought here by something I'm trying to work out: I listened to the "The secret of the Golden flower, by Wang Chongyang" on youtube and he talks about even meditating for 1/4 hour being very beneficial. It's hard to know whether the author meant 1/4 Shi Chen or the translators understood the timekeeping difference and adjusted accordingly. I assumed ther would have been a different way of keeping time and I am happy to see this great video
You forgot to mention Guo ShouJing, who improved the accuracy of the water clock, and who measured the length of Earth year in 1280 that is off by only 26 seconds compared with today measurements, and it was the most accurate measurement in the whole World at that time. His calendar was used for over 300 years.
Interesting
What object did people use to measure time in the Fire Clock method?
Thank you
Any info on the men who announce the time at night, in kungfu movies? Clacking sticks and banging gong?
Excellent video. When the commoners ate their first meal? Rìzhong or Rìdié?
They eat the first meal at Shíshí 7-9 AM.
When I watch Three Kingdoms, it says second watch was at 9pm, 3rd watch 11pm. Was this just for military time??
台灣科博館理有個水運儀象臺，是使用北宋時期蘇頌和韓公廉等人所設計製作的，雖然主要是天文裝置，但其實也具備計時能力，還會有人偶依著時辰報時唷
啊 我以为那个已经失传了 我去找材料。谢谢。
I loved that drama
我觉得东汉一百二十刻才是正宗，谢谢你分享这个对我研究的易经和一生理论有用！
In wuxia/xianxia novels I also read a lot about a teas time, or an incense stick of time, as amounts of time. (E.G. as a set amount of time for one martial artist to have to survive another martial artists attacks.) I've always kinda figured it to mean around 15 minutes (for simplicities'sake), but is there any historical evidence for what meaning of time they should actually convert to, and were they also actually used as units of time in the olden days? or is it just a wuxia trope that's being rehashed with each new novel?
Interesting. Sun, Water, Fire, use nature to measure nature. Oh yeah, Ally, you're looking adorable as always.
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there were more then one time tracking methods for Chinsese people , one for the emperor and his closest staff ,
and one for the peasants
the peasants had the simple chu /// zheng method , which was dividing the day in too 2 sections , morning and afternoon
the emperor had a way more sophisticated method of measuring accurate time measured to minutes
Longest Day in Chang An is very historically accurate compared to those cheap costume dramas made by money thirsty directors.
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