This 4,700-Year-Old Calendar System is Still in Use Today!
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2020
- The Chinese calendar has been in use for more than 4,700 years. And it incorporates the Chinese zodiac, the Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, Chinese astrology and much more.
According to this system, this year 2020 is the year gengzi and the year of the rat.
I will explain the significance of the gengzi year at the end of this video.
1:36 What is the Ganzhi system and how does it work?
7:12 Why is this year significant?
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This was so concise and easy to understand. The charts you made definitely helped. I never knew time telling and fortune telling were so closely entwined with each other like this. Thanks for the great upload!
Wow I’m overwhelmed and grateful for your content here but I still don’t understand the calendar / time system 😔 probably because I’m not able to read the Chinese character signs??
Actually, I also feel hard to count even though I can read Chinese character.
“What goes around comes around” or “as you sow, so shall you reap” is the basic understanding of how karma, the law of cause and effect, works.
Happy CNY 2572
In Japan, some Japanese traditional festivals and events are done on traditional Japanese moon-phased calendar:-)
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I thought meiji restoration made them go with solar calendar?
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@Michael In Japanese law, Japanese calendar was changed to solar calendar in 1, Jan., 1873 (Meiji 6), but some traditional culture (kyushogatsu(旧正月), kyubon(旧盆), etc.) kept actions in traditional moon-phased calendar:-)
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In Korea, some Korean traditional festivals and events (seollal(설날・구정), chuseog(추석), etc.) are done on traditional Korean moon-phased calendar:-)
Loved the video. I read somewhere that the 干 in 干支 is derived from the character 幹 (stem/trunk) and 支 is derived from 枝 (branch). The video clarified this information very well.
The 干支 system is used in Japan as well, arranged into a unique system by the Onmyoji, practitioners of ying yang philosophy that worked for the government at that time. Very cool
That was most interesting, but I'm completely confused, lol. Didn't understand this.
My mom celebrates her birthday strictly by the Chinese calendar and I remember celebrating her birthday twice because there was a "leap month".
we missed you Ally
i hope you have a good year!
Fantastic research!! Thank you very much for educating us on the lunar calendar !! Throughly enjoy your videos!
传播种花家文化的小姐姐就是最厉害的！！加油啊！！！
We missed your videos so much! Thank you so much for all the educational videos! I love them so much!!!!
Ally, thank you so much for this explanation! Making it look simple is the most difficult, and you clearly did it. We have so much to learn from the ancient Chinese.
thanks. I love learning about things.
Me after watching this video: WHOA!!!
Also me: Will I still be alive after 60 years? I wonder what will happen in 2080...
stay safe in NY! Hope to see your new uploads soon.
❤️Love this❤️
Can Chinese astrology tell us about our past lives?
Though my grammar/vocabulary/hanzi questions are more important. Great video!
I really like your Channel! I was looking forward to watching your videos
I felt that this topic is burning my brain as well.
great explained, this is the first time I understood the 60 years cycle, thank you very much
Greetings Ms. FTY. Very detailed explanation but easy to understand. Would be nice if you could do a video about the Chinese Almanac (通勝). btw, will be celebrating my 5th cycle next year!
Hey, I really really enjoy your videos and has learnt a lot. I have a little suggestion, perhaps in the future if you could list some references that you’ve came across during research would be very beneficial to those who want to find out more about a topic^^ looking forward to new videos
You look so cute! Thank you for making those videos. You made history fun!
Even as a Chinese, I don't know it that well. So good for her
Interesting...so what I get from the numbers are:
_Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches_
*10 Stems × 6 Cycles = 60 Days*
*60 Days × 6 Cycles = 360 Days*
*360 Days ÷ 12 Branches = 30 Days*
I keep finding that all ancient cultures followed a solar year of *360 Days.*
I love western astrology and would love to learn more about Chinese fortunes
Actually it was hard for me to get all the information but at least got the gist, but maybe it's just me most of people in the comments actually understood very well the video's topic.
4:27 Basically, it is an old impractical system that is based on both solar and lunar. That's why the month moves every year to adjust with the solar system, so the New Year will always be between in January or February, unlike Islamic calendar which is based on lunar only which results the New Year falls in any month of our calendar.
It's very hard to wrap your head around because it's so far from our understanding of months and years. The concepts of these branches and stems and remembering them all and the appropriate combinations is just foreign to us. For people of the time it would be what you're raised with, but it comes across as very overcomplicated by modern standards. Still very interesting.
Correction: Technically the changing of the Chinese Zodiac does not occur on Chinese New Year day, but on the
first day of Spring in China. It is a very common mistake !!!! In 2021 the first day of Spring is on February 3rd and New Year
is on February 12th . That is from the Rat to Ox
Chinese New Year aka spring festival or 春节 is the first day of spring in the Chinese calendar.
Many Chinese people celebrate their birthdays by using Chinese calendar today.
In contrast I am fairly sure that the Chinese atomic theory of 5 elements (wood metal fire earth air) does in fact play into vocabulary building as each of those is a determinant in phono-semantic characters.
Yet, I am still trying to figure out even what the pictographs of the branches and stems mean, and thus by extension how they influence the characters which are clearly derived from them. In other words Help Me Please, idgi.
That was a great prediction about 2020. I was brought here because my class mate told me her birthday is different because China has there own calendar. How does the Chinese calendar compare to the Gregorian calendar?
You are so pretty and intelligent❤️
So happy Chinese new year....or lunar year as some call it. Different calendars that follow the moon have their year turn at different times, so this calendar should be called specifically the Chinese one. I assume some politicalcorrectists wanted it to not be referred as "Chinese"
Is 2024 iyear 4721 using the old Han Dynasty calendar?
I really like your videos, but I have to admit that my brain was a little confused watching this. 😅
Worth noting that the standard Western calendar does not start on the actual birth year of Jesus, but instead on a flawed medieval estimate that's generally believed to be about 4 years off from the actual year Jesus would have been born.
I still prefer BC and AD, though.
@@mnbr6884 I did for a while too, now I've gotten used to BCE and CE and feel like something's wrong when I see BC and AD lmao
@@ksthrnlghts It's historical revisionism to make atheists feel better.
3:01 1. Why do they do a 60 month cycle? Is this the same idea of the 5 year plan in china and the soviet union?
If the dates follow the pattern of the years then each month has 60 days?
No. The Chinese uses a lunisolar calendar which is approximately 30 days per month, with some only 29. It was suspected much earlier was a standardized 30 days, making 360 days per year, which matches 6 times 60 nicely. it went haywire and was corrected by having a 13th month during Shang dynasty.
It of little wonder why this system is not used elsewhere.
Considering yin and yang are all about balance, I’m surprised they are split 10 and 12
Very informative but please include the English word for each to make it more understandable for non Chinese. Xie xie
Now is year MMXXII in Gregorian calendar, 5782 in Hebrew calendar (beginning in the genesis)
My comment to 1:13 after you tell Chinese calendar is the oldest for being run 3500 years
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We count a year starting at month Tishrei around sep/oct, following both moon and sun, so sometimes there's 13 months, like now. This is 6th month, Adar, now, and next month is Adar again, the month that doubles when it's a leap year. Purim (פורים - dooms, which we were saved from) ,holiday that have influence from carnival , always comes in Adar, and is celebrated in the second Adar when the year is expanded. Purimon is a fullmoon party sometimes mimicking Halloween. Some kids who can't wait have petite purim in the first Adar. I was born in Adar so my existence is blessed together with alcohol and cosplay.
Adar the first started at the new moon, which was also start of tiger year and imbolc. The well known purim song tells that beginning of Adar is a lot of happiness, even though the feast comes in the middle of the month (again, next month) but we do have something for 1 of Adar: family day (used to be mother day)
Yup, St. brigid day, candlemas, February started together with Adar (muslim month too since hijri "year" is only by moon so Ramadan can come at December and then in June several years later)
So there's an opposite of blue moon. Gregorian month aligned with a moon month (yup this is the original meaning of month)
Something actually happened two days before. I just mentioned many things to happen in same day
its actually heavenly branches and earthly twigs/stems. heaven is always greater than earth, the other way around can never happen
About the fortune telling part, don't take it seriously😅
I think Yi Qing is an utterly underused hanzi teaching / learning resource and hate the fact it uses a horribly bad transliteration in most editions which also kindly omit the han characters :/ yellow bridge has a decent copy of that at least.
Similarly, I suppose the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac racing competition are somehow (how?) related to the earthly branches? If so, how?
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I keep hoping the heavenly stems and earthly branches have some relationship to the Chinese writing system, grammar, or vocabulary.
They don't seem to in fact. Other than as system for listing items or times it seems not so useful. Am I wrong?
It is still a matter of debate till today actually. The earth stems were also used in the posthumous title of Shang dynasty kings, making a lot of archaeological and historical speculations. Some went as wild as suggesting the Shang dynasty has a 12 tribes origin, evolving from amalgamation from 2 groups of 10 tribes. The heaven branches and earth stems were relics of those early days. 🙄
@@kennywong4239 Greeks, Jews and Norse all claim to have descended from 12 different clans. So their is probably some historicity to it all which is sadly lost to us in exactitude by the ravages of time.
Though, rather than mythological or pre-historical purposes I am really hoping the stems and branches might serve some language purpose. They don't seem to, other than for ordering lists.
I am also hoping that the Chinese elemental theory might explain uses of determinants like 火 水 木 金 气 at least four are common determinants.
@@kennywong4239 oh, and the Norse/Finns also claim to be an amalgamation, which is clearly the case. The old gods (Finnic) were the Vanir, the new ones (Norse) the Aesir. Though, not two tribes of ten clans each. May not be genealogically related but is at least an interesting parallel.
@@QuizmasterLaw There is a legend of 10 suns. Some argued that the 12 tribes etc was over speculating based on Western legends. There are no evidence to support any of them till date.
@@kennywong4239 I just thought the legend of the archer shooting all the suns out of the sky was some ancient piece of history of a devastating meteor shower.
Though, the Chinese ancient week had ten days, each with its own sun, so maybe that's what it means, the recognition that there is only one sun.
I never though hou yi was about different competing tribes being unified.
再講下去，就要聊到八字算命了⋯⋯