" CHINESE NEW YEAR "
TIGRE

11 - FEBRUARY - 2010

The carved inscriptions on shells and bones of the Shang Dynasty (BC 1765-1 122), in the era before the Trojan War, demonstrated maturity of the chronology of the Chinese traditional calendar. This peculiar chronology consistent numbering system twelfth cyclic evolved over time into the schedule called for the academic as "The Cyclone Sexagesimal of Ten and Twelve Celestial Trunks Earthly Branches. The timetable applies mainly to time, also counting months, days and hours. The original and proper sense of the heavenly stems and earthly branches involves the entire period of vital development of plants and animals within a year, which obviously is related to changes in nature based on the translation of the Earth around the Sun or traditional Chinese calendar is basically a solar annual almanac. However, the astronomers calculated reference consult the months growth and the waning of the moon in her revolution round the Earth, explaining the system time with the doctrines of ancient Chinese philosophy based on dialectical logic. The logs heavenly and earthly branches, the two decimal systems and duodecimal respectively, were combined in a cyclone sexagesimal perfectly, forming a chain of links developed sustainably in time and space. If we take as the start of the cyclone the A.C. 2697. year of birth of Huang Di, history of Chinese culture at the age of Abraham in 2010 is the seventy-ninth storm of Chinese traditional calendar.

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YEAR: 2010

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