Friday, 25 January 2008

Chinese Term for Chinese Hours (時辰稱謂)

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In order for those who dont really know the Chinese Term for our Chinese Hours, here's the quick reference list:

2300 – 1259 (Zi/Rat Hour 子時)

0100 – 0259 (Chou/Cow Hour 丑時)

0300 – 0459 (Yi/Tiger Hour 寅時)

0500 – 0659 (Mao/Rabbit Hour 卯時)

0700 – 0859 (Chen/Dragon Hour 辰時)

0900 – 1059 (Si/Snake Hour 巳時)

1100 – 1259 (Wu/Horse Hour 午時)

1300 – 1459 (Wei/Goat Hour 未時)

1500 – 1659 (Shen/Monkey Hour 申時)

1700 – 1859 (You/Rooster Hour 酉時)

1900 – 2059 (Xu/Dog Hour 戌時)

2100 – 2259 (Hai/Pig Hour 亥時)

29 comments:

  1. 非常管用,在此谢过!
    Cheers!

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  2. Welcome welcome.

    There's another set, but it will be very complicated, so I only post this simple one for reference :P

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  3. Hi Jave, I recall previously mention that the 'time' we follow is different right? like from 2300-0100 is zishi, but how can this be accurate in terms of Singapore official time?

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  4. 2300 - 0100 consist of 2 Chinese Hours, this is the common mistake that some of the Chinese made, to be more accurate, shall be 12:59.59.99, but in-order to make things easy, now ppl only record as 12:59, and so our Chinese Hour has to change to 1259 as the last point of Zi Hour.

    In Singapore, we are 1 Hour late from the Real Chinese Hour, and so, we can only start our Zi Hour at 0000Mn.

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  5. wow I did not know that the Chinese hours have something to do with our 5 organs 五腑 too.. great info.

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  6. i heard b4 the new day for chinese which is zi hour starts at 2300hrs. is that wrong?

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  7. This is true but not refering to our local timing, cos we are 1 hour behind the actual timing and so, we can only celebrate on 0000Mn.

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  8. This is the interesting part of our Chinese Culture & Taoism. All things that are in these 3 realms cannot escape from the Five Element. Once a person can escape from these Five Elements, that person will be considered as an Immortal or Saint - which the ultimate aim of being a cultivated person.

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  9. ooo... hmm that means i can pray to jade emperor on his birthday from 2300 hrs... ha my family always does that lei...

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  10. Yup, this is the practice of the older people, this is ok too, cos in China,Taiwan or Hong Kong, a new day starts from 2300 :P

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  11. The position of the 12 Earthly Branches in the picture shown is the same as how it is arranged on our fingers when people do calculations.

    Right?

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  12. Yes, this is the basic formation that one must know.

    Usually for such calculation, Yin will go 1st follow by Mao, then end with Chou.

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  13. Will elaborate more in the future.

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  14. Yup, but too bad, in SEA, such skills are being distorted and mis-used, really put our Chinese Culture and Taoist Teaching to a disgrace.

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  15. Hmm.. This I do not really know much. But I guess that the fact is so.

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  16. Hahahahaha, alot of these are being distorted, especially when they added other Non-Taoist Skills into our Traditional Taoist Skills....

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  17. Hahahahaha, alot of these are being distorted, especially when they added other Non-Taoist Skills into our Traditional Taoist Skills....

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  18. ... 听了一头雾水。。 haha

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  19. Wahahahaha, its like that, slowly you will understand.

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  20. Haha, a lousy word to describe the common scene is Rojak.

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  21. =p k waiting for ur next entry to elaborate =0 ha thanks!

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  22. Hahahaha.. will.. do keep a look out on that... being holding on to the intro for quite sometime already..

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