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Meaning of 干支

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gān zhī
the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 and twelve earthly branches 十二枝 ; sexagenary cycle
Example Sentences
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Quite complicated. The Chinese used to count time by using Ganzhi.
2
Ancient Chinese people invented the method to designate the years by the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
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Nevertheless, when did the way of numbering the years with Gan-Zhi start, different people have different versions.
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It gives us a method to know the conversion between Chinese era and the Gregorian calendar.
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In the fourth section, it is about the argumentation of ship type of the non-stop artery freighter in Yuan River based on Chaos optimization method.