Traditional Chinese timekeeping

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Explanatory chart of Chinese timekeeping

Traditional Chinese timekeeping refers to the time standards for divisions of the day used in China until the introduction of the Shixian calendar in 1628 at the beginning of the Qing dynasty.[1][2]

  1. ^ Kiyoshi Yabuuchi (1963). "Astronomical tables in China, from the Wutai to the Ch'ing dynasties". Japanese Studies in the History of Science. 2: 94–100. ISSN 0090-0176.
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