First, the embodiment of time in poetry. When ancient poets wrote poems, they would create according to their own mood and what they wanted to see. Many of them will use various nicknames to express time in their poems. Wang Changling, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, used this word in his masterpiece "The Separation of Furong Inn and Xin Qiji"? Pingming? A word indicating the time of seeing a guest off. ? Ping Ming is seeing off guests in the brig in Chushan? Are you online? Pingming? It refers to the dawn, which is in line with the artistic conception of poetry. After a night of cold rain in autumn and winter in Wudi River, the poet bid farewell to his friends at dawn.
Second, the division of day and night The ancients divided the time of day and night according to the rise and fall of stars, with the sun facing the sun as the daytime, and vice versa. The division of day and night is also determined according to the traditional twelve branches of China. Twelve hours a day is divided into four hours, and each hour is divided into eight hours according to time regulations. Record the time with chamber pot or clock every day. Earlier, when people measured time, they would use the time of natural creatures to calculate time, such as? Chicken crow? 、? People decide? Wait a minute. The ancients counted time by crowing in the middle of the night and the time when people fell asleep.
Third, the nickname of ancient time The ancients divided the calculation of time into 65438+ February as a cycle, which was used in conjunction with Tiangan to record the specific year, month, day and time. In ancient times, posthumous title was divided into twelve branches, also known as Zishi, Choushi, Yin Shi, Shi Mao, Chen Shi, Shi Si, Noon, Weishi, Shenshi, Youshi, Xushi and Shihai. These earthly branches correspond to the time point from midnight to when people fall asleep. According to the observation of astronomical phenomena in different seasons, it is estimated that the time length of each branch is about two hours, and each corresponding time node in the twelve branches corresponds to the working law of our ancients, so future generations will use the twelve branches as a substitute for recording time.