Astrology Glossary

Jiazi

Jiazi (甲子), the sixty-day and sixty-year cycle, and the oldest continuously-kept count in the Chinese calendar: ten heavenly stems turned against twelve earthly branches give sixty distinct names before any repeats. It has run unbroken for more than three thousand years, and the same sixty count the years, the days and the hours.

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