In ancient China, the method of "dripping water from a copper pot" was used to measure time, and one day and night were divided into twelve hours, namely, Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Noon, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai, which correspond to the twenty-four hours today. From eleven to midnight, it's ugly from one to three, Yin Shi from three to five, and so on.
One hour in ancient times is equivalent to two hours today. So when clocks and watches were first introduced into China, some people called an hour "Da Shi" and an hour in the new time "Shi". Later, with the popularity of clocks and watches, the word "big hour" disappeared, but "hour" has been used to this day.
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Yin got up at dawn and went downstairs with a cup of boiling water; It's so light to go to the toilet regularly, and the morning exercise in gross time is the most pleasant; When I was reading and playing with my young grandchildren, when I was a chef, I became a kitchen master. Drink less wine at noon and take a lunch break before noon; Shen Shi reads newspapers and writes poems, and watches clouds outdoors; CCTV news has arrived, close your eyes and listen to rest.
Wash your face in the middle of the stone sea and enter the painting picture in your childhood dream; One of 12 two-hour periods in a day.
? When you are ugly, you wake up, you bleed, and you bleed. Blood flow, quiet inside, sleep till the rooster crows the dawn.
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