Traditional Chinese timekeeping
Timekeeping before Shixian calendar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Unless otherwise specified, Chinese text in this article is written in the format Simplified Chinese; Traditional Chinese, Pinyin. If the simplified and traditional Chinese characters are identical, they are written once.
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]