2 hours ago
(Yesterday, 04:42 PM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Reading back over some of the recent back and forth, you may not fully appreciate what a solar term was legally and culturally, and why we have a pretty good idea how they were defined, not just abstractly, but like how.
I admit that I have practically no knowledge of Chinese astronomy, astrology, calendrics, or history.
But I know that, in the time of Emperor Dàin Chéo of the Gong Dynasty, they would boil over slow fire anyone who dared to invent wild stories about what Emperors did or did not do.
All the best, --stolfi