The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

they must be halves of Zodiac signs

That argument is meant to say only that each of the diagrams with 15 labels must represent one half of whatever each of the other 30-label diagrams represents.  I though that you had disputed this point earlier.

And, again, my claim is that each of the 15-label diagrams represents the interval between two solar terms, and each of the 30-label diagrams represents two consecutive such intervals.  Not a Zodiac sign or half-sign.

By the way, this claim (call it ZST = "Zodiac diagrams are about the Chinese solar terms" theory) would be consistent with the COT and would strongly confirm it, but it is not essential to it.  Even if the COT is true (and you know that I am totally convinced it is, for the SBJ≈SPS evidence), those diagrams could in fact be about the Western Zodiac signs, without any connection to the Chinese solar terms.  

But I am still waiting for a plausible explanation of all four puzzles under the EOT...