The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

And I know that until very recently you were very firm that that content looked like degrees:

Yes but I have retracted that -- in part.  

The interval between consecutive solar terms has always been 1/24 of the year or of the the Ecliptic.  That would be 15 Babylonian degrees (plus or minus small shifts due to the Earth's orbit being slightly elliptical).  But I do not have any evidence that the Chinese ever explicitly divided each of those intervals into 15 equal intervals.  I simply haven't looked at any Chinese astronomy, astrology, or calendar book; much less one that mentions solar terms or has circular diagrams for anything.

But the VMS diagrams do show 360 "things" in the year -- not 365, not 365.25; and the small diagrams have 15 things, while the large ones have 30 things. Never 31.  

So those "things" are not days.  What are they?