The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

As far as I can tell from a look online, the older system did not divide the ecliptic into 24 equal parts. It divided the year into 24 parts of just over 15 days each. 

But this doesn't really change that much with regards to that fact that there was a 24 * ~15 system.

Exactly.  I previously retracted the claim that the VMS "things" (label+star+nymph groups) are Babylonian degrees (which would have implied a division of the Ecliptic rather than the year). 

I have also suspended the claim that the Chinese explicitly divided every solar term interval into 15 parts (which would each be a 365.25/369 = ~1.01458 days, and would be the meaning of the VMS "things"), because I could not find a detailed description of the system that could have said so.  Maybe @chenxiang can help me find it?

All the best, --stolfi