What were there in ancient times?

In ancient times, a * * * had twelve hours, as follows.

In ancient China, one day and night was divided into twelve sections, each called one hour, which is now two hours. In the name of time, counting from eleven o'clock in the evening, the first hour is midnight, from eleven o'clock to one o'clock at midnight.

It is 23:00- 1:00 in childhood, ugly 1:00-3:00, 3:00-5:00 in Yin Shi, 5:00-7:00 in Shi Mao, 7:00-9:00 in the morning and 9: 00 in the afternoon.

Recycling, one cycle is 12. Often used with Tiangan, 60 cycles. It can be used to record years, months, days and hours. The so-called birth is the stem of the time, year, month and hour of birth, named after the word * * *.

In ancient China, a day was divided into twelve hours, and each hour was equal to two hours now. According to legend, the ancients named each time according to the time of animals in the zodiac. This is the twelve-hour system used in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, it was named Midnight, Cockcrow, Pingdan, Sunrise, Food Time, Horn, Day, Day, Day and Sunset, which was decided by people. It is also expressed by the twelve earthly branches, and it is the child time from 23: 00 to 1 at midnight, the ugly time from 1 to 3: 00, and the Yin Shi time from 3: 00 to 5: 00, which are recursive in turn.