When is a quarter past one?

1, the traditional time unit in China. Divide a day and a night into twelve sections, each called one hour, which is now two hours. Twelve o'clock is named after the earthly branch, starting from midnight, and it is midnight at midnight, and noon at noon. Song Su Shi's "Three Provinces and Six Horizontal Lakes Open": "The gate is under the jurisdiction of newly-built money. Although it is closed for one or two hours at high tide ... those who want to enter and leave the gate by public or private boats will not sit still until it is closed."

Clear sky peach blossom left: "the day is short and the night is long, three hours away." Act II of Cao Yu's Wang Zhaojun: "Half an hour ago, he accompanied the son of heaven to dinner."

2, generally refers to the time or time. Jin Dong's explanation of the first volume of The West Chamber is: "There is not an hour I don't miss, and there is not a night I don't dream." Journey to the west: "all this work is just too much trouble, delaying the time." ? Wei Wei? Chapter 23 of the fourth part of the Oriental: "This is called: it's not that you don't report, it's not the time." ?