‘Reversing’ the Flow of the Ancient Chinese Calendrical Subseasonal Phases Jie Qi in Australia:The Construction of a Chinese Medical & Agricultural Lunisolar Calendar(Northern and Southern Hemispheres)(Continued Part 2)

作     者：Rey Tiquia Rey Tiquia(Department of History & Philosophy of Science,University of Melbourne,Australia)

作者机构：Department of History & Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of MelbourneAustralia 

出 版 物：《山西中医学院学报》 (Journal of Shanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

年 卷 期：2008年第9卷第1期

页      面：2-5页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120402[管理学-社会医学与卫生事业管理(可授管理学、医学学位)] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：中国 传统中医药 医疗卫生事业 澳大利亚 

摘      要：1 The Cyclical Flow of the Sixty-Gan zhi Temporal Units Time for the Chinese is forever flowing without beginning or end ,noted Thome H. Fang. And it is customary for Chinese to use the kan-Chih(gan zhi)to mark the passage of *** are ten heavenly stems(gan)and twelve earthly branches(zhi),an alternating and sequential combination of the two makes a cycle of sixty years,months,days and two-hour period shi chen(时辰)in a day . The sixty gan zhi temporal cycle is very important in the practice of Chinese *** is an important practical temporal tool in the acupuncture practice of 子午流注(zi wu liu zhu)which is a method of choosing and using acupuncture points in dealing with a specific clinical pattern in accordance with the patient s temporal clotting and flowing of his/her Qi and *** addition,the sixty gan-zhi temporal cyclical system is also an important tool in forecasting adverse weather/climactic conditions and the illnesses that comes with them on the basis of the ancient methodology of the circulating five elements/phases and the six climactic influences 五运六气.Hence,I have included this gan zhi or celestial stems and earthly branches for each of the days in the Chinese Medical and Agricultural Lunisolar Calendar for the year of Rat wu zi nian(wu is the celestial stem while zi is the earthly branch for the year 2008).