Sexagenary Year (CST)
| Epoch | Confidence | Associated with |
|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2696 BCE +16:00:00 | High | Beijing |
Overview
The Sexagenary Cycle is a system of counting years in the Chinese calendar (and several other aspects of life). It is a multiplication of the 10 Heavenly Stems and the 12 Earthly Branches (Chinese Zodiac) with half of the combinations left out, leading to a total cycle length of 60. The cycle moves to the next combination on the day of the New Year in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Info
| 10 Heavenly Stems | 12 Earthly Branches |
|---|---|
| 甲 (Jia) | 子 (Zi) |
| 乙 (Yi) | 丑 (Chou) |
| 丙 (Bing) | 寅 (Yin) |
| 丁 (Ding) | 卯 (Mao) |
| 戊 (Wu) | 辰 (Chen) |
| 己 (Ji) | 巳 (Si) |
| 庚 (Geng) | 午 (Wu) |
| 辛 (Xin) | 未 (Wei) |
| 壬 (Ren) | 申 (Shen) |
| 癸 (Gui) | 酉 (You) |
| 戌 (Xu) | |
| 亥 (Hai) |
Accuracy
This calendar system should be very accurate. It may be off by a few days at the start of a given year, or rarely an entire month, due to the inaccuracies from the Chinese lunisolar calendar calculations. However, it corrects itself by the next new moon.
| Dependencies |
|---|
| Chinese |
Source
Common Source
Primary Sources
This calendar is based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar calculations found here.