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Heavenly Stems

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of the kings of the Shang in their temple names. These consisted of a relational term ('father', 'mother', 'grandfather', 'grandmother') which was added to one of the ten Stems—e.g. 'Grandfather Jia'. These names are often found on Shang bronzes designating whom the bronze was honoring (and on which
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as the names of the ten days of the week. They were also used in Shang-era rituals in the names of dead family members, who were offered sacrifices on the corresponding day of the Shang week. Stems are no longer used as names for the days of the week, but have acquired many other uses. Most
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The literal meanings of the characters were, and are now, roughly as follows. Among the modern meanings, those deriving from the characters' position in the sequence of Heavenly Stems are in italics.
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systems. These would have been used to track the moon's progression along its monthly circuit, in conjunction with the earthly branches referring to its phase.
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radical may be added to any of the aforementioned character to indicate the upper case form of the corresponding letter: e.g.
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day of the week their rites would have been performed, that day matching the day designated by their name). The sinologist
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Some scholars believe the Heavenly Stems, and the associated ten-day week, are connected to a story from
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Jonathan Smith has proposed that the heavenly stems predate the Shang and originally referred to ten
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Chang Tai-Ping (1978). "The role of the t'ien-kan ti-chih terms in the naming system of the Yin".
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characters were drawings; he identifies similarities between these and asterisms in the later
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In Korea and Japan, the Heavenly Stems are used in legal documents: the Korean renderings
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prominently, they have been used in conjunction with the associated set of twelve
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are represented by the twelve Earthly Branches, and the final four letters
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where ten suns appeared in the sky, whose order comprised a ten-day cycle (
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indigenous to China and used throughout East Asia, first attested
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The Heavenly Stems remain widely used as ordinals throughout the
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words related to beetles, crustaceans, fingernails, toenails
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Index

Celestial stem
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Southern Min
Hokkien
POJ
Vietnamese alphabet
Chữ Hán
Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization
ordinals
Shang dynasty
Earthly Branches
sexagenary cycle
Chinese calendars
Chinese mythology
given names
David Keightley
yin and yang
wuxing
asterisms
ecliptic
oracle bone script
Four Images
Twenty-Eight Mansions

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