Abstract: The term Zhouxing(Circular Star) is explained by The Chinese Etymologicon and The Chinese Comprehensive Dictionary as Suixing(means 12 years) by quoting poems form Bai Ju-yi and Zhou Liang-gong as examples,which is proved to be one-sided and wrong.The meanings of this term in the ancient documents,besides the meanings cited in the above dictionaries(but the most examples quoted in the dictionaries are wrong),still have the following meanings,i.e.Ⅰ.one year(for time);Ⅱ.years,ages;Ⅲ.one year(for age);and Ⅳ.the name of a star(not Suixing,which means year star).
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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