From: "Kenji Schwarz"
> And, for that matter (and more specifically calendrical, the 24 "divided
> pneuma" (or whatever; jie2 qi) -- the 15 day periods. Do people use them
> any more at all?
This sounds familiar. I imagine you can find these in the Chinese almanac.
> (On a side note, I've heard & read it claimed that the associations of the
> elements with the day names is in fact a Tang (or slightly earlier) import
> from Central Asia, brought to China by those omnipresent yet elusive
> Sogdian merchants. In any case, it's not attested in pre-Han, or so far
> as I know, Han-period texts.)
On your own here.
Kou