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Pat
Date : 2008-08-16 / 12:31PM
Why is the days of the week numbered one to six and then sunday is tian and not qi?
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Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2008-08-05 Language : None Posts : 1 Responses : 1 Comments : 0 |
| | Yang Hao hotmail.com
2008-08-16 / 04:26PM | | I often wondered about this too. my best guess is when chinese society changed from the Lunar to Gregorian date system they decided it would be easier just to number the days from 1 – 6. sunday being xingqitian or xingqiri. ri means sun and tian means day. | |
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Chinese Mandarin :Registered on : 2007-01-01 Language : English, Mandarin Chinese Posts : 0 Responses : 2359 Comments : 75 |
| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2008-08-16 / 10:29PM | | First of all, xīng qī qī sounds weird and hard to pronounce. Then “tiān” means day and “sky”. Xīng qī tiān is quite important in the ancient times, that’s why they call it “the sky’s day or the god’s day”
Benny
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| | Pat hotmail.com
2008-08-17 / 03:13PM | | Thanks, for the reply, I have wondered about this for sometime now, I can relate to the God’s day thats makes sense to me.
Xie xie ni, Benny and Yang Hao | |
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