The application of the f ive phases-ancient ten months'calendar in the theory of Inner Canon of Huangdi / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

The corresponding season of the ve zang-viscera is the important content of the correspondence between man and universe theory in the Inner Canon of Huangdi,and the corresponding season of the ve zang-viscera related to several modes of calendar.With the exception of the way that combine the ve zang-viscera with calendar which make use of criss and cross or divide into ve parts on 12 months of a year,the authors believe that the newly discovered ancient ten months' calendar had been showed clearly in the Inner Canon of Huangdi.The text of the Inner Canon of Huangdi that cannot be explained well in accordance with twelve months' calendar can be explained by ancient ten months' calendar,and the ancient ten months' calendar is the basis that the ve phases theory is derived from the concept of the ve seasons.