Weird line of research
Dec. 25th, 2005 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I was thinking about holidays and new years and such, and looked up the Chinese New Year to see how their calendar began. Wellp, I found out that they measure time beginning with the reign of the Yellow Emperor. Huang Di is historically remembered as a dragon because some scholars believe that the Huang Di used a snake as his coat of arms....
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Date: 2005-12-25 04:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-26 03:13 am (UTC)That's really interesting. I always wondered about the rationalization for that that. One assumes some lesser functionary was reponsible for the Platypus.
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