Last revised: 2026-10-18
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This site publishes in both Chinese and English. This English version carries the English papers and the index of them; the Chinese version carries the Chinese essays and the Chinese-language preprints. The Chinese text is the original; the English is the corresponding translation.
Author: Chujia Kuang (邝楚嘉), pen-name Jiayan-Yide (嘉言一得) — independent researcher in Jieyang, Guangdong, China. The open outputs collected here are released under CC BY 4.0.
English Articles
Essays in English, newest first:
- “Zhengyue” Was Not Originally the First Month of the Year（2026-10-04）
- The Day Began at Eleven at Night: The Double-Hour and Its Measure（2026-10-04）
- Clock Time Is Not the Double-Hour of Your Birth（2026-10-04）
- How Is Time Produced?（2026-10-04）
- Three Roads in the Sky: the Ecliptic, the Lunar Path and the Celestial Equator（2026-10-04）
- The Ancients’ Sky: The Three Enclosures and the Twenty-Eight Mansions（2026-10-04）
- Without a Compass: How the Ancients Determined Direction（2026-10-04）
- Stems and Branches: From One Tree to Twenty-Two Characters（2026-10-04）
- Jupiter Does Not Go Round in Twelve Years（2026-10-04）
- Lichun Is Not a Day: The Solar Term Is an Instant（2026-10-04）
- Between Looking Up and Looking Down: The Origin of an Empirical Study of Ancient Chinese Astronomy and Calendrics（2026-09-25）
- The Four Fixed Stars of the Yaodian: A Set of Numbers That Will Not Agree（2026-09-25）
- The Verifiability of the Oracle-Bone Records of 「日有食之」（2026-09-25）
- Ten Stems, Twelve Branches: Why Only Sixty Pairings Remain（2026-09-22）
- Three Calendars, Three Kinds of Time（2026-09-22）
All English articles are collected in the category English.
English Versions of the Papers
Papers whose English version is posted on this site:
- 003 · Three Calendars, Three Kinds of Time —— 英文版 Three Calendars, Three Kinds of Time ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22821576
- 004 · Lichun Is Not a Day: The Solar Term Is an Instant —— 英文版 Lichun Is Not a Day ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22837998
- 005 · “Zhengyue” Was Not Originally the First Month of the Year —— 英文版 “Zhengyue” Was Not Originally the First Month of the Year ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22851039
- 006 · The Day Began at Eleven at Night —— 英文版 The Day Began at Eleven at Night ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22866122
- 007 · Clock Time Is Not the Double-Hour of Your Birth —— 英文版 Clock Time Is Not the Double-Hour of Your Birth ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22884370
- 008 · How Is Time Produced? —— 英文版 How Is Time Produced? ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22906313
- 009 · Three Roads in the Sky —— 英文版 Three Roads in the Sky ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22926807
- 010 · The Ancients’ Sky: The Three Enclosures and the Twenty-Eight Mansions —— 英文版 The Ancients’ Sky ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22797854
- 011 · Without a Compass —— 英文版 Without a Compass ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22948873
- 012 · Stems and Branches: From One Tree to Twenty-Two Characters —— 英文版 Stems and Branches ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22949963
- 013 · Ten Stems, Twelve Branches: Why Only Sixty Pairings Remain —— 英文版 Ten Stems, Twelve Branches ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22990186
- 015 · Jupiter Does Not Go Round in Twelve Years —— 英文版 Jupiter Does Not Go Round in Twelve Years ｜ DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23131796
The complete index of the datasets, the code and the preprints — with their DOIs — is on Publications.
Chinese-language Datasets and Preprints
The same material in Chinese, for readers who work in Chinese:
- Chinese Calendar Open Datasets (24 solar-term instants, chronology of calendar reforms, sexagenary day-count) —— DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22788686
- Chinese-language preprints and datasets (Chinese titles · 15 items) —— osf.io/3wvkh
- Preprint repository —— github.com/Kuangchujia/kuangchujia-preprints
All data on this page were collected and compiled by Chujia Kuang.