丙辰

bǐngchén
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Bingchen, the 53rd year of the sexagenary cycle (e.g. 1916, 1976, 2036)

Examples

Sūshì de 《 Shuǐ Diào Gē Tóu 》 xiě yú bǐngchén zhōng qiū.
Su Shi's 'Shui Diao Ge Tou' was written on the Mid-Autumn Festival of the bingchen year.
Yī jiǔ qī liù nián shì bǐngchén nián.
1976 was a bingchen year.

Tips

culture
is the 3rd Heavenly Stem (天干); is the 5th Earthly Branch (地支, 'dragon'). The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches combine to form the 60-year sexagenary cycle (六十甲子) used to date years in classical and traditional Chinese contexts.
history
Famously associated with 's 1076 Mid-Autumn poem 《水调歌头·明月几时》, which begins 丙辰中秋欢饮达旦大醉 ('on the Mid-Autumn of the bingchen year, we drank merrily until dawn; greatly drunk, I wrote this piece').

Stroke Order

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