Presenter Information

Rey TIQUIA

Event Title

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Location

AM308, Lingnan University

Start Date

19-6-2009 2:00 PM

End Date

19-6-2009 3:30 PM

Language

English

Description

This era of unpredictable and at times colossal global climactic weather changes place tremendous pressure upon the human internal environment to adapt to these dire changes in the external environment. It places tremendous pressure upon our inner Guardian Qi wei qi as well as the air or atmosphere da qi (which the Chinese Martial artist Lu Ji Tang refers to metaphorically as similar to our inner Guardian Qi).

In premodern China, climate change is always contingent upon time and the seasons i.e. the twelve two-hour periods, lunar month, seventy two pentads, twenty four solar periods, the four seasons, the year and the sixty temporal units Jia Zi.

The cosmic yin and yang energies of heaven and earth ascend and descend and climate weather conditions during the four seasons resonate with these changes. Humanity must harmonize and adapt to these changes as well.

However, the current dominance of modernistic temporal systems by way of the Gregorian calendar and the Greenwich Mean Time has led to the effacement of local and traditional temporal systems such as the Chinese astrocalendrical system. This has led to the spatio-temporal desynchronisation of humanity with the natural flow of the seasons/time shi. This is clearly demonstrated in the practice of Chinese medicine in the southern hemispherical region of Australia and New Zealand where the flow and movement of our Qi is out of synchronization with the occurrence and flow of the seasons/time.

To help harmonize our Qi and our health with the nature’s temporal order I have constructed a north-south hemispherical lunisolar calendar, which may contribute towards the synchronization of our respective spatial locales with nature’s motion of temporality.

Document Type

Discussion

Recommended Citation

Tiquia, R. (2009). Climate change, the traditional Chinese calendar and modernity. In China and global climate change: Proceedings of the conference held at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 18-19 June 2009 (pp. 560-574). Centre for Asian Pacific Studies and the Environmental Studies Programme, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

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Jun 19th, 2:00 PM Jun 19th, 3:30 PM

Climate change, the traditional Chinese calendar and modernity

AM308, Lingnan University

This era of unpredictable and at times colossal global climactic weather changes place tremendous pressure upon the human internal environment to adapt to these dire changes in the external environment. It places tremendous pressure upon our inner Guardian Qi wei qi as well as the air or atmosphere da qi (which the Chinese Martial artist Lu Ji Tang refers to metaphorically as similar to our inner Guardian Qi).

In premodern China, climate change is always contingent upon time and the seasons i.e. the twelve two-hour periods, lunar month, seventy two pentads, twenty four solar periods, the four seasons, the year and the sixty temporal units Jia Zi.

The cosmic yin and yang energies of heaven and earth ascend and descend and climate weather conditions during the four seasons resonate with these changes. Humanity must harmonize and adapt to these changes as well.

However, the current dominance of modernistic temporal systems by way of the Gregorian calendar and the Greenwich Mean Time has led to the effacement of local and traditional temporal systems such as the Chinese astrocalendrical system. This has led to the spatio-temporal desynchronisation of humanity with the natural flow of the seasons/time shi. This is clearly demonstrated in the practice of Chinese medicine in the southern hemispherical region of Australia and New Zealand where the flow and movement of our Qi is out of synchronization with the occurrence and flow of the seasons/time.

To help harmonize our Qi and our health with the nature’s temporal order I have constructed a north-south hemispherical lunisolar calendar, which may contribute towards the synchronization of our respective spatial locales with nature’s motion of temporality.