《素问·六节藏象论篇》“六六”“九九”考辨

天以“六六”之节,人以“九九”制会,是两种不同历史阶段所用历法的概括,其中“六六”之节源自远古以太阳一个运行周期分为五行十节的历法,其一节为六六三十六日;“九九”制会是对汉武帝时期《太初历》以月亮一个运行周期为29 43/81日,既朔策八十一分法的概括。今人对《黄帝内经》的理解常以王冰的注解为依据,然而王冰对“六六”之节的注解存在错算,对“九九”制会的注解模糊不清,对1000多年来后人理解《黄帝内经》的思想造成误导。本文旨在从古代历法角度探讨“六六”“九九”之意。

"Six-six""Nine-nine"Textual Research on The Plain Questions

Heaven makes one year with"six-six"section,human match it with"nine-nine",this is the generalizaition of two different ancient calendars."The Six-six section"is from the far ancient"Five-Movements"calendar,as a Sun-calendar,one year was divided by Five-movement with ten sections based on the Sun movement circle,each section was defined as 36 days;"Human match the heaven with the Nine-nine section"is from the lunar cycle 29 43/81 days,which was named as 1/81 method,it was from the Thai Chu Calendar in Han Dynasty.WANG Bing's annotation of the Inner Canon of Huangdi have been widely cited since Tang Dynasty.But Wang Bing's annotation made wrong calculation on"The Six-Six section of the heaven",and ambiguity on the"human match the heaven with Nine-nine section",misguiding the futurity for more then one thousand years.This article clarify the meaning of the"six-six","nine-nine"from the perspective of ancient calendars.