A traditional Japanese calendar has 72 micro seasons in a year

A traditional Japanese calendar has 72 micro seasons in a year

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day day day. Do do
do do do do do do Do Do do do
do do.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Do do do do do do do do do do do.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Dude do do. It's calendar week here Atkay and thanks
to the overwhelmings to port I received every night after
my two rocketed, Moron co hosts couldn't quite comprehend too
much information at once about where the months got their name.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think the feedback was that it was overwhelming.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
There was a lot to take in valn We we
understood it.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I understood it, but it just it went on, It
just went on and on. Last twelve months, I lost in.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Imagine I didn't all the months. We'll focus on just
one month at a time.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
There would be months.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Being that you could have handled twelve months. And where
they got the name from. You're gonna love today's Fact
of the day of the traditional Japanese calendar with seventy
two micro seasons.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh my god, should we pop out seventy two?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
As long as we don't end up going through all
seventy two, I'll be happy.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Oh we will. Number one. So there's twenty four categories
and each of them have three or four underneath them.
But it's all to do with the agriculture of Japan, right,
So they were, for example, what's the day today? It
is June. Let's stroll down to June and it is
June eleventh, or we're at the start of one. Rotten
grass becomes fireflies? Is today's micro season in Japan?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
What rotten grass becomes five?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
What's the next season? The next one starts on the
sixteenth of Jern. Plumps turn yellow. Then we move into
the summer solstice, which is the next group. Yeah, and
your June twenty third, your birthday, south heel withers as
your micro season. Okay, can I have mine? Yeap? What's
your day again? October eighth? Yeah, October eighth, Oh, wild

(01:54):
geese return the world.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Geese returns at the beginning of the some crazy old
man riding in his calendar.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's the cold yellow Yeah. It was basically a gardening calendar.
February iwe eighth, February twentieth, rain moistens the soil. That's
quite fast.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
With climate change. This Japanese calendar out the window has changed,
they said, it definitely has changed.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, we're gonna have to reword it. Get another old
man to come up with some ones. Nice caps melting.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, non seasonal tropical cyclone destroys seaside fishing village.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Was eighteen degrees in Auckland this morning. That's sort of
eleventh of June.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Give me a random Give me a random date, and
I'll tell you what was happening.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Fifth of July.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Fifth of July is the crow dipp of sprouts? What
just after the iris?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I supposed to remember all that.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're going to have to bring this factor the day
back tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Ns Bly, what do we need to bring it back tomorrow?
I'm telling you that there's just like it's like it
was an officially recognized calendar, Yeah, for traditional ancient Japan.
By the way, have you watch Showgun yet? No? He's
saving that up or you're not interested, I don't know
what You're going to go back and finish it? The
Showgun series on Disney Plus, and Aaron was watching. I
talk about it after the first two episodes, and I said,

(03:15):
what I'm going to do is going to bank them
up and just smash him out as quickly as I can.
Said behind my back, well, we've got to talk about
something after six that's hot. We talking about PlayStation games
and Disney Plus shows.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
We like when you cud off. Yeah, can you do
Christmas Day? We had a request Christmas.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Day, Christmas Day, South Hill sprouts. Oh my god, it's
Christmas Day.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Self healing.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
December to just after the is when the deer's shipped antlers.
What about January? The first January the first wheat sprouts
under snow, because of course it's there sprout based. Yeah,
there's a lot of sprouts. Well, things sprout, Okay, Well
spring four can start laying eggs January thirty to Feb three,
that's your starts laying eggs week. Yeah, we can totally

(04:03):
be done unto a little bit anutritional Japanese calendar, you know,
you know.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
The that was the only message we had about it.
I think everyone else might have just popped off stations.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, we're now just.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Glender week. I'll be honest.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
October eighth, best staying. That's from Carolyn May.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think the Firth frog starts singing, this is your
weakest fact of the day week we've either hand. So
it's interesting, it's fascinating. We just take a calendar for
grind and it's just there every day. What day is it? Journal.
Even what day of the week is it? Tuesday?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Some like sixty firemen facts. If we're talking about calendar.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
In week, we'll take a week off.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Hailey can do fine a week.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, not just the fire men, Dalmatians. You can do affectations.
Many a peasant has thought they could wear a crown
better than the king until the hefty weight or crown.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Has placed the polyad, Brussels sprouts and the snow.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, all right, it's sinking out, it's thinking out. We're
gonna sun. Some Japanese traditional calendar, so today's back to
the day day as there is, as all folks. The
traditional Japanese agricultural calendar has seven in two micro seasons,