Poor Sleep Floods the Trending Searches: When the Ancients Slept in the Twelve Double-Hours
Over the past 24 hours US trending searches were dominated by sleep, while what charted at the same time in Korea was "walking." This article uses the twelve double-hours and the meridian clock to set out the timetable the ancients laid over the day, and just what the Lingshu · Kouwen line "when yang qi is exhausted and yin qi is full, the eyes close" really says, with a note on the folk customs of setting up a bed in the bedroom.