119| 庚申太歲毛梓大將軍
1979 2039
Gengshen 1980 2040
Maozi
[20] ***TENIN
Xinyou 1981 2041
Shizheng
[35] 壬戌太歲洪充大將軍
Renxu 1982 2042
Hongchong
[36] 癸亥太歲虞程大將軍
Guihai 1983 2043
Yucheng
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Note: Taisui is in no way connected with:
Taisui Zhenren 太歲真人:
Postscript
Wu Yue Dadi
Brian Fawcett in his article on the Chinese Labour Corps in France [This issue-Ed.] refers to a modern postcard produced in Ypres for the tourist market. This portrays a Chinese labourer of the British World War 1 Chinese Labour Corps posing in the studio of a small town professional photographer. The caption within the picture, written in chalk on a small black-board in semi-literate Chinese characters, identifies him as No. 18693 Song Xiufeng and gives the date as Guomin Dingsi, that is 1917 in the Republican era. As the Republic had only just been founded six years earlier, the standard dating should have been Year Six of the Republic. However, the writer has embodied both the new era, the Republic, with the old Sexagenary characters which would, if he had thought about it, caused complications at the end of the sixty years cycle as the Republic was intended to last much longer than that!
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Taisui was listed in 17th century Qing dynasty regulations to receive official worship as a second-rank deity.
Taisui literally means The Great Year, the Jupiter Year, the twelve-year sidereal period which the planet takes to travel around the Sun.