傣族历法与农历异同的由来简析

An Analysis of the Causes of the Difference Between Dai Calendar and Lunar Calendar

傣族历法是自成体系的阴阳合历， 其中的干支纪日纪年法是重要的组成部分， 并与汉族历法有渊源关系， 既保留有古汉语的读音， 又继承着称为“母子”的习惯。对其由来， 以往的一些讨论并未得到圆满的解释， 本文从迁徙史的角度提出， 傣族历法中的干支等内容， 是其先民从中原迁徙而带入今云南傣族地区。

Dai calendar is a calendar which mixed with the solar calendar and lunar calendar and forming its own system.Using the method of the Celestical Stems and the Terrestrial Branches to record days and years is an important part of Dai calendar,which have many relations with Han calendar and keep the pronounciation of ancient Chinese and succeed the custom of calling “mother”and “son”.The causes of this have not came to a pleased conclusion in some former discussions.Therefore,a new cause is derived in this paper from the migration history of the ancestor of Dai nationalities that the contents metioned above in Dai calendar were brought by their ancestors when their ancestors moved from the centre area of China to the area of Yunnan province where they are living today.