Earthly branches - Definition

The Earthly Branches (Chinese: 地支; pinyin: Dìzhī) is an ancient Chinese numeral system now uncommon, except when used in conjunction with the Heavenly Stems in the traditional calendar and Taoism. There are twelve phonetic characters in the system, each corresponding to an animal of the Chinese zodiac and a respective Chinese hour (时辰; pinyin: Shíchen, modern day 2-hours):

Example Usage of branches
	FreeListDallas: Free Firewood (Plano..W Parker / Coit): Free Firewood from landscape tree that was cut down. Various size branches.... http://bit.ly/7Rsxr0
	CybrDolphin7338: My cat is using the bottom branches of the Christmas tree as a brush.
	IMAlexJenkins: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein

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Example Usage of branches