tóng zhèng
Also rendered: Same as the upright (this site; 正 as the upright note or the upright year, and 同 as agreement) · Agreeing with the upright (smoother in a sentence; the table writes it as a bare label)
Reviewed · 2026-10-14
At a glance
The table’s way of saying that a year’s musical note is the upright one for its element, so that no separate name is needed: 太陽、太徴、太陰、戊辰、戊戌同正徴. The four kinds of it are written over twelve rows of the table, one to five times each — 同正徴一、同正宫三、同正角三、同正商五 —and the construction has one outside extension, 諸同正歲 in the passage on jueyin governing the heaven, where it marks a year in which every one of the six qi agrees with the season it enters, so that 氣化運行同天 and there is nothing for the year’s own qi to do. Both uses turn on the same idea: 同正 is agreement, and agreement is the absence of a difference worth naming.
Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.
Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.
| This site | same as the upright | a label the table hangs under a note or a year, kept short as a label |
| Literal | together upright | word for word, and it means nothing in English |
| Gloss | the year's note is the upright one for its element | what it says, and far too long to stand in a column |
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