How should we count the nine-day winter solstice? Is the nine-day winter solstice a folk solar term?
When the winter solstice arrives, the weather becomes cold and the year is about to pass. But there is a folk saying: After counting the nine nines from the winter solstice, spring will come and flowers will bloom. How should we count the nine-day winter solstice? Is the nine-day winter solstice a folk solar term? It is November of the lunar calendar in 2019, and winter is approaching. If you want to know more about the exciting content of November 2019 in the lunar calendar, please visit Mr. Shui Mo’s website!How should we count the nine cold days during the winter solstice?——Regarding the nine cold days of winter solstice, it is a summary of people’s experience with the climate over the years.》What is the Nine Cold Days of Winter Solstice? People call the winter solstice "Jiaojiu" or "Shujiu", that is, starting from the winter solstice, every nine days is a "nine", a total of 9 "nines", a total of 81 days, after 81 days it becomes spring. 》Rhyme for the Winter Solstice: On the 19th and 29th days, don't go out; on the 39th and 49th days, walk on the ice; on the 59th and 69th days, look at the willows along the river; on the 79th day, the river opens; on the 89th day, wild geese come; on the 99th plus 19th day, oxen walk everywhere. 》Ways to count the nine cold days during the winter solstice: It starts from the day of the winter solstice when the moon is in the lunar calendar, and enters the "Nine Days", commonly known as "Jiao Jiu". After that, every nine days is a unit, called "Jiu". After nine "Nine", it is exactly eighty-one days, which is called "Chu Jiu". At that time, spring will come and flowers will bloom. Is the Nine-Nine Days of Winter a folk solar term?——The Nine-Nine Days, also known as the Winter Nine, is a Chinese folk solar term.The Nine Cold Days begins from the beginning of winter in late December of the Gregorian calendar every year. There is no exact information on when the custom of nine-day cold weather originated. However, it was already popular at least during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. 》 In the Jingchu Sui Shi Ji by Zong Yan of the Liang Dynasty, it was written: "The common people use the number of days from the winter solstice and the eighty-first day to represent the end of the cold." The nine cold days start from the day of the winter solstice, and every nine days is counted as one "nine", until the eighty-first day, when "the peach blossoms bloom" at the end of the nine days, and the weather becomes warm. In fact, it is "Ninety-nine days and nineteen more, with oxen walking everywhere" - a full 90 days, counting the days in a row. 》In traditional Chinese culture, nine is the extreme number, which represents the largest, most numerous, and longest-lasting concept. Nine nines, or eighty-one, is the biggest number. The ancient Chinese people believed that after 9981 days after the winter solstice, spring would definitely have arrived. ——Gu Lu’s “Nine Days Song” in “Qing Jia Lu”: 《1》1929, I called him but he didn’t reach out (his hands were tucked into his robe because he was afraid of the cold) 《2》3927, Blowing the Pipe on the Fence - (The cold wind blows on the fence, like blowing the Pipe. Pipe: bìlì is also written as 觱栗, an ancient wind instrument in the Han Dynasty, shaped like a trumpet, with a reed mouthpiece and a bamboo tube.) 《3》4936, Sleeping at night is like sleeping in the wild)——(Sleeping in bed is like sleeping in the wild) "4" Fifty-nine forty-five, a poor man dances on the street. Don't dance, don't dance, there is still a chill in the spring - (Poor people wear thin clothes, dance to keep warm) 《5》Sixty-nine fifty-four, flies are everywhere in the thatch——(revealing a little warmth) 《6》Seventy-nine sixty-three, cloth sleeves spread across shoulders——(The weather is warm, thick clothes can be put on the shoulders) "7" Eighty-nine Seventy-two, cats and dogs lie on the cold ground "8" Ninety-nine Eighty-one, the poor man has finished his punishment and is about to stretch his legs to sleep, when mosquitoes and fleas appear |
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