What is the Summer Solstice Counting Song? Analysis of the custom of avoiding rain during the Summer Solstice!

What is the Summer Solstice Counting Song? Analysis of the custom of avoiding rain during the Summer Solstice!
Introduction: The summer solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. There are nine days of cold winter, and there are also nine days of cold winter in fact. So what is the song of nine days of cold winter? Analysis of the custom of avoiding rain in the summer solstice! The fifth month of the lunar calendar is midsummer. The lotus breeze delivers fragrance, the bamboo dew drops make clear sounds, and the scenery is different from any other season. Please continue to pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo's website for more content related to the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019!

What is the Summer Solstice Counting Song?

The song of counting nine days in the summer solstice starts from the first day of the summer solstice, divides each nine days into a period, and counts forward until the ninth nine days.
The song of the summer solstice popular in the north:

On the 19th and 29th day, never let go of the fan; on the 39th and 27th day, the ice water is as sweet as honey; on the 49th and 36th day, the clothes are soaked with sweat; on the 59th and 45th day, the breeze dances above the trees; on the 69th and 54th day, don’t be too late to enjoy the cool air; on the 79th and 63rd day, cover yourself with a quilt when you sleep at night; on the 89th and 72nd day, be careful not to catch a cold; on the 99th and 81st day, every family looks for cotton-padded clothes.
The popular song about the summer solstice in the Jiangnan area:
One hundred and twenty-nine, the fan never leaves my hand; thirty-nine twenty-seven, the ice water is as sweet as honey; forty-nine thirty-six, sweating as if taking a bath; fifty-nine forty-five, dancing autumn leaves on the head; sixty-nine fifty-four, enjoying the cool in the temple; seventy-nine sixty-three, looking for a sheet when going to bed; eighty-nine seventy-two, thinking about covering myself with a quilt; ninety-nine eighty-one, every family is making a charcoal foundation.
These two songs about the summer solstice from the north and south give a vivid and figurative description of the temperature change from the summer solstice, when the weather gradually becomes hotter, then cooler and colder. They also reflect the impact of the climate characteristics from the summer solstice through the Lesser Heat, Greater Heat, Beginning of Autumn, End of Heat to White Dew on people's lives.

Analysis of the custom of avoiding rain during the summer solstice!

The custom of "avoiding rain" during the summer solstice is actually a kind of expectation for the weather.
In ancient times, farmers divided the half month of the summer solstice into the first time (the first three days), the second time (the middle five days) and the last time (the last seven days). What farmers feared most was "rain in the middle of the time" and "thunder and rain at the end of the time" (Qing Jia Lu).
These superstitious customs reflect the helpless situation of ancient farmers who "depended on the weather for their livelihood", because the thunder and rain during the summer solstice are mostly characteristic of plum rains, which do more harm than good to the growth of crops.
After the mid-month period of the summer solstice, it is the hot summer season, and crops begin to need water, so farmers hope that it will rain in time after the Dragon-Dividing Day (May 20th of the lunar calendar).
To this day, the following weather proverb is still popular in many rural areas of my country: "Twenty minutes of dragon power means twenty-first rain, and there is rice even in the cracks of the rocks."

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