What is the ninth day of the Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018? Which of the nine cold days is the coldest?

What is the ninth day of the Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018? Which of the nine cold days is the coldest?
Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. So what day is Laba Festival in 2018? Which of the nine cold days is the coldest? Want to know more about the twelfth lunar month of 2018? Please pay attention to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the twelfth month of the lunar calendar!

What is the ninth day of the Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018?

Lunar calendar time: December 8, 2018 (Lunar calendar)
Gregorian calendar time: January 13, 2019, Sunday, Capricorn (Gregorian calendar)
The nine cold days of winter are counted from the winter solstice every year. The winter solstice in 2018 is December 22, 2018. There are exactly 22 days from the winter solstice to the Laba Festival in the lunar calendar in 2018, so the Laba Festival in 2018 is the three cold days of winter.
The Nine Nines, also known as the Winter Nine Nines, is the period of the lowest temperature in the whole year. The calculation method starts from the winter solstice. Every nine days after the winter solstice is called "One Nine", and it continues until the ninth, which is called "Out of Nine". Out of Nine is near the vernal equinox, with warm climate and equal length of day and night.

Which of the nine cold days is the coldest?

In some places, the 49th day of winter is the coldest time in winter, but people generally think that the 39th day of winter is the coldest. “Yanjing Sui Shi Ji” said: “The ice becomes solid during the 39th day of winter.” This means that the 39th day of winter begins the coldest period of the nine cold days. Jing Fang Yi Zhan said: "After the winter solstice, the 30 days are extremely cold." "The third day after the winter solstice is the coldest in the twelfth lunar month."
There is a folk saying: "The coldest days of the nineteenth century are the coldest at the third nine." "Third nine" refers to the third nine days after the winter solstice, which is from the nineteenth to the twenty-seventh day after the winter solstice. The 39th and 49th days of winter are the coldest, which is also close to the Great Cold in the 24 solar terms. The Great Cold occurs around January 20th every year, which means the weather is extremely cold.
Since the nine days of "Sanjiu" are between the Lesser Cold and the Greater Cold, which is generally the coldest time of the year, it is called "the coldest in Sanjiu". In fact, in actual circumstances, the coldest time is often between the Forty-Nine and the Fifty-Nine. People also compiled different versions of the "Nine-Nine Songs" to describe the weather changes during the nine-nine days. One of the "Nine-Nine Songs" goes like this: Don't go out on the first and second nine-nine days; walk on the ice on the third and fourth nine-nine days; watch willows by the river on the fifth and sixth nine-nine days; the river thaws on the seventh nine-nine day; swallows come on the eighth nine-nine day; and on the ninth nine-nine plus the tenth nine-nine day, oxen are everywhere. However, due to the great difference in climate between the south and the north of my country, these "Nine-Nine Songs" are generally applicable to the Yellow River and Huaihe River Basin, but not very applicable to the Northeast and areas south of the Yangtze River.

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