As we all know, the 39th day is the coldest time that people feel. It is easier to calculate in the three or nine days. On the Winter Solstice Festival every year, you start to enter the "Nine" number. After that, as long as you become familiar with the traditional Chinese solar terms, you will know the timetable for the cold and summer. This is: "1929, interfering in your arms; 3949, frozen pigs and dogs; 5969, looking at willows along the river; 7963, pedestrians putting their clothes on; 9981, old man plowing the fields is standing in the middle of the fields." This means that since the earth has accumulated hot and cold energy at the front end, there are still 40 days of coldest weather after the winter solstice; 18 days after the winter solstice, stiff hands and feet; 18 days after the winter solstice, the 18 days after the winter solstice are the coldest period of the year, which can freeze pigs and dogs to death; once the 18 days after the winter solstice enters the 18 days after the winter solstice, the willow trees along the river sprout and the climate becomes warmer; 54 days after the winter solstice, people have to take off their winter clothes; 70 days after the winter solstice, they have to prepare for spring plowing, and the weather is completely warm.
So, when is the number nine? WeThe 2013 winter solstice, you can calculate it and know when it will be the ninth. Whether you know it or not, I know it anyway.
"Three Nine" refers to the third "nine days" after the winter solstice, that is, the 19th to the 27th day after the winter solstice. There is a saying in the lunar calendar in my country that is used to calculate the season. The calculation method is to calculate from the winter solstice in winter (it is called "Jiaojiu" from the beginning of the winter solstice, which means the beginning of coldness). Every nine days is one "nine", the first nine days is called "one nine", the second nine days is called "two nine", and so on, until the ninth nine nine days, the number is over 81 days. By this time winter has passed and spring has arrived.
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It is generally the coldest during the "Three Ninth Festival". The friend above mentioned "the third ninth day after the winter solstice" refers to "three nine nine", which is also the day when the "three nine" and "four nine" intersect, not "three nine".
The custom of old Beijing is to draw the "Nine Nine-Nine Cold Picture" from the winter solstice. This custom has been recorded in the works of the Ming people. This picture is a picture of plum blossoms, drawing a branch of plum blossoms. There are 81 flower shops on it (representing 9981 days). Every day I dye a flower with a pen. After these 81 days, all 81 flower shops have been dyed. Spring has arrived, so it is called "Nine Nine Cold Relieving Picture". Moreover, in Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, there was also a printed "Nine Nine Elimination Cold Picture" that was sold on the market, which was even more convenient, and there was also "Nine Nine Song" next to this picture.
This is the saying of "nine nine". It was found in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At that time, the cold days were over from the winter solstice to the 9981 day. And this (Jiujiu Song) probably originated in the Song Dynasty. It was very popular in the Ming Dynasty, but when "Jiujiu Song" was popular among the people, there were different versions, and the content and details were different. It is very interesting to look at the different statements of "Nine and Nine Songs" in the Ming Dynasty.