As the saying goes, "Only when people get together in the winter of solstice can they count to nine". What does this count to nine mean?

Count to nine? Also known as Winter 99, it is a folk solar term in China. The number 9 starts at the end of the solstice in the early winter of the Gregorian calendar 65438+ every year. There is no exact information about when the custom of counting nine originated. However, it was popular at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Emperor Liang Zongdi wrote:? It is customary to use the number of winter solstice days and 998 1 day as the end of cold. ?

Count nine cold days, that is, every nine days from the solstice of winter? Nine? , continue counting? Jiujiu? Eighty-one days Nine peach blossoms? The weather will get warmer. * * * Eighty-one days is a cold period in a year. Actually, yes? 1999 and 1999, the cattle walked for 90 days, which is 9 days. ? Count to nine? From the end of 65438+February in Gregorian calendar every year? Winter solstice? From the next day. ? Count to nine? There are many customs, so? Jiujiu song? The widest and longest. In other words, it is not 1929. Three, nine, four, nine, walking on the ice. Look at the willows by the river. Seven or nine rivers open and eight or nine swallows come. 99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere. ?

There are also Dunhuang documents "Ninety-nine Poems":

19, leaves wither, geese fly south;

Twenty-nine, the clothes are cold, the night birds are high, and the carp swim into the deep pool;

39. The north wind is cold, the wasteland is frozen, and the water surface is frozen like an ice bridge;

49. The stars set in the middle of the night and rise in the morning;

59, the white is getting longer and longer, and the sun can still shine into the room after the sun comes out;

Sixty-nine, the spring breeze blows, the grass sprouts, and you can go out alone;

Seventy-nine, the Yellow River is half ice water, carp swim on the beach, magpies build nests, and geese return;

Eighty-nine, vegetation growth, sunshine everywhere, is the time to deeply plant grains;

1999, it was a happy time for farmers to sow and plant jade seedlings.

What folk proverbs are there in China? Head nine warm, nine cold? It is found that if it is warm in the first nine days, it will be particularly cold all winter. So what? The first is not greed, continuous rain and snow to winter disability? . "Yanjing Age" said:? On the 39th of the winter solstice, the ice is hard. ? It means that it has entered the coldest stage in cold weather since March 9. "Jing Fang Yizhan" said: On the solstice after winter, it was extremely cold on the 30th. ? ,? The third day after beginning of winter is the coldest day in December from solstice. ? Later, people generally thought that March 9 was the coldest day, but in fact, April 9 was the coldest time in winter. It was only a few days before March 9 that the temperature changed greatly, and suddenly it became cold, so the body did not adapt, so it was particularly cold. On April 9, although the temperature was lower than that on March 9, the temperature difference changed little, and it didn't feel as cold as when it entered March 9 from February 9. Since the winter solstice, 349 is just near the great cold in the twenty-four solar terms.

Therefore, the number nine is counted from the winter of solstice, once every nine days? Nineteen? , to? Jiujiu? Up to now, * * * eighty-one days is the cold period of the year. Moreover, in the traditional culture of China, nine is the extreme number, which is the largest, largest and longest concept. 99 is 81. The biggest but? The number of. People in ancient China believed that after the solstice on September 8 1 day, spring must have arrived. ?