1 1 Is it winter or twelfth month?

November of the lunar calendar is also called the winter moon.

Winter moon refers to winter. Winter is the coldest season of the year, and the others are spring, summer and autumn. Astronomically speaking, it is 65438+February to February. China used to refer to the three months from beginning of winter to beginning of spring, as well as October, November and December of the lunar calendar.

According to the China lunar calendar, the solar term from winter solstice must appear in 1 1 month. If there is an error in the operation, it should be adjusted by the setting of leap month. According to "Historical Records", "The best way for the Yellow Emperor to get a treasure tripod is to be strong in old age, to win the winter solstice, to win the discipline of heaven and to start all over again."

That is to say, the winter solstice is regarded as New Year's Day (New Year's Day) in the Yellow Emperor, not only after the Zhou Dynasty ("Ji Jia") and "Jian Zichun", but also the argument that the winter solstice is annual ("New Year's Day") has a long history. Later, the origin of the winter solstice was originally due to the annual winter solstice.

Another name for November of the lunar calendar

As the saying goes, "winter grass spits green", and in winter, grass spits green. Therefore, the November of the lunar calendar is also called "the first month". Weeds, which we now call reeds. In the Qing Dynasty, Chen Zhaoxing wrote a poem, "Jia Yue met with Shizhuang on 26th to talk about the good news of Dajia Guan Jun".

Gu Yue also refers to November in the lunar calendar. Zhang Dai wrote in the section "The Four Seasons of Astronomy Department" in Night Flight: "The three winters are called clear moon, Gu Yue and painted moon." Erya Shi Tian explicitly mentioned: "November is the koo". But why is November "ancient"? When explaining Erya, scholar He Yi explained: "Ancient is one, so it is also. I was born in the sun in November, and I want to change it and get a new one. " November is the birth month of Yiyang, which symbolizes the emergence of new things and is innovative, so it is named Gu Yue. The ancient sound "ancient" and "old" are interlinked, so November is also called "Gu Yue".

November is also called "Ziyue", which comes from twelve branches. The so-called "Zi Chou Mao Yinchen is at noon in Xu Hai, Shen You", the corresponding month is November, and the corresponding time is also eleven o'clock in the evening. As for why Confucius is not the first month, it is closely related to the ancient astronomical calendar. By analogy, we can also get the corresponding names of other months. For example, December is called "the ugly moon" and the first month is called "silver moon".