The number nine, also known as winter ninety-nine, is a method of calculating the date of cold weather and spring flowers in Chinese folk. General "three.
"Nine, Forty-Nine" is the coldest time of the year. When you count to nine "nine days" (nine hundred and eighty-one days), it is time for spring ploughing.
So what day does the counting of nine days begin?Folk proverbs: "The summer solstice is three Geng, and the winter solstice is nine." In ancient times, the number nine was counted from the first day after the 22nd solar term "winter solstice" in the 22nd solar term, and the first day after the winter solstice was called "Jiaojiu", which means the beginning of the cold. But basically every year, the winter solstice is a day. Therefore, the method of counting nine is used in Chinese folk to start counting the winter solstice day and nine nine eighty-one days, which is the end of the cold.
There has always been a folk saying that the number nine songs correspond to the gradually warming weather.
1929 does not shoot, 3949 walks on the ice, 5969 looks at the willows, 79 rivers open, ** geese come, 99 plus 19, ploughing cattle everywhere.
In traditional culture, nine is the extreme number, the number of "to the yang", and the number of the maximum, the accumulation of "the number of the yang" means that the yin is decreasing day by day, and the accumulation of nine times has come to the end, which means that the cold is warm, and the peach blossoms are blooming.
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