What does the 21st Maigu Festival of the first lunar month portend? How to deal with it?
The twenty-first day of the first lunar month is traditionally popular"Wheat Day", also known as:"Welcome Wheat Day"。In the past, people relied on the weather conditions on this day to ** a year's harvest, as the saying goes"Eat or not eat on the twenty-first day of the first month"How is it this year? What are the signs of sunny and rainy days?
1- The twenty-first day of the first lunar month"Drill the ground"。
Piercing the ground"The custom is the twentieth of the first month of the lunar calendar"Wear the Sky Festival"related, from the legend of Nuwa mending the sky. Legend has it that after the battle between Gonggong and Zhurong, Gonggong was defeated and angrily collided with Buzhou Mountain, causing the heaven and earth to tilt, flooding, and devastation.
So, Nuwa refined the five-colored stone to cultivate the heaven and the earth"Break the Ao to stand the four poles, kill the black dragon to support Jizhou, and accumulate ashes to stop**", thus defusing the disaster.
Nuwa is on the twentieth day of the first month"Mending the sky", this day is called"Drill the Sky Festival"；On the twenty-first day of the first month"Fill the ground", this day is called"Drill the ground"。The twenty-first day is called"Ground piercing knots"。The Song Dynasty lyricist Ge Shengzhong once wrote"Heaven wears the earth, and this day is called the earth wear festival"Phrases.
In"Cupola", people tie the pancakes together with a red thread and then throw them high, called"Make up for the sky and make a fortune"；In"Punching the ground", people use the same method to throw pancakes to the ground, called"Make a fortune by reclaiming land"。
In the past, it was also believed that both the Diamond Day and the Drill Day were sunny days better than rainy days: the Drill Day rain meant"Escape from the sky", escape money, and the rain on the burrowing festival means"Running away from the ground is unlucky"。
People also fill their warehouses with noodles, rice and grains on these two days in the hope of gaining more luck and fortune.
2- The twenty-first day of the first month of the lunar calendar"Welcome to Mai Gur"。
Legend,"Mai Gu"She was originally the goddess in heaven who was responsible for the abundant harvest of grains, but was demoted to the mortal world because of her mistakes, and became a peasant girl Maizi, who was born on the 21st day of the first month.
When Maizi was ten years old, he was banished and chased by a slave from a rich family, and he committed suicide by throwing himself into the river because he had picked ears of wheat in the rich family's field.
Unexpectedly, after the death of the wheat, the wheat harvest of the poor family was very good, but the wheat of the rich family slowly withered"Mai Gu"。
Every year on the 21st day of the first lunar month, people worship her as"maikou", praying for a bountiful harvest.
Of course, this is just folklore, and this solar term is more likely to be related to the rainy season. Around the rainy season, the wheat in the field is in the early stage of regreening, and if the wheat grows well at this time, there will be a good harvest.
As with all representative days,"Wheat grain"Anniversaries are, of course"It should be sunny rather than rainy"。A sunny day means that the wheat grows well and the harvest will be good, while a rainy day means that the wheat does not grow well and the harvest will be affected.
3 - What are the signs of sunny and rainy days?
The 21st day of the first month of this year is the first day of the first month of Bingyin. The nail is the first of the 60 nails and is the day when the atmosphere changes and changes.
The ancients believed that as the first of the six a's, the weather on the first of the six a's would have an effect on the weather for the next sixty days.
If the first day of the month is sunny, then the next two months will be mostly sunny and rarely rain; If the first day is a rainy day, it will also ** The next 60 days are basically rainy days, and there are relatively few sunny days.
People also combine Jiazi Day with the lunar calendar, as in "Jiao's Sayings"."Jiazi is a single-day male and a double-day female. Although the female nail does not hurt in the rain"。That is to say, if Jiazi encounters a weekend and is a female A, the rain will not be cloudy, and it will delay the weather of agricultural time; If it is a male armor, it is easy to be rainy.
The proverb also says:"The spring rain boat enters the market, and the summer rain is thousands of miles", talking about spring rains,"The flat ground can be navigated by boat"；It rains in the summer"The waterway is impassable, and it is a thousand miles away"。".
On the twenty-first day of the first month of this year, too"Male armor"If there is rain on that day, it will be continuous. Continuous precipitation at the beginning of spring is easy to cause continuous cooling, inhibit the natural rise of yang energy, and affect the growth of crops.
At the same time, the month of Yin begins on the day of the Green Dragon, which is the day of the child and the day of the Green Dragon. The green dragon is the wood of the East and represents the power of growth. If the green dragon day is cloudy and rainy, it means that the power of growth is limited, not only the growth of plants and trees is not smooth, but also easy to cause greater turmoil.
Therefore, the twenty-first day of the first month, that is"Land Use Day"with"Mai Gu Day", too"Blue Dragon Day"with"The head of Rokka", preferably on a sunny day.