When to pay nine A few days after the winter solstice, start counting nine

On the day of the winter solstice, the count of nine begins. That is, the first day of the number nine is the winter solstice. The period from the ninth day of each nine to the first day of the next nine is the time to hand over nine.

Jiaojiu is the day of the winter solstice, generally December 21 or December 22 every year, and Jiaojiu is the shortest day of the year.

The number nine is counted from the day of the winter solstice each year, and the total amount to be passedNinety-nine eighty-one days

From the day of the winter solstice, counting back nine nine days, the weather will change from the cold solstice of the winter solstice to the warm day in the late spring. Because the process of counting nine is the process of the cold pole warming and the cold warming for a long time, people often call these nine nine eighty-one days nine miles and counting nine cold days. The first nine days of the number nine are called 19, the second nine days are called 29, and the last nine days are called 99.

There is a folk saying: count nine cold days, cold in 39, 39 refers to the third nine days after the winter solstice, that is, the nineteenth to twenty-seventh days after the winter solstice. "Yanjing Years Chronicles" said:

The winter solstice is 39 and the ice is hard. It means that from the beginning of the third nine, it has entered the coldest stage of the number nine cold days. Therefore, the stage of 3949 is the coldest in winter, and it is also close to the great cold in the 24 solar terms.

Around January 20 every year, it is a great cold, which means that the weather is extremely cold.

Contrasting with the song of ninety-nine is the widely circulated ninety-nine cold picture among Chinese folk, also known as the ninety-nine picture. There are various forms of nine-nine diagrams, including nine-grid cooling diagrams, fish-shaped cooling diagrams, spring pattern cooling diagrams, children's cooling diagrams and so on. They are both calendars for calculating time and beautiful decorations.

Therefore, during the winter solstice festival, Chinese folk still have the custom of pasting the ninety-nine cold map.

From the day of the winter solstice, China has entered the number of nine cold days. According to astronomical experts, "ninety-nine" is a kind of miscellaneous solar term that is more suitable in northern China, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. It starts from the day of the winter solstice, enters the "number nine", commonly known as "hand over nine", and then every nine days as a unit, called "nine", after nine "nine", just eighty-one days, that is, "out of nine", then the spring flowers bloom.

In ancient times, especially the Chinese working people in the northern region, the conditions for keeping warm from the cold were less simple than those of later generations, and the cold winter was also regarded as a threat and punishment, and the fear of freezing directly affected the people's mood, and even felt that the winter was inexplicably long. At that time, in order to survive the long winter, the Chinese invented the "counting nine" method to pass the time to relieve the psychological crisis under the threat of cold and winter. At that time, counting nine around the family was also regarded as a leisurely realm.

Therefore, the custom of "counting nine" is intended to spend the dull and cold winter in the mu shed, hoping to return to the earth in spring.

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Winter can start on the same day。The number nine, also known as the winter ninety-nine, is a Chinese folk method of calculating the cold days and the spring flowers blooming as scheduled, of which the three nines and forty-nine days are the coldest times of the nine days.

The number nine is counted from the winter solstice, and it is also said that from the winter solstice, every nine days is counted as nineteen, and so on. The so-called hot is in the three dogs, cold in the four nines, and the number nine is over, which means that the cold is exhausted, and the weather will be warmer at this time.

In China, the number nine is also called winter ninety-nine, which is a method for calculating the date of cold days and spring flowers. General three.

Ninety-four is the coldest time of the year. When you count to nine nine days (nine hundred and eighty-one days), it will be late and warm, and everything is full of vitality, and it is time for spring ploughing. The method of counting nine is passed down orally among the people in our country, there is a history, there is no record, as for when the origin is, there is no exact information.

In traditional culture, nine is the extreme number, the number of the yang, and the greatest number, 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 spring is deep, which means the arrival of spring.

The winter solstice is the twenty-second of the 24 solar terms in China, when the sun reaches 270° of ecliptic longitude. The "Manuscript of Compliance with the Constitution" records: the solstice of the cathode, the beginning of the yang energy, the solstice of the south of the day, the solstice of the short day, and the long solstice of the sun, so it is called the winter solstice.

On the winter solstice, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Northern Hemisphere has the shortest days and longest nights. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago, China has used Tugui to observe the sun and determine the winter solstice, which is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, and the time is from December 21 to 23 in the Gregorian calendar every year. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days get shorter the further north you go.

North of the Arctic Circle, the sun is below the horizon all day, making it the most widespread day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. For the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is also the day of the year when the sun is at its lowest at noon, and the winter solstice is not the coldest time of the year, but rather a beginning.