What day is 2.26?

If you mean February 26 of the New Calendar is the last day of the Fourth Ninth Festival. February 26th of the lunar calendar is the first day after the birth of nine, which means that it is no longer within the scope of several nines. A prank? ;)

We start counting nine on the day of the winter solstice. This is what people call "counting nine in advance of winter". Counting nine days is one nine, counting nine more days is twenty-nine... Counting to "nine-nine" means that "nine" is exhausted, and "nine-nine" is the end of the poplar blossoms, and then the weather will be warm.

Our country's lunar calendar divides the eighty-one days after the winter solstice into nine periods, each period of nine days, called "winter ninety-nine" or "cold ninety-nine". The winter solstice is called "Jinjiu", and the 81st day is called "Chujiu". Whenever "Jiu" comes, the weather starts to get cold. Folks call these eighty-one days "Cold Nine" or "Jiu Li Tian", which gives rise to the customs of counting nine, drawing nine, singing nine and writing nine.

Counting nine refers not only to the calculation of nineteen to nine, but also to the general term for the entire cold nine days, counting from the day of "entering nine" to counting to "out of nine". For example, when it reaches a certain day of "March 9th", it means "Today is the day of March 9th", and the rest are counted in the same way.

Drawing nine means counting nine using pictures. The earliest and most popular method of painting nine is: "On the winter solstice, draw a plain plum branch with eighty-one petals. Dye one petal every day, and when the petals are gone and nine-nine comes out, spring is deep. It is called the nine-nine picture to relieve the cold." The color of the petals is mostly red, and on the day of "Chu Jiu", the plum blossoms will turn into red plums.

Gejiu refers to the period of singing Jiujiu with ballads, which is called "Han Jiujiu Song". The lyrics vary from long to short, and are not exactly the same in different regions, but the content can cleverly use certain ecological changes or climate signs in nature to reflect the changing patterns of climate in winter. The most popular song "Han Jiujiu Song" is sung in the Central Plains. Its lyrics go: "One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine does not take action, three ninety-nine and ninety-nine walk on the ice. Five nine and sixty-nine, look at the willows along the river. Seventy-nine ice Open, eight or nine wild geese are coming. Nine or nine plus one or nine, the plow oxen are moving all over the place. "

Write nine, that is, use the writing method to count nine. The founder of this method was Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty. The emperor personally wrote the phrase "Weeping willows in front of the pavilion, cherish the spring breeze". Each word was made into nine paintings, and he had people make a huge double-hook painting. Starting from the "Jinjiu" day, he would fill in one painting with a red pen every day. The content is the weather conditions of the day. When all nine words are filled in, it will become a record of climate changes in the entire nine cold days.