How about counting to nine on the winter solstice?

Winter solstice, also known as winter festival, dragon solstice festival, happy winter festival, Asian New Year and so on. Because from this da

How about counting to nine on the winter solstice?

Winter solstice, also known as winter festival, dragon solstice festival, happy winter festival, Asian New Year and so on. Because from this day on, the days are getting longer and longer. "The winter solstice is long at the beginning of the next day, and Luo Yang is far away in Jiannan"-The Aftersolstice by Du Fu of Tang Dynasty, so it is an important festival after the Spring Festival. So what are the stories about "counting nine"? Let me give you a brief introduction.

On the ancient Winter Solstice Day, hundreds of officials greet each other, auspicious clothes are on holiday, red notes worship each other, and all walks of life stop working, entertain each other and give each other gifts. Therefore, there is a folk saying that the solstice in winter is as big as a year.

Why count to nine?

One of the customs is to count to nine from today.

When the custom of counting nine originated, there is no exact written record, but it became popular at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In the Chronicle of Jingchu written by Liang Chaozong, it is said that "the number of winter solstice days is 998 1 day", that is to say, from the date of winter solstice, it takes 998 1 genius to count beginning of spring.

What is the "99 Cold Map"

In addition, in order to eliminate the loneliness and cold in this long time, the ancients gradually evolved a "99 Cold Relief Map" to calculate this 8 1 day daily and express a warm heart to welcome the Spring Festival.

According to legend, Wen Tianxiang, a patriot of the Southern Song Dynasty, was brought to Beijing by the Yuan Army. This is the winter solstice. Facing the test of the cold winter wind in prison, he painted a red plum with nine branches and nine buds on the prison wall with the fearless spirit of "life never dies since ancient times". Every day, a bud turns into a flower, and 998 1 flower is painted in 981day, which not only counts the time of being imprisoned, but also expresses it.

In order to commemorate this epic national hero, according to Wen Tianxiang's interest, later generations gradually evolved different versions of the map for removing cold.

Different colors and different cooling pictures

There are three main characters in "99 Cold Topographic Map", the circle and the plum blossom.

What form each piece of furniture takes often depends on the owner's hobbies and cultural literacy.

Draw a sketch:

Draw nine vertical and horizontal grids and draw a circle in the middle of each grid, which is called drawing copper coins. * * * Eighty-one yuan, draw one yuan every day. The painting method is "cloudy and sunny, left wind and right rain and snow", and the folk song says: "In cloudy and sunny snow, you should distinguish between left wind and right rain, and the spring grass is green."

The Map of Cold in 1999 in the period of Puyi's small imperial court was also made into a nine-square grid, with nine circles in each grid and eighty-one circles in * * *, and a circle was drawn every day, reflecting the daily weather situation in winter in 1999 through the records of yin and yang fish.

The painting method of this painting is: the upper surface is sunny, the lower surface is cloudy, and the left wind is in the middle of the right rain and snow point. According to textual research, this is consistent with the popular formula of "nine-point map".

Yin and yang fish are made up of black and white. The black part has a supercilious look, and the white part has a black eye, which looks like a fish, hence the name Yin-Yang fish.

There is white in black and black in white, which fully embodies the infinite changes of yin, yang and yin, and realizes the perfect organic combination of content and form. Therefore, it is very philosophical to use the pattern of yin and yang fish to draw a picture of eliminating cold.

Make an elegant picture:

Draw a plum blossom with 8/kloc-0 petals, and dye one petal every day. When all the flowers are dyed, it will all be over and spring will come.

The book "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" says: "On the 9th, draw a plum blossom, one in eighty petals. Dye one petal a day, the petals are exhausted, and the spring scenery is deep. Cold map in September. "

The painting method of this painting is: the upper surface is sunny, the lower surface is cloudy, and the left wind is in the middle of the right rain and snow point. According to textual research, this is consistent with the popular formula of "nine-point map".

Yin and yang fish are made up of black and white. The black part has a supercilious look, and the white part has a black eye, which looks like a fish, hence the name Yin-Yang fish.

There is white in black and black in white, which fully embodies the infinite changes of yin, yang and yin, and realizes the perfect organic combination of content and form. Therefore, it is very philosophical to use the pattern of yin and yang fish to point out the picture of eliminating cold.

Make an elegant picture:

Draw a plum blossom with 8/kloc-0 petals, and dye one petal every day. When all the flowers are dyed, it will all be over and spring will come.

The book "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jing" says: "On the 9th, draw a plum blossom, one in eighty petals. Dye one petal a day, the petals are exhausted, and the spring scenery is deep. Cold map in September. "

Makeup dyed plums

What's more, in the old days, women dyed plums with light makeup.

In the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yunfu recited this custom in "One Hundred Poems of Luanjing Miscellaneous Poems", and he noted from the cloud: "After the winter solstice, a plum blossom will be stuck in the window, and the beauty will make up. Rouge will make a circle every day, 8 1 circle is enough, and it will become apricot flowers and warm. "

This design, from plums to apricots, from winter to spring, connects the change of seasons with the rouge made by beautiful women, which is really amazing.

Fill in a poem

Zhen Wu in Qing Dynasty recorded in Shou Ji Zhai Ji: "In the early years of Daoguang, the imperial system used the words" weeping willows in front of the pavilion and cherishing the spring breeze "for nine strokes. The double hook in the Maoqin Hall is titled' Spring in Guancheng'.

Every year before the winter solstice, a map to eliminate the cold will be hung indoors. At that time, the landlord will fill in the outline from the first day of September, with nine strokes per word and one stroke per day. After each word is filled in, it is19,9981day to complete the sentence.

But later, the content was more detailed, such as a picture of "white phoenix sending incense to the room in spring" On the ink pen, the weather of the day was filled in with a fine white pen.

In the above picture, Chunzi's third stroke is "The cool wind invades the panel like a knife all day", and other strokes also include "It's cold in the morning to the afternoon", "It's cool to worship the stove, honeydew melons enter the market" and "It's cold in the afternoon, and it's dusty".

When a "cold-dispelling map" is completed, it becomes a record of the weather in winter 2008. "Every year, it becomes a story."

Significance of "Topographic Map of Cold Region in 1999"

From the appearance of folk songs, painting and writing about 99, to various "99-year-old pictures" prevailing in the court; From the south to the north, the custom of counting nine has a long history, mainly for three reasons:

I. Agricultural demand

In ancient times, limited by the development of science and technology, there was no professional meteorological service. Therefore, people recorded the changes of overcast, sunny, rain, snow and various astronomical phenomena in the winter of 1999, which was used to print proverbs and predict the prosperity and regret in the coming year.

Second, entertaining.

Through the enlightenment education of children's literacy, writing, historical knowledge and natural common sense.

It is said that in the old days, a primary school teacher asked his students to compile a "topographic map of cold areas in 1999".

The specific scheme is: students first look up the dictionary to find out a large number of "nine strokes", then make up a "nine-sentence", which is revised by the teacher to make a red pen and hollow character map, and finally evaluate the advantages and disadvantages.

This entertaining form stimulates students' interest in learning, so they try their best to do it; But it's easy to think of, but difficult to put together. A student added, "I look forward to seeing a beautiful willow dye in spring." The teacher admired him very much. He said that he knew that "A" was the archaic form of "Mei".

Third, entertainment.

Painting nine and writing nine is really an elegant word game. In ancient times, when cultural and entertainment life was relatively poor, painting nine pictures and writing nine pictures was similar to solve riddles on the lanterns, drinking wine and couplets, which naturally became an elegant entertainment for literati and wealthy families.

Nowadays, with professional weather forecast, people no longer need to record the weather and predict the coming year; At the same time, people's entertainment life is getting richer and richer, but their interest in the folk custom "Cold Map in 1999" is far from enough. It is for these reasons that the custom of counting nine gradually declined.

Nevertheless, that "99-99 map for dispel cold" is still a good folk custom and cultural heritage.