Does the winter solstice start at nine o'clock?

See the question "Does the solstice in winter mean the beginning of nine-day counting?" I can't help thinking of a famous lyric: It's freezing cold, it's snowing heavily, although the weather is cold, my heart is warm (the lyric in the opera Liu Hulan).

This lyric points out the characteristics of "counting nine", that is, "it's cold" and "it's cold", which is what the idiom says-"it's cold for nine days" and "it's cold for three or nine days". The number nine here actually refers to the coldest season in a year after the winter solstice.

Indeed, as this friend pointed out in his question, the "number nine" is indeed calculated from the "winter solstice". Since that day, China has entered the cold weather of number nine.

? "99", also known as "99 in winter", is a folk solar term in China. "Count nine" starts from the winter solstice (65438+February, 2 1 or 22) every year, and every nine days is a unit, that is, every nine days is counted as "nine" until it is counted as "99" 81day. "Nine peach blossoms bloom", count to nine, the weather will be warm, and spring will begin.

Once you enter the number 9, the weather record will become very cold. "Count nine" has therefore become synonymous with "cold", which means that when it comes to "count nine", people can't help but feel cold.

In fact, "winter solstice" means that winter is over and at its peak. Here "to" does not mean "to", but refers to "pole" and "vertex". Since the winter solstice, the sun has gradually moved northward, and we are getting closer and closer to the sun in the northern hemisphere. The days are getting longer and the nights are getting shorter and shorter. Because there is still a long "transition zone", we can really get out of the cold and enter the spring. So the number nine starts from September 19, and with the increase of the number nine, the weather gets warmer gradually.

People have summed up a lot of experiences about the constant change of the number nine, and recorded them in a popular and easy-to-remember form, which has been continuously circulated and has become an enduring "Nine Nine Songs". Here are two widely influential "Jiujiu Songs"-

If you don't do this in 1929,

Walking on the ice in 3949,

Looking at the willows by the river,

79 rivers opened and 89 geese came.

99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere.

1929, I can't reach out.

3949, frozen cats and dogs.

Look at the willows across the river.

Seven or nine rivers open and eight or nine geese come.

1999 It's freezing in cold weather and warm in spring in bloom.

China has a vast territory, and the cold between the north and the south is very different, so the Jiujiu songs spread all over the country are not the same. For example, 1929 doesn't do it in North China, 1929 walks on the ling in Northeast China, 1929 washes his hands in the river in Shaanxi, and 1929 doesn't do it in Shandong Jiaodong.

The "winter solstice" of 202 1 is coming (65438+February 2 1), and the "number nine" of 202 1 is about to begin. Let's all get ready for winter!

But there is nothing to be afraid of. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?