What does the agricultural custom "two dragons control water, eleven oxen plow the fields, and six people share the bread" mean?

As we all know, rural proverbs are the experience that the older generation summed up from the common sense of daily life. China has been a farming society since ancient times, and farmers depend on the sky for food. But at that time, due to the limitation of knowledge and technology, unlike the current weather forecast, they often entrusted gifts to God in order to better harvest food crops. What does the old farmer mean when he says,' Two dragons control water, eleven oxen plow the fields, and six people share bread'?

As we know, in order to calculate the date, the ancients invented the heavenly stems and earthly branches method. heavenly stems and earthly branches is divided into ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches, and the twelve earthly branches are the zodiac signs, corresponding to twelve hours. These chronologies can still be seen in some old yellow calendars. It will be 60 years before heavenly stems and earthly branches can set a specific date. The chronology method counts dates from the first month.

The words' two',' eleven' and' six' in this proverb are the dates when the earthly branches first appeared in the first month. The zodiac dragon corresponds to Chen, and the first few days of the first month are several dragons. The legend of the dragon is a beast that calls the wind and rain. People often hope that dragons can bring good weather. The ugliness of the zodiac corresponds to cows, which means that the ugliness that appears on the first day of the first month is a few cows. Cattle are good friends of farmers in farming society, and cattle are a part of families in farming society; Cakes correspond to the day when C appears in the first month. Because of homophonic, people with more cakes will not starve to death.

What is the meaning of the sentence "two dragons control water, eleven oxen plow the fields, and six people share the bread"? Let's take a look at the old almanac, and everyone will know that February 13, the second day of the first month, is a non-Chen day; February 17, the sixth day of the first month, is Bing Shen Day; February 22, the eleventh day of the first month, Xin Chou Day; It can be seen that the first day of the first month is the second day, so two dragons; The first appearance of Ugly in the first month is eleven, so there are eleven cows, and the first appearance of C in the first month is the sixth day, so six people share the cake.

This proverb mainly means that farmers hope that God will have good weather and help them have plenty of food and clothing. But now that science and technology are developed, artificial rainfall has also been said. It doesn't make sense now, but it still makes sense to ancient people.