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Allusions of five winds and ten rains

Allusions of five winds and ten rains:

From Wang Hanchong's On Balance and Response: "The wind doesn't ring, the rain doesn't break, the wind blows for five days, and it rains for ten days." The explanation is that the wind is too soft, the branches can't make a sound, and the rain won't destroy the clods. It blows once every five days and rains once every ten days. Later, it was written in the word "five winds and ten rains" to describe the good weather.

Literally, "five winds and ten rains" means windy and rainy, and the weather is very bad. Just like the recent weather, there are twelve days of rain in fifteen days. Of course it's not what we think.

The actual meaning of "five winds and ten rains" should be that the wind blows once every five days and it rains once every ten days, which means that the weather is favorable.