The traditional culture is broad and profound, and the ancestors have summed up a lot of valuable experience in thousands of years of life. These experiences are full of wisdom, especially the summary and prediction of nature, and it is one of the most practical experiences handed down from ancestors.
In ancient times, it was an agrarian society, and people could only get a good harvest if they grasped the sky well. Therefore, only by relying on their own predictions and summaries of nature can the ancestors arrange agricultural production in an orderly manner. The twenty-four solar terms are the summation and observation of the heavenly time by the ancestors, and people guide farming according to the solar terms, which has been the case for thousands of years.
And the winter solstice we are about to usher in is one of the most important of the twenty-four solar terms. The reason why the winter solstice is important is because, on the one hand, the ancient pre-Qin calendar set the winter solstice as the beginning of the year; on the other hand, it is because the winter solstice is an important node in the transformation of yin and yang in the year.
Therefore, the winter solstice not only plays a role in guiding agricultural time, but also in terms of culture.
Because the winter solstice is an important festival, and even developed into an important festival, although the festival customs of the winter solstice day have been diluted today, there are still many folk sayings about the winter solstice.
For example, "winter solstice without rain and winter sunny", "winter solstice black, New Year thinning; winter solstice sparse, New Year black", "winter solstice before ploughing gold, winter solstice after ploughing iron", "winter solstice sunny day, Spring Festival rain and snow" and so on.
These sayings are often a summary of the experience of the ancestors. There is also a folk saying, that is, "the winter solstice is not cold." It is said that between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, it is the coldest period of the year, and it is also the turning point from cold to warm.
Since the ancient society was an agrarian society, in the winter, people would have nothing to do. Therefore, in order to consume the dull and cold winter, but also to look forward to the return of spring to the earth, so people have observed and summarized, from the day of the winter solstice, began to "count nine".
Based on daily experience, the old ancestor also summarized and summarized a set of "nine songs" to record climate change after the winter solstice.
The old ancestor said that "the winter solstice is not cold", in fact, the folk believe that after the winter begins, only the days after the winter solstice are the coldest. Moreover, there is also a folk saying that "heat is in three volts, cold is in three nines", so is it the coldest time when it is three or nine?
There is a sentence in the folk song of counting nine, "1929 does not shoot, 3949 walks on the ice, 5969 looks at the willow along the river..." This sentence says that 1929 is too cold to shoot, and when the river surface has formed a thick layer of ice at 3949, by 5969, the weather will begin to warm up, and you can already go along the river to see the willow trees
There is still some truth to the old ancestor's saying.
Before the winter solstice, or even a few days after the winter solstice, it is not the coldest time. Because of the atmosphere and moisture on the surface, it is enough to store some heat. However, after the winter solstice, some heat will be lost every day in 1929, especially in about three or nine days, and the daily calories will not be enough. Coupled with the invasion of cold air, the weather will be even colder.
Therefore, the old ancestors will have the saying that "the winter solstice is not cold", and "cold in the three nines" and so on.
It can be seen from this that the wisdom of the folk ancestors is actually not worse than our modern people, and even stronger than us in some aspects! Of course, due to the vast territory of our country, the climate differences between different places will be very large, and the experience of "winter solstice is not cold" is only applicable to some regions.