Numbers in Chinese culture are often given a special meaning, especially for the number "nine". The reason is that "nine" is the highest number of yangs, which produces a certain reverence and worship. In the "Explanation of Words", it is said: "Nine, the change of yang is also." Like its bending shape. ”
In the four seasons of the year, in addition to this twenty-four solar terms that run through the whole year, there are many customs such as entering the ambush and entering the ninth. Chinese has always attached importance to the order of the festivals, in addition to being related to agricultural affairs, there are also cherishing and expectations for the years and times, which has derived from the life culture of "summer and cold". The length of the schedule for the three-volt day is not fixed, and the nine cold days are fixed for eighty-one days. People count nines from the winter solstice onwards, one nine every nine days, all the way to nine nines, and after eighty-one days, the cold spring returns.
Ancient cold and warm conditions are limited, and the cold and cold frost can not help but have a sense of fear, and even inexplicably feel that the winter is too long, so they invented the number nine methods to entertain to alleviate the discomfort that occurs when the cold winter comes. Speaking of essence, the cold and frozen sky cannot be changed, mainly the way of psychological transformation, of which the most popular in the world is the "Nine-Nine Cold Elimination Map", which has three kinds of words, plum blossoms and circles.
The "cold map" did not appear for a particularly long time. This kind of pastime with words and ink to entertain the time first appeared in the imperial palace, and then indiscriminately visited the people. Xu Ke's "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" says: "Xuanzong's imperial words, there is a sentence 'Weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring wind', each sentence has nine words, nine paintings of words, and then double hooks, decoration into a frame, the day nine nine cold map ... From the beginning of the winter solstice, the day is filled in one by one, and every eighty-one days are completed. ”
The nine characters selected in the "Cold Suppression Chart" are nine strokes in each word, which corresponds to the number of nine nines, corresponding to the eighty-one days from "one nine" to "nine nine". Originally handwritten by the Daoguang Emperor, the staff of the Maoqin Palace double-checked orthography, and then framed into a paper screen and hung, with the inscription "Guancheng Chunman". "Guancheng" is a synonym for the brush, which means that the pen is full of spring. To this day, on the wall of the Yangxin Hall of the Forbidden City, the original "Nine-Nine Cold Removal Map" is still hung.
Later, there was a version of "Spring Forecourt Cypress Wind Sending Fragrant Room", and there was a version of "Yannan Flying Willow Bud Mao is Spring" and so on. No matter how the content changes, it must be a sentence of nine words, nine strokes per word, and the meaning of the text is smooth and elegant, commonly known as "nine nine cold sentences", slowly integrated into various folk cultures, from the deep palace to the folk, to the public, from a simple word game, into a "new folk customs".
The painting version of "Nine Nine Cold Removal Diagram" is worth mentioning. According to legend, the creator is the Southern Song Dynasty Wen Tianxiang, commonly known as "painting nine", that is, using pictures to record the process of "nine nine". The method is to paint a branch of a plain white plum blossom, and there are a total of eighty-one white plums on the branches. From the winter solstice, paint one red flower every day, stay until the white plum is red, and the "nine-nine cold day" is over. Long winter, stay at home, why welcome spring, why pastime? When the ancients opened their minds, they came up with such a very interesting method, combining seasons with calligraphy and painting and even the aesthetics of life. Not only is there a satisfaction in craftsmanship, but it also brings visual and spiritual enjoyment.
At this moment, the year of Xin Ugly is about to pass, ushering in the year of Nongyin. This "Cold Removal Map" of the Year of the Tiger in Wuqiang County is just right. Between the little cold and the big cold, it is the "three nine" season, which is the coldest time of the year. "Ink Edge" Weekly has carefully prepared an enlarged version of the hollow character "Nine-Nine Cold Map", which can be collected in this issue and drawn every day to spend the coldest nine cold days. May everyone settle down and do what they want!
The biggest feature of the "Nine-Nine Cold Map" is that it is not necessary to deliberately but accurately calculate the time. The daily brushstroke makes people feel calm and peaceful through the winter, and unconsciously, spring is near. "There is little desire for cold things, and there is a period of spring return." The coldest winter actually breeds the hope of spring. The majority of readers and friends of the evening newspaper, let's come to the post to cool off!
"Nine Nine Cold Map" hollow word
Interpretation: The weeping willows before the court cherish the spring breeze. Guan Cheng is full of spring.
The "Nine-Nine Cold Removal Map" hanging in the Yangxin Hall of the Forbidden City
Modern Xu Shichang paints plum blossoms "Nine Nine Cold Removal Map"
Interpretation of the text: Xin You(1921) on the winter solstice of November 24, 1921 made the "Nine-Nine Cold Suppression Map". People from Shuizhu Village.
One of the "Nine-Nine Cold Removal Maps" produced by the Forbidden City from the winter of 1923 to 1924
Interpretation: Spring forecourt Bai Feng send incense room. Guan Cheng is full of spring.
Qing Hebei Wuqiang "Nine Nine Elimination (Xiao) Cold Map"
Commentary:
(Top right) Tang Dufu's "Little Solstice": "The days and times are urged by each other, and the winter solstice is yang and spring is back." Embroidery five patterns add weak threads, blowing leaves six ashes flying. The shore is waiting for the wax to be shu willow, and the mountain is cold and wants to release the plum. Clouds and things are not different from each other, teach children and cover the cup in the palm of their hands. ”
(Middle) After the break: The tiger pulls the mill - don't listen to that set.? □ hood - double-material pointed tip. Wax slugs drill □ nests – □ gates. Shell Lang snorted - spewing feces all over his mouth.
(Left) Upper black is cloudy, and lower black is sunny. The weather in the middle of the black is severely cold, and the heat in the middle of the white is hot. It was full of darkness and snow, and the left fog was windy on the right.
The Second "Nine-Nine Cold Removal Map" produced by the Forbidden City from the winter of 1923 to 1924
Interpretation: The weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring breeze. Guan Cheng is full of spring.
"Modern Edition" "Nine-Nine Cold Map"
Qing Tianjin Yang Liuqing "Nine Nine Cold Map"
(Right) Above the picture is cloudy and sunny, and the left picture is rainy and the right picture is windy.
(Left) If it snows at the center point, the figure is semi-cloudy and sunny.
(Top) A few naughty children upside down, cold clothes are not worn in the cold of winter.
The word hunger and hunger are not known, and the daily entertainment is only greedy.
Even the birth of a noble son is also as desired, and it is bound to be three more than nine.
If you ask when this scene will end, 99801 days.
Qing Hebei Wuqiang Zodiac Sign "Nine Nine Cold Elimination Map"
Source Beijing Evening News
Author Xinhua
Process Editor Wu Yue