After New Year's Day, it is getting closer and closer to the Spring Festival. For everyone, the traditional Spring Festival is the beginning of a new era, and only by resigning the rat and welcoming the cattle can we reverse the situation. Because in 2020, there is a pneumonia epidemic in the world, many people are looking forward to a good year in the coming year, and recently there has been a saying that "Erlong cures water and 11 cattle plough the field" to predict the year and agricultural harvest. In fact, the year of xin ugly still belongs to the "10 rats to grab grain, 12 tigers to fight for meat", friends, do you know what this means?
These sayings are derived from the old yellow calendar, also known as the "imperial calendar" and "peasant calendar", which are widely spread in the countryside. Because China adopts a mixed calendar, the old yellow calendar is a comprehensive calendar of the Gregorian calendar, the lunar calendar and the dry branch calendar.
The old yellow calendar played a huge role in ancient times, issued by the emperor as a code of conduct for people. In addition, the calendar also contains astronomy, meteorology and seasonal seasons, which are often used as a guide for rural farmers to cultivate, and have a practical role in production.
What does "10 rats grab food" mean?
This theory comes from the ancient dry branch calendar, which uses 10 days of dry and 12 earth branches to form 60 stem branches to calculate time. "10 rats grab grain", that is, the first sub-day of the first month of each year (the child is a rat) on which day, determines its number. The tenth day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Ugly Year is the stem of the Gengzi, so it is called "10 rats grabbing grain".
What is the meaning of "10 rats grabbing food"?
We all know that rats are one of the four pests, destroying crops and stealing food. There are more rats, which is certainly not a good thing, but in the ancient countryside, rats are a symbol of wealth, and businessmen often worship money rats, highlighting the beautiful meaning of attracting wealth and treasure. From this point of view, the year of "10 rats grabbing grain" should be good, combined with the colloquial "year of cattle and horses, good farming", next year's agricultural harvest can not be wrong.
What does "12 Tigers Fight for Meat" mean?
Same as above, from the beginning of the first month after the Spring Festival. The first Yin Day (寅為虎) appears on the twelfth day of the first month, and the stem branch is 壬寅, which represents that next year belongs to the "12 Tigers Fighting for Meat".
Tigers as an exotic species, in the ancient countryside represented cannibalism, at that time, relative to the worship of dragons, tigers are very fierce, so the number of tigers competing for meat represents the amount of meat, the number determines the degree of difficulty of breeding, and "12 tigers compete for meat" actually reflects the lack of meat.
Since the beginning of 2019, the increase in meat prices is too large, from the initial 6 yuan / kg has risen to 30 yuan / kg, although the hard-hit industry has recovered 80%, the number of live pigs has been enough, but the meat price is still as strong as the undead Xiao Qiang is still strong.
The rise in meat prices has brought deep harm, triggering rising prices and triggering inflation; in addition, people look forward to meat and sigh, and the elderly and children do not know the taste of meat for many days. In 2021, there is a saying of "nine slaughters and pigs", which still means that the meat price will not be cheap next year.
What do you think of these two sayings?
In fact, for the ancients, a considerable number of sayings come from the accumulation of experience, or even just a good wish, lack of scientific study, and now has long lost its guiding role. Conversely, as science and technology increase productivity, mechanization and sweat withstand natural disasters, a bumper harvest in agriculture can be controlled and expected. As for pork, today's pig futures have been listed, which will help the meat price return in 2021, and it is believed that the meat price will return to the people's table again.
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