#Great learning#"Two leaps in three years", the old parents who have planted fields all their lives often nag this sentence. So what exactly is a leap month?
The leap month is a month without neutral qi in the lunar calendar when each month is stacked up on a day when there are fewer solar terms than two solar terms in order to keep up with the pace of solar terms.
To be more specific, the lunar calendar is based on the moon's orbit around the earth, with an average of twenty-nine and a half days per month. Solar terms are divided according to the solar ecliptic, and the sun orbits in one circle, which is equal to the time it takes for the earth to make one revolution, that is, 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds. This time is divided into twenty-four equal parts, each of which is the time of a solar term, which is about fifteen days and more than five hours.
Two solar terms are thirty and a half days, one more day than the lunar calendar, which will cause the days of the solar terms in the lunar calendar to be constantly postponed. When there is no medium gas in a certain month, it is a leap month. The emergence of the leap month is to synchronize the lunar calendar and the solar term, so before the leap month, the solar term must be at the latest time of the lunar calendar.
Therefore, there are leap month years, the solar term is delayed, and the spring is often cold, so there is a saying that "double spring clamps a leap, and the hairy is as expensive as gold". In leap February this year, more than half of spring has passed, and some places are still as cold as winter, the cold suppresses the yang qi and cannot grow, the sun does not come out, the earth opens the vibration mode, the people are sick, and everything does not grow long.
The old man often said: Leap month Meng Po soup, someone must be injured, what does it mean?
Let's take a look at what is Leap Moon Meng Po Soup first?
The spring equinox is the apex of the rise of wood qi, and it is also the beginning of the breeding of fire gas, and the fire is hot in summer, so the temperature is most afraid of not rising at this time. The temperature does not rise, the earth moves, the disease increases, and everything does not grow. At this time, the fire will be revealed, the cold will still not dissipate, the cold is winter water, the water and fire are relative, and people are sick.
Whenever the two qi confront, it is the time when the plague god is, the spring plague Zhang Yuanbo, the summer plague Liu Yuanda, the autumn plague Zhao Gongming, the winter plague Zhong Rengui, and the middle plague history and literature, representing the unfavorable qi of the four seasons. The power represented by Zhang Yuanbo of Spring Plague is the confrontation between cold and heat, so the cold at this time can easily cause people to leave.
Therefore, the three days before and after the spring equinox are called "the other side of spring", and the three days before and after the autumn equinox are called "the other side of autumn". This flower blooms all the way to the Wangxiang Terrace, with flowers and no leaves, leaves without flowers, and the flowers and leaves never meet, guiding those who leave to cross the bridge and start again. The so-called Naihe Bridge is a kind of helpless attachment and forgetting.
The purpose of crossing the bridge is to cross the river, which is called the Oblivion River. If you want to cross the river, there are only two ways, one is to drink Meng Po soup, forget everything that has been, and walk over the bridge. The other is to be pushed down the Forget River, struggle for a thousand years, and swim through by yourself. Or take a boat to cross it, which requires great chance.
So the best way is to drink Meng Po soup and walk across the bridge. Meng Po soup has five flavors, sweet, bitter and salty, with eight tears as the guide, boiled, representing birth, old age, sickness, regret and sorrow. That is, it is made from the tears you have shed all your life, and after drinking, everything that was once will be forgotten.
Since Meng Po is the mother-in-law who sells soup, it means that Meng Po soup is not free, so when people leave, they always have to bring a few copper coins, hold them in their hands, and put them in their mouths to contain money, and the purpose is different. Six copper coins are generally placed in the hand, which means to buy road money, that is, to buy a bowl of Meng Po soup, and smoothly walk across the Naihe Bridge.
The bridge is divided into three layers, the upper layer is over the good, the middle is over the ordinary people, and the lower layer is over the wicked. The upper layer is the safest, the lower layer is the most dangerous and easy to fall. Among the numbers, seven is the number of resurrection, so the first seven are underground, and two and seven are helpless. There is a poem: Twenty-seven dead people crossed the Nai River, and thousands of teams crossed the river.
At the latest, by Qiqi, most people will walk across the Naihe Bridge and start over, so Qiqi is full seven. Unless you are pushed down the Forgotten River, it will take a thousand years to start over. Thousands of years underground, three years on earth, so in folk custom, three years is the last sacrifice, and the worship after that is just a thought, because after three years, the ancestors have already started again.
Therefore, the Forgetting River is the last pass for the resurrection of ancestors, and Meng Po is the guardian of this pass, the messenger sent to usher in. The first place after people left was Meng Po Zhuang, sent by Meng Po, and then sent away by Meng Po. Therefore, Meng Po is not only one, but a proxy for a position, a messenger sent to the underground, so Meng Po determines the life and end of the person.
In the leap month Meng Po soup, someone must be injured
People live in the atmosphere on the surface of the earth, and the changes in the atmosphere determine the obedience of people, and the wind is the direction of atmospheric changes. The wind determines the changes in the atmosphere, which also determines people's obedience, so Meng Po is the wind, that is, the hurricane. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" says: The second daughter of the emperor, swimming in the river, will follow the wind and rain when entering and leaving, and the emperor's daughter will be called Meng Po.
It is said in the "Words of the Past": It is commonly known as Meng Po in the wind, and the hurricane mother is Meng Po. Jiang Jie of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem saying: Spring rain is like silk, embroidered with flowers and branches, how to forbid him Meng Po to be early. Therefore, Meng Po is a hurricane, and a hurricane is a west wind, born of qi, with its own killing qi, and an autumn wind.
In February this year, the leap year, the year star is in the dun, the moon is built in the dun, and the second star is also in the dun, and the dun is contaminated with disease. Relative to you, you are most afraid of the wind blowing. The unitary wind is the west wind, that is, the hurricane, and the hurricane is Meng Po, so this year's leap month Meng Po soup blows the west wind for the year and the moon, and the west wind at this time can send people away and can send back ancestors.
It is the spring gate, and all things have come out, which is the image of opening the door. You is the autumn gate, all things have entered, and it is the symbol of closing the door. 卯 is the apex of Shaoyang, is the power of the growth of all things, unitary is the apex of golden qi, is the power of all things withering, so the birth and unitary end, the unitary wind is Meng Po, ushering in the sending, in the leap month when there is no medium qi, there must be someone injured, so leap February is most afraid of the wind, the most afraid of the cold.
This year's star is in the same position as the two stars, the wood becomes sick, and the wind hits the wood, but when the solar term is in the wood, the disease hurts the unitary gold, and the air is dry and dirty, and people are prone to lung gold injury. Therefore, at this time, I am most afraid that Meng Po will come to boil the soup, that is, the west wind will blow, the west wind will hurt gold, the north wind will crush the fire, and the earth will move more.
Yi Yu said: "The house of accumulation of good will have Yuqing, and the house of accumulation of bad will have aftermath". If you want to have a good ending, you must first do good deeds and accumulate virtue!