"One year old is sad, only dog days", dog days are the hottest time of the year in the mainland, steaming and cooking, people will have fatigue, loss of appetite, this time is also known as long summer.
In the Qing Dynasty on the mainland, there was a "super dog day", Qianlong eight years of the "Fushan County Chronicles" recorded: "summer and May heat, road pedestrians use more people to kill, Beijing division is even worse, floating people in Beijing traders also have heat death", it is said that many people were killed by heat. May here corresponds to the solar calendar July, according to the paleoclimatology laboratory experts conversion, the eighth year of Qianlong (1743) July 20 to 25 afternoon average temperature is more than 40 °C, of which the highest temperature on July 25 reached an astonishing 44.4 °C, to know that the highest temperature of the human body is more than 40 °C when it is very dangerous, the summer is too hot that is the "heat disaster".
Spring belongs to wood, summer belongs to fire, long summer belongs to earth, autumn belongs to gold, winter belongs to water, in the five elements wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to gold, gold gives birth to water, and water gives birth to wood, so the change of the five elements is the change of the four seasons of the year. So which day of the year will there be an ambush? How many days will there be in total? Will the dog days be hot this year? Let's find out sooner.
How are dog days scheduled in 2024?
Dog days include the first volt, the middle volt and the last volt, the first volt and the last volt are fixed 10 days, the time of the dog day is determined by the Geng day, some years have 10 days, some years have 20 days, so the dog days have a total of 30 days or 40 days.
The folk proverb says that "the summer solstice will count the three Geng, and the autumn will enter the end of the year", which means that the third Geng day after the summer solstice is the time of ambush (the first day of the dog days), and the first Geng day after the beginning of autumn is the time to enter the end of the volt. The time between the first volt and the last volt is the middle volt, that is, between the fourth Geng day after the summer solstice and the first Geng day after the beginning of autumn.
There are 10 heavenly stems, namely A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and Dec, and there are 12 earthly branches, which are Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai, and the heavenly stems and earthly branches form 60 combinations in a certain order, and if they are used to record the day, then each combination represents a day. Geng day appears every 10 days, there are a total of 6 Geng days, which are Gengwu day, Gengchen day, Gengyin day, Gengzi day, Gengxu day and Gengshen day, the earlier the first Geng day after the summer solstice, then the earlier the time of ambush, if the summer solstice coincides with the "Geng day", then the year is the "earliest volt".
June 21, 2024 summer solstice, this day is "Bingchen Day", the first Geng day after the summer solstice is June 25, for the "Gengshen Day", because the Geng day and Geng day are separated by 10 days, so 20 days later is the third Geng day after the summer solstice, this day is July 15 for Gengchen Day, so this year July 15 ambush.
The next 10 days from July 15th is the fourth Geng day after the summer solstice, so July 25 is the time to enter the middle volley, and the next 10 days are August 4th, which is the fifth Geng day after the summer solstice, because the beginning of autumn on August 7, 2024, the first Geng day after the beginning of autumn is the time of the end of the autumn, so the delay of 10 days after August 4th is the first Geng day after the beginning of autumn, and August 14 is the time of the end of the autumn.
First volt time: July 15, 2024 to July 24, 2024, a total of 10 days;
Medium volt time: July 25, 2024 to August 13, 2024, a total of 20 days;
The last time is: August 14, 2024 to August 23, 2024, a total of 10 days.
This year's dog days start on July 15 and last until August 23, a total of 40 days, and the time of ambush is always between July 11 and July 21, generally before July 16, and the middle ambush is 20 days.
In the rural areas of the mainland, there is an old saying called "the male volt is hot and the cow is cold", which means that if it is a male volt in that year, then it indicates that the dog days will be very hot, and "hot dead cow" is an exaggerated expression, indicating that the weather is very hot; and if it is a female volt that year, then it indicates that the dog days will be cooler, and "cold and fluttering" is also a relatively exaggerated expression, indicating that the weather is cool.
According to the philosophical outlook of the mainland, everything in the world is divided into yin and yang, like the sun is yang and the moon is yin, the day is yang and the night is yin, men are yang, women are yin, singular numbers are yang, and even numbers are yin.
Yang corresponds to "male", yin corresponds to "mother", according to the traditional saying, if the lunar time on the day of ambush is singular, then it is "male", on the contrary, if the lunar time on the day of ambush is double, then it is "female".
July 15, 2024, this day corresponds to the tenth day of the sixth month, and the lunar date corresponds to an even number, so it is clear that the dog day of 2024 is the "mother volt". Based on the experience of our ancestors, this year's dog days will be relatively cool, so let's wait and see if the old adage is accurate.
Do you think the old adage is accurate?