Reading guide:Tomorrow is the thirteenth day of September of the lunar calendar,There are many sayings circulating among the people on this day,For example, "September is afraid of thirteen",So what is this thirteen afraid of? What did the ancestors say?
In ancient times, there was no weather forecast, so a variety of proverbs and proverbs were formed, and there was also a special industry of divination, which was to foreshadow the subsequent year, and this thirteenth was one of the most important days, which was related to the subsequent weather conditions.
Generally speaking, the Thirteenth Festival is associated with the Double Ninth Festival, and our local area has always had "Chongyang no rain to see the thirteenth, thirteenth rainless and dry winter", from here it actually tells us a message, that is, Chongyang is prone to rain, and the thirteenth is also easy to rain, these two days, in essence, are prone to rain.
It is mentioned in "Nong Zhan": If September 13 is sunny, it will be sunny in winter.
We look back at the Double Ninth Festival, that is, the ninth day of the ninth month of September, an omen in the ancient books, the cloud of "Tianjia Five Elements": the eyes of the Double Ninth Festival, the winter solstice, the first day, the upper yuan, and the Qingming are all sunny; The rain is all rain, and the Lord is famine. Yanyun: Nine days of rain, the grass into the preserve. Youyun: Chongyang is wet, and the grass is a thousand money bundles.
If there is no rain, it also indicates that the winter solstice, the first day, the upper yuan, and the Qingming are all sunny, which is why it is said that if the thirteenth is sunny, there will be sunny days throughout the winter, and it is better to have sunny days, but it is better to have rainy days, which is something that people are more afraid of.
September 13, what are you afraid of? The fear is that there will be rain.
Agricultural proverbs are: Chongyang is wet, and the grass is a thousand money bunches. In other words, we can also say that it is "thirteen wet, grass and a thousand money bundles", what does this mean?
Wet: The appearance of water seeping down gradually. 穰 (ránɡ) grass: field grass straw. Thirteen days in the rain, a bunch of straw is worth a thousand dollars. It means that it rained on the thirteenth day, and the straw was broken, so it was expensive. That is to say, we should pay attention to a change in the weather, otherwise it is easy to affect the growth of crops.
In addition, let's look at the second agricultural proverb: thirteen rains, he into preserved food, which means that if it rains on the thirteenth day of September, the original meaning of grass refers to millet, that is, millet, and then refers to all food crops. Sometimes it refers specifically to rice. The millet is shriveled, that is, the grains are not full, which is naturally what people are afraid of, after all, in the past, grain failure was a matter of human survival.
In "The Occupation of the Holiday", there are also relevant records, heavy nine days of rain, the official received. Mellow clouds: When ginger acid rains, those who tune without rain will also have a false sound. Again, the ninth day is the day of the return of rain, and there is rain, and the coming year is hot. Chongyang and Thirteen, it plays the same omen role, so it can also be understood as thirteen rain, when there is a situation of rain on September 13, then the weather will be particularly hot in the coming year, on the contrary, if it is sunny, the winter will be colder.
Seeing this, we understand why the ancestors are afraid of rain on the thirteenth day, because if it rains, then it will foreshadow the follow-up, the weather will have continuous rainfall, and there will be continuous rainfall in the autumn.
This is also why, people are more afraid of autumn rain, in "Jiazi Rain", it was also written: Autumn rain Jiazi, Hetou has ears. It means that if it rains on the Jiazi day in autumn, the crops are easy to rot, and the fifteenth day is the first day, so it is more taboo to rain on these days.