Time is passing and the days are passing. Inadvertently or inadvertently, the days of the Gregorian calendar in 2021 have reached the last day of October, and the lunar calendar has also turned the calendar to the twenty-sixth of September.
Today is Halloween, the day before Halloween. However, Halloween is a popular holiday in the West, so let's leave it alone here. Just to say that we Chinese our own old saying, "In the middle of the month, the fire color people are sick, if the price of rice increases in the thunder", see if this old saying is reasonable? What month does "mid-month" refer to?
First of all, the old saying "in the middle of the month, the fire color people are sick, if the price of rice increases in thunder", the "middle of the month" refers to the September of the lunar calendar. The so-called "mid-month" does not mean "the middle of September or the middle of September", but refers to every day of the whole month of September. That is to say, "in the middle of the month" in the old saying "in the middle of the month, the fire color people are sick, if the price of rice increases in thunder", the meaning to be transmitted is "in September".
"Fire color", in the old saying "fire color people are sick in the middle of the month, if the price of rice increases in thunder", it is not to express the original meaning of "fire-like color", but a metaphor for "high temperature, hot weather", just like the abnormal high temperature and extreme heat in many places in the south during September to early October in the Gregorian calendar this year.
After understanding the meaning of "mid-month" and "fire color", it is natural to understand the complete meaning of the old saying "fire color people in the middle of the month are sick, if they encounter thunder, the price of rice increases". Its meaning is to say that if the weather in the ninth month of the lunar calendar is always hot and hot, people in this abnormal weather, it is particularly easy to have one or another serious illness; if there is a weather symptom of thunder and rain in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, it is difficult to ensure that the future rice price will not rise and rise.
The old saying "Fire-colored people are sick in the middle of the month, if they encounter thunder, the price of rice increases" originates from the "Twenty-four Festivals Song". The "Twenty-Four Solar Terms Song" about "September" is said, "The first frost invades the people, and the sun has no rain and one winter is sunny." In the middle of the month, people with fire colors are sick, and if they encounter thunder, the price of vegetables is high. ”
The old folk proverbs, which originate from production and life, are mostly empirical summaries and the crystallization of wisdom. In the case of this year's "September", the calendar period is October 6 to November 4 in the Gregorian calendar, which is a large month with 30 days. During the period, there are cold dew and frost festivals. The Festival of Cold Dew falls on October 8 of the Gregorian calendar, the third day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. Frostfall Falls on October 23rd in the Gregorian calendar and on September 18th in the lunar calendar.
"Hongyan guests, finches into the water for clams, chrysanthemums have Huanghua" and "Jackals are sacrificial beasts, grass and trees are yellow, stings are salty" are the phenological characteristics of cold dew and frost festivals, respectively. This also shows that in the lunar calendar of September, including the two festivals of cold dew and frost, under the normal climate, the weather should gradually cool down, rather than showing a "fire color" and no longer "thunder". After all, in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, it has reached the time of "an autumn wind and a cold" and "an autumn rain and a cold". "Thunder begins to close" should also be a phenological phenomenon that appears in the autumn equinox.
If it is the time and day in the September of the lunar calendar, the weather is either often like a summer "the sun is like fire, the heat is unbearable", or from time to time there will be "thunder and heavy rainfall" that are common in summer, just like many places in the north and south of the country after September of the Gregorian calendar this year, it has to be said that it is a typical anomaly in the climate.
Things are abnormal and easy to demonize. Abnormal heat is not conducive to crops ripening better in late autumn, affecting normal growth. Poorly filled rice and corn, yield and quality will be affected. During the autumn harvest, abnormal thunder and rain can easily induce a variety of crop diseases, which is not conducive to the timely harvest of mature crops, nor is it convenient to dry the grain that has been harvested in time. All of this can easily lead to losses in terms of yield and quality, and thus affect fluctuations in food prices.
Therefore, the old saying that "fire-colored people in the middle of the month are sick, and if the price of rice increases in the face of thunder", it is quite reasonable.