Explain the idioms on the calendar.

(1) festivals during the twenty-four solar terms.

The 24 solar terms, namely, beginning of spring, rain, fright, vernal equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Busy, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer, Great Summer, beginning of autumn, Chushu, Bailu, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, First Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold, are based on the fact that the sun is on the ecliptic.

② Seventy-two symptoms

The weather lasts for five days, and 365 days a year (average year) is 73 days. In order to correspond to the 24 solar terms, it is stipulated that three days are one day (gas) and a year is 72 days.

Each climate corresponds to a phenological phenomenon, which is called "waiting" The weather should include abiotic and biotic, the former includes "water begins to dry up", "easterly wind thaws", "rainbow begins to appear" and "the ground begins to freeze"; The latter includes animals and plants, such as "Red Rock Comes", "Tiger Begins to Make Love", "Ping Begins to Live", "Bitter Vegetable Show" and "Peach Blossom Begins to Bloom".

Seventy-two climaxes originated very early and played a certain role in agricultural activities. Although some phenological descriptions are not so accurate and some are unscientific, they still have certain reference value for understanding the climate and its changes in ancient North China. Because the initial unit of phenology was small at that time, the actual climate and regional differences were great, so it was difficult to be widely used. Now that the phenology of the Yellow River basin has changed, the phenology of other areas is even more different. It is necessary to continuously develop phenology and formulate a new natural calendar, otherwise it is impossible to mechanically copy ancient books.

Several dragons control the water.

It is determined according to the date of the first day of the first month of each year. For example, the fifth day of the first month is called "Five Dragons in Charge of Water", and the sixth day is called "Six Dragons in Charge of Water", and so on. It is said that the more dragons, the less rainfall, and the less dragons, the more rainfall. Since ancient times, there has been a folk proverb that "there are many people and it doesn't rain".

Several cows are ploughing the fields.

The first ugly day every year (ugly day for cows) is on the first day of the first month, that is, "several cows plow the fields." The more cattle, the better. The more, the better.

⑤ Orientation map and explanatory text of the aged god.

Taking Wu Geng in 1990 as an example, its text description is as follows: (1) Ding Youbing, the sixth son of Jimao Wuzi, a traditional sacrifice victim, avoided good luck when he was buried; 1999, the third evil spirit occupied Dingba Mountain from Fanhairenzi in northern Huang Wu, avoiding all other mountains. Wang Mingqing, the traditional surname, said that heavenly stems belong to gold, earthly branches to fire and Yin Na to earth. Years of virtue are in Geng, and years of virtue are in B. ...

The contents of the first circle in the center and outward of the annual orientation map are "Nine Planets Annual Map", and the taboos of "Huang Wu Li Zhan" and "Ding Wubing" in the text description of the above example come from the application of this "Nine Planets Annual Map". The second circle is the twenty-four mountains (see the article "Twenty-four Mountains"). The third and fourth laps are Nian Shen, who travel all over the country with their age. In the previous example, "the three evils in 2008 are in the north" refers to the three evils in the north, such as sea robbery, the disaster of sitting on the ground by non-promise factions and the disaster of famine.

2. Monthly content

The contents of the monthly calendar include: the size of the month; Jian Yue (1989 has been in1February, for example, Jian Yue Ding Chou); Pay for festivals and the beginning and end of this month; Every night (for example,1February 1989, and every night is); Orientation of the Moon Demon (taking December of 1989 as an example, the orientation of the Moon Demon is the east); Moon star (take1February of 1989 as an example, and the moon star is nine purple). ...

3. Daily content

Calendar is the most miscellaneous, and the real "hodgepodge" is reflected here, mainly including: Gregorian calendar dates; Zhou; Seasons of the day (such as the first quarter, the twenty-four solar terms, the new moon, various festivals, etc.). ); That day was lucky and fierce; The first few days of the lunar calendar; Main branch; Xing Wu, Yin Na; Gossip; Daily divination; Value the nine planets; 28 stars; Twelve consecutive victories; Should be avoided on the same day; Rush to that day; Fetal god day; Good luck, adversity, etc. The contents listed in the arrangement order of a certain version of the yellow calendar are briefly as follows:

① Good or bad luck of a day: whoever meets the evil spirits of the old year, the moon, the new moon, the four-hour escape and the four-hour wonder, no matter what other evil spirits are nearby, it is an unlucky day, and the rest days are judged as peaceful or auspicious according to the twelve constellations (the twelve zodiac gods), the twenty-eight stars and various evil spirits.

(2) building, dividing, filling, leveling, fixing, holding, breaking, danger, success, merging, opening and merging into twelve satellites; The horn, sound, rafter, house, heart and tail are 28 stars (see the article "auspicious day of the ecliptic" and "28 stars"); Jiazi, Yechou, Bingyin, etc. It is the date of the day's dry branch (some words such as "gold", "fire" or "gold in the sea" and "fire in the furnace" are all the five elements of the day's dry branch).

(3) "Celestial officials in the morning", "XiShen at noon", "God's errand in the sun", "You Shi in the morning" and "Fu Wei Xing's errand" are all the contents of the gods when the sun is dry, and they are precious when the sun is dry that day. Due to the space limitation of the Yellow Calendar, only one of them is listed.

(4) The auspicious deities, such as Wang Ri, Yao An, Post Horse, Tian Hou and the evil spirits, such as Moon Break and Sky Fire, belong to the deities of the lunar system.

⑤ Appropriate "marriage, sacrifice, travel, breaking ground" and taboo "medical treatment, word litigation" are the contents of a day, which are inferred by the twelve constellations, the twenty-eight constellations and your gods and evil spirits.

⑥ Wash evil spirits every day: for example, "Wash monkeys and be afraid of the north at the age of four" and "Wash chickens and be afraid of the west at the age of four".

"Chong" means that the earthly branches collide with each other, that is, the meridian, ugliness, Shen Yin, You Mao, Chen Xu and Hayes, and then the twelve earthly branches are matched with the zodiac, that is, the mouse, ugly cow, yinhu, maotu, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey and unitary horse. Therefore, every Children's Day, and the rush at noon, are "running horses"; Yin, Shen, that is, "Running Monkey", is set up in this part of the yellow calendar to tell people not to choose those days that conflict with their genus.

The old monster who often lived in Four Seasons became "Four Seasons Yin Qi". It is extremely vicious and can travel in the sky. Drilling, camp repair and relocation in situ are prohibited. If you accidentally violate this point, your descendants and livestock will be hurt. However, the location of the old evil spirit is easy to find. From the second day, due south, retrograde east, one person a day, four days a week, and so on.

⑦ "Purple-white nine-star grid map" of that day (part of it is the grid map of the moon, the sun, Venus, Romania, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and nine planets).

8 "Nothing at noon" and "Nothing at dawn" and so on. Refer to the article "Good Days and Good Times from the Sun".

Pet-name ruby finally is an auspicious and intense moment of the day.

These words "Zi Ping, Ugly Luck, Yin Fierce" are all inferred from the sun gods (Rilu, XiShen, Wubu, etc.). ), sun gods (Japanese architecture, Japanese cooperation, Japanese horse, Japanese rest, Japanese disaster, Japanese punishment and the gods of the zodiac, such as Qinglong, Tang Ming, Sky Patrol and Suzaku) and other gods (Sky Patrol, etc. ).