What does 79 mean?

79 means the seventh nine days from the winter solstice, which is also the method used by the ancients to calculate the cold days, so 79 comes from this.

There is a famous folk nursery rhyme "Song of Nine Nine-Nine": 19, 29 don't shoot, 39, 49 ling, 59, 69 seeing willows along the river, 79 river opening, 89 geese coming, 99 plus 19 cows going everywhere.

It blooms in July and September, and after a period of warm weather, the flowers begin to bloom slowly. Colorful is always spring, and a hundred flowers bloom. Swallows who flew to the south for the winter also flew back, ready to nest under the eaves. Look at this battle. It will take some time.

79 Custom: There is a saying among the people in our country: Three-nine-four-nine on the ice, eight-nine-nine-nine Yan returns. 79 apricot flowers and 5969 willow trees along the river. From the solstice of winter, it is the coldest time in winter, and every nine days is a "nine". The current 24 solar terms are due to the fact that there were four solar terms in Shang Dynasty, and it was not until the Western Han Dynasty that they became the current 24 solar terms. The coldest time in winter is March 9, counting from the day after the winter solstice.

There is a folk method in our country to calculate the date of cold spring and warm flowers, that is, winter goes and spring comes, which is the coldest time of the year and the coldest time is from March 9 to April 9. By September 9, it means the arrival of spring, which is a "shocking" solar term. Song of 99 skillfully uses the phenological phenomena in nature, and there are many traditional customs in China.