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How to count volts and nine

Dog days, starting from the third Geng Day after long summer and ending after beginning of autumn, "dog days" * * * 30 days or 40 days; The counting of nine starts from the day of winter solstice and ends after 8 1 day, which is 8 1 day.

From summer to the future, the third Geng Day will be the first Geng Day, the fourth Geng Day will be in the middle, and the first Geng Day after beginning of autumn will be the last. The first and last Geng day are 10 days respectively, and the middle one is 10 days or 20 days. If there are four Geng days between summer solstice and beginning of autumn every year, the middle day is 10, and if there are five Geng days, the middle day is 20 days. Most years, the middle one is in the middle.

In the winter of solstice, every nine days is regarded as a "nine", and * * * is divided into nine "nine", * * * 9981 days.

V means to hide, so people should go out less for the summer. In terms of diet, people will eat cool food to spend the hot summer.

When the wheat harvest in China was less than one month, every household in Man Cang had wheat. However, in dog days, people are listless and lose appetite, but jiaozi is a good food to satisfy their appetite. Therefore, people use newly ground flour to wrap jiaozi, or eat noodles made of new white flour. There is a saying that "jiaozi is wrapped on the head, rice cakes are wrapped on the face, and eggs are spread on the dog days".

In Shandong, some places eat raw cucumbers and boiled eggs to cure the bitter summer, and eat eggs in the rainy morning without eating other foods.