What does the rural saying "Five Kyubi no Youko in Spring, Every Family Can't Leave" mean?

We live in a country with a long history. The image we give to outsiders has always been known for its tradition. In China, there are many long and interesting excellent traditions. Among them, "counting nine" is an interesting tradition, and the prediction of temperature and agricultural harvest is one of the most important components.

"Counting nine" refers to the beginning of the winter solstice custom, which is actually counting nine times and nine days. Some people who see this will ask why this number is calculated instead of other numbers. In fact, the seemingly simple number of nine is closely related to our traditional theory of yin and yang and the law of temperature change. Among them, nine represents the number of "yang" in our traditional concept. When we count to nine, it also represents the growth of Yang. When we reach the extreme and count nine nines, the cold represented by "Yin" will dissipate, marking the arrival of spring.

In the long-term experience of the ancients in dealing with nature, according to the unique local climate, people have also summed up many local "nine-number songs" and some customs about nine numbers, which can help people carry out reasonable agricultural production and predict the harvest of production.

In fact, this is a sentence about agriculture put forward by the title. The "spring" in the sentence represents the "beginning of spring" in our 24 solar terms. This sentence left by our ancestors, if beginning of spring appeared on the last day of May 9, then this year's harvest achievement is not very good. Because people don't have enough to eat, they don't have the strength to walk, so as the saying goes, no family can walk on their legs.

The second half of this sentence tells us that if spring appears on the first day of the sixth five-year plan, the field harvest will be good this year. Cattle, as the most important animal force in ancient farming, should be taken care of in advance, because it will soon be of great use. Although there are scientific predictions now, what our ancestors left behind is still very useful.