Traditional folk games in winter solstice

The activities of the winter solstice party begin with "Nine" (wine). Literati often invite relatives and friends to choose a "September" day to meet nine people for drinking (the homonym of "wine" and "nine"), and there are nine dishes and nine bowls on the table. Those who have finished the table use the "nine flowers" seat to take the meaning of "nine nine cool".

The second is to fill in the "99 Cold Current Map". Usually, it is a nine-character double-hook red calligraphy of "weeping willows in front of the court and cherishing the spring breeze", with nine paintings per word and eighty-one paintings. From the solstice of winter, fill in a stroke order every day, and fill in a word in September every year. Until the spring returns to the earth after September, a picture of September's cold elimination will be completed. The color of strokes filled every day is determined according to the weather of the day, and sunny days are red; Yin is blue; Rain is green; The wind is yellow; Snow fell and filled with white.

Moreover, filling in the 99-99 map to eliminate cold is also varied. For example, draw nine cold plums on white paper. Each cold plum has nine flowers, one for nineteen and one for one day. Fill a plum blossom with a specific color every day according to the weather. In Yuan Dynasty, Yang Yunfu recorded in "Luanjing Zayong": "Try to count nine or nine pictures between windows, and the remaining cold will disappear, and the warmth will return to the beginning. Plum blossoms are everywhere. I think today is apricot. "

The most exquisite "99 Cold Relief Picture" is a nine-body couplet. Nine words per couplet, nine pictures per word, and each couplet is filled in daily. For example, the couplet reads "Spring hangs, spring blooms, spring blooms"; The second couplet is called "Autumn Persimmon Hanging in Autumn Courtyard to Send Autumn Fragrance", and it is called "Eliminating Cold and Welcoming Spring in September". However, no matter what kind of "99-99" map, it simply records the weather changes while killing time and entertaining the body and mind. It is said that experienced old people can also infer the rainfall and abundance this year according to the cold elimination map of 1999.

The gathering activities of literati formed a unique winter solstice culture, expanded the cultural connotation of winter solstice, and made this solar term in sharp contrast with other solar terms, thus having more commemorative significance. ...