Is spring the solstice after winter?

The solstice winter has passed, and now it is winter. The ancients believed that it took nine "nine days" from the winter solstice, that is, 998 1 day, before the cold ended and the earth began to warm up, so there was a saying of "counting nine cold days". During this period, many people's activities were restricted because of the cold, especially the entertainment activities were less. Therefore, in order to eliminate the loneliness and cold in the long time from winter to spring, people invented the pastime method of "counting nine".

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Since the Ming Dynasty, there has been a folk custom of drawing the "Nine-Nine Cold Map", also known as the "Nine-Nine Map". People draw a stroke every day to count these 8 1 day, expressing a warm heart to welcome spring.

Among them, Sumeitu is a representative of poetics. Draw a plum blossom first, and nine plum blossoms on the branch, each with nine petals, * * * 998 1 petal, that is, eighty-one small plum blossoms, representing eighty-one days of "counting nine days". Draw a petal or a flower with a red pen or a black pen every day, and the petals will open nine times, and winter will go and spring will come. In ancient times, when officials went to court during the winter solstice, they also gave each other a beautiful gift with Su Mei's "Cold Map in September and September".

People's Daily Online-Today's winter solstice: The earliest solar terms are quite different from the customs in the north and south.