Corresponding dates of the nine nine song festivals

The dates corresponding to the 9-9 Songs Festival are as follows:

1-9: December 22nd~December 30th.

The second nine: December 31 ~ January 8 of the following year.

Sanjiu: January 9th ~ January 17th.

Sixth: January 18th ~ January 26th.

Fifth nine: January 27th ~ February 4th.

Sixth Ninth: February 5 to February 13th.

Seven-nine: February 14th to February 22nd.

8-9: February 23 ~ March 3 (February 23 ~ March 2 in leap years).

9-9: March 4~March 12 (March 3~March 11 in leap year)

Introduction to Counting Nine

Counting Nine, "Counting Nine" is a Han Chinese folk festival of winter." Counting nine" from the annual 'winter solstice' day to start counting, every nine days as a unit. In traditional Chinese culture, nine is the ultimate number, which is the biggest, the most, the most long-lasting concept. Nine nine or eighty-one is the "biggest but" number.

The ancients believed that after the winter solstice of nine nine eighty-one days, spring would surely come. As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China has been using the earth to observe the sun, the earliest determination of the winter solstice, since the Shang Zhou winter solstice rituals, in the North and South Dynasties, there are nine nine said, "nine nine song" originated in the Song Dynasty, the popularity of the Ming Dynasty. There are a lot of customs of "counting nine".

Counting nine days nearly three months long, relatively long time, from the beginning of the count to the end of the nine spring depths, it is a gradual change from the winter cold to the spring warm process. From the day of the winter solstice counting, to nine days as a unit, even count nine nine days, to nine nine **** eighty-one days, the long winter is over.