Winter Solstice Mnemonic

The winter solstice counting nine mnemonic is as follows:

Yi Jiujiu not out. The first thing you need to do is to look at the river and see the willows. The river is open, eight nine geese come. Nine nine plus one nine, plow oxen all over the place.

Nine song is a Chinese folk proverb, in traditional Chinese culture, nine for the extreme number, is the largest, most, the most permanent concept. Nine nine that eighty-one is the "biggest but" number. Ancient Chinese people believe that after the winter solstice nine nine eighty-one, spring has certainly come.

Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice, also known as the day of the South Solstice, the Winter Festival, the subyear, etc., both natural and humanistic connotations of the two, both the twenty-four seasons in an important festival, but also a traditional Chinese folk festival of ancestor worship. The winter solstice is one of the four seasons, is regarded as a big winter festival, in the ancient folk "winter solstice is as big as the year," said.

The winter solstice is the "twenty-four solar terms" of the 22nd solar term, the bucket refers to the son, the sun's yellow longitude reaches 270 °, in the annual calendar December 21-23 cross section. The winter solstice is the extreme southward point of direct sunlight, the winter solstice this day sunlight directly to the Tropic of Capricorn, sunlight on the northern hemisphere is the most tilted, the sun's altitude angle is the smallest, is the northern hemisphere around the shortest day, the longest darkest day.

The winter solstice is also the turning point of the sun's point of direct sunlight back to the north, after this day it will go "back to the road", the sun's point of direct sunlight began to move northward from the Tropic of Capricorn (23 ° 26 ′ S), the northern hemisphere (our country is located in the northern hemisphere) the day will be growing day by day.

The winter solstice, although the sun is low, although the day is short, but meteorologically, the winter solstice temperature is not the lowest. In fact, because there is still "heat" on the surface of the earth, it is usually not very cold before the winter solstice, and the real cold comes after the winter solstice. Due to the wide range of climates across China, this climatic significance of winter is obviously late for most parts of the country. The winter solstice, marking the imminent entry into the cold season, the folk began to "count nine" to calculate the cold days (folk proverb: "the summer solstice three g into the ambush, the winter solstice, Feng Nong count nine").