023 leap month February, the old saying goes, "There is no nine in February, and pigs and dogs will starve to death." What does it mean?
Why is it leap February in 2023?
Here we refer to the second month of the leap lunar calendar in 2023 in the lunar calendar. It is the ancient Chinese calendar that follows the rules of leap year .
The lunar calendar was formulated in ancient my country based on the moon's synodic laws. The average time from the moon to the new year to the new year is 29.5 days. Therefore, the time for each month of the lunar calendar is set to 29 days or 30 days.
Gregorian calendar is a calendar prepared by the West based on the law of the sun running for a week. The sun runs 360 degrees a week, so the time for each month is set to be 30.25 days, so the time for each month of the Gregorian calendar is 30 or 31 days, while February is a normal year, and 28 days is a leap year for 29 days. The leap time of the Gregorian calendar is just an increase of one day every four years.
Since the lunar calendar is 354 days per year, the average year of the solar calendar is 3565 days, and the leap year is 366 days. In this way, the lunar calendar and the solar calendar are 11 to 12 days apart.
In order to make the difference in time between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar not too large, that is, the time of the moon and the sun basically matches the regular movement of the moon. That is to implement seasonal consistency, after all, the 24 solar terms are basically fixed according to the time of the Gregorian calendar. In this way, the ancestors implemented the system of leap years in the lunar calendar, which is the rule of leap once every three years and 7 times in 19 years.
lunar year increases by one month, with the time of this year being 384 days, totaling 13 months. This shortens the distance between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, and a balance between the yin and solar calendar emerges.
So the 2nd month of the leap lunar calendar in 2023 is formulated based on the law of the leap year in the lunar calendar.
2023 Due to the two Spring Festivals in the leap year in February of the lunar calendar, it is called Double Spring Year . The 2023 Spring Festival period is the 14th day of the first lunar month of 2023 , and the 2024 Spring Festival twelfth day of the lunar calendar is . Therefore, there is no Spring Festival in 2024 of the lunar calendar, and it is called No Spring Year or Widow Year.
Double spring years are conducive to getting married. As the saying goes, " Double spring and leap month, and you will get married in a good year." Because there are two Spring Festivals, the weather is relatively warm this year, with plenty of yang energy and sunshine.
can be "double spring years" not conducive to planting and breeding, because the climate is relatively warm, causing the breeding and spread of viral and bacterial diseases, as well as the proliferation of pests. Therefore, there are rural proverbs such as "Double spring is sandwiched with winter, and the hair is as expensive as gold" and "Double spring is sandwiched with winter, and soybeans are as expensive as gold".
The old saying in rural areas "Not nine in February, I will starve pigs and dogs to death", what does it mean?
The "February" here refers to the February of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, my country implemented the lunar calendar, so the time mentioned in some rural proverbs, sayings, old sayings, refer to the date, month, and year of the lunar calendar.
"nine" here refers to number nine days. The ancient "Nine" was very particular. "The three Geng in the summer solstice enter the burial period, and the winter solstice is nine days after the burial period", which means that the third Geng day is the first day after the burial period, and the first ren day after the burial period is nine days.
Later, in order to facilitate the date of "Nine Numbers", the ancients used to make the date of "Nine Numbers" the shortest date in the north, and the middle of winter was about to usher in the middle of winter. As the first day of "Nine Numbers", this is more convenient for memory.
Number of cold days has a total of 9981 days, also called counting nine out of 992. That is, from the day when the winter solstice arrives, as the first day of the 9th, the first day of the next 9th is "19th", the second day of the 9th is "29th", and the second day of the 9th is "29th", and the 9th day of the 9th is "99th".
" Number Nine Songs " describes the climate characteristics of the cold weather: if you don't take action in 1929, you willows by the river 5969, you willows by the river 799, you willows bloom, you willows come, you willows come, you willows come, you willows are everywhere.
can be seen. The coldest of the year is the 39th and 49th days, but in the 9th day, the weather becomes warmer and farmers start to plow in spring, so the song of the 9th is also called the song of the 9th cold.
The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term of the 24 solar term, which is the moment when the sun moves to the seasonal transition at Tropic of Cancer . At this time, the southern hemisphere has the longest day and the northern hemisphere has the longest night.During the Winter Solstice solar term, my country is not the coldest season, because there is still residual heat on the surface of the earth, but then there will be cold weather, so the coldest season is the coldest season.
The days when the winter solstice come are usually between December 21 and December 23, and the lunar calendar is uncertain. Some years are in October of the lunar calendar, and some years are in November of the lunar calendar.
This year's Winter Solstice solar term is December 22, 2023, the 29th day of the lunar calendar, and it is also the last day of November 1, 2023. The day of "Out of the Nine" is March 12, 2024, the first February 21, 2023, the lunar calendar.
Through the above analysis, although the leap month of the lunar calendar in 2023, the weather lasted until the first lunar calendar 20th. Therefore, there is no saying that "February will not be nine" in 2023.
Why does it say "There is no nine in February, and pigs and dogs are starved to death"?
Every year, February of the lunar calendar is already the season for spring flowers to bloom, and this is also the season for farmers to plow spring, and farmers start farming.
Generally, counts nine days will end in February of the lunar calendar, which is a characteristic of normal weather and time.
If there is no nine days in the second month of the lunar calendar, it means that the Spring Festival comes very early, making spring particularly long, and this phenomenon will cause severe late spring cold. After all, the weather still needs to be in season. Since spring comes early, the cold air is very active, so it is easy to form late spring cold.
late spring cold is very unfavorable for crop growth, especially for crops that have just sprouted or just bloomed fruit trees, etc. Once the late spring cold is over, it will be frozen to death or frostbite is very serious. Severe late spring cold will cause grain production to be reduced and even produce the phenomenon of extinction.
If grain production is reduced or the yield is eliminated, this will lead to a state of hunger. So pigs and dogs have no food to eat and can only go hungry. Especially in the past, food production was relatively low, and this situation occurred. Now, due to the development of agricultural technology, high grain output, and the country has reserve grain , there is no phenomenon of pigs and dogs starving.
: The nine days are calculated from , the winter solstice of , and it takes 81 days to push back, so the nine days usually end in February of the lunar calendar. There is only one possibility that is the month of the leap lunar calendar. In this way, nine days will end in the leap lunar calendar month, and there will be no "nine" in the 2nd month of the lunar calendar.
is very rare for leap month . According to historical records, the first month of leap in 1046, the last first month of leap in 1640, and the next first month of leap in 2262. Therefore, the first month of the leap is hard to come by.
To sum up, in the leap lunar month in 2023, the day of "the ninth day" is on the 21st February of the first lunar month. The phenomenon of "nine in February is gone, and pigs and dogs starve to death" does not exist, especially now that agriculture is developed and food is coordinated, there will be no phenomenon of starving pigs and dogs to death.
