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"Double Ninth Double Ninth Festival, looking for it in the coming year", the Double Ninth Festival is the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and in September, the yang energy is the most prosperous at this time, so it is called Double Ninth Festival.
Why is there such a saying in the agricultural proverb handed down by the older generation, is it not good to look for it in the coming year?
Of course, there is not only this sentence in the Double Ninth Festival, climbing to appreciate chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating Chongyang cakes, and there is also the custom of praying for blessings and avoiding disasters during the Double Ninth Festival.
So what is the impact of the sunny day of the Double Ninth Festival?
Crops on a sunny day.
Why is it said that sunny days are not good in agricultural proverbs, this has to start from the lunar calendar, from the beginning of winter, crops will not grow, at this time farmers need to be busy cutting wheat.
In autumn, when the temperature gradually decreases, some people harvest crops and watch the stars cross the sky, and the stars cross the sky one by one.
Some weather is sunny, the sky is blue, there is a breeze blowing in the fields, and the wheat on the fields is swaying together.
However, such weather is generally seen in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the time is still quite short, and after the warm day class, it is immediately the rest day.
The peasants took advantage of the good weather and toiled hard in the fields, harvesting handfuls of wheat, and in a short time a large patch of wheat was harvested.
The little friends in the countryside are keen to watch the wheat being harvested, catch a grasshopper that watches for an hour, find some reed leaves to make a bed, and then put it into a large children's wine jar, let the grasshopper whistle inside.
In a few moments, the whistling of the grasshoppers emerging from the children's wine jar was a way to spend the cool days in the countryside, but that is no longer the case.
So why is the sunny day bad, the agricultural proverb put down by the older generation tells us that the ninety-nine double yang sunny day, the coming year is busy, so the sunny day is not good, that is because the crops are acute on the sunny day.
Sunny days make it easier for crops to be anxious, and crops are afraid of drying, which in itself is a bad signal, so the role of "good place" on sunny days is said.
On such a sunny day, the moisture of the crops will evaporate very quickly, just like the clothes we dry outside after taking a shower, and the clothes will dry in less than two or three hours.
And the temperature on a sunny day is high, the crops will turn yellow because of drought, which is very unfavorable for crops, so it is believed that the crops on sunny days have "acute seeds", and in winter, because the crops do not store enough water, they are easy to become moldy and will rot.
As a result, the people who plant crops in the coming year will waste their efforts, their productivity will decrease, and the harvest will probably not be good, and it will not be as good as the previous year, which is the so-called "hunting for the next year".
And if there is no rain on a sunny day, there is a drought and lack of water in the winter, which may make it difficult to cultivate the fields because there is no water in the fields when spring planting is done the following spring.
Therefore, it is necessary to pray for blessings in the coming year on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, and to climb the height to appreciate the chrysanthemums when praying for blessings, and at the same time protect the crops from yellowing and mildew due to sunny days.
Climb high to appreciate chrysanthemums and pray for blessings and avoid disasters.
From ancient times to the present, there has gradually been the custom of climbing the Double Ninth Festival, and there are many origins of the Double Ninth Festival, one of the more famous stories is that there was an eldest daughter Yang E in the Han Dynasty, who was very smart.
Later, Yang E married General Huo, but after marriage, she lived a dull life, there was no happy event of having children, and there was no thing to cause criticism, but she lived a long time and was old.
Fortunately, my mother-in-law is a very kind person and will not abuse her, but it is also at this time, and there is a saying called "juggling" in the old days.
This is a kind of performance, and Yang E's mother-in-law began to practice acrobatics day after day in order to have some fun for her and let her do it.
So Yang E gradually heard about it among everyone, so there were many people who inquired about her, so she took advantage of the chaos, in fact, she heard that there are ghosts that are the most convincing, to say that she doesn't want to see people anymore.
In this way, some people will not pursue it, so Yang E will take advantage of the chaos, whether it is night or daytime, it will become a dark and ugly situation, and even she herself does not dare to look at herself in the mirror.
At the end of the day, she was more like a cat, so she left such an impression on everyone, so the people around her would no longer bother her, and Yang E gradually lived a leisurely life.
On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, she also went up the mountain to enjoy the chrysanthemums, but on this day, a big white rabbit took the initiative to run into her arms, Yang E looked at the white rabbit suspiciously, but after a while, the white rabbit jumped into the hole of a big tree, and she did not come out again.
Yang E then dug up here and saw a white jade bottle containing a large pill, which contained a silk book and said: "This pill is the elixir on Penglai Immortal Island, as long as the words on the pill are solved, you can seal the demon and kill the ghost, and the world is peaceful."
So Yang E went to the local government with this silk book on his back, so the government officials wrote the word "mountains and rivers", and after entering the palace, the guardian saint in the palace immediately perished, and then devoured all the people in the palace.
Yang E left the elixir again, and when she went out, it was an old man who said to her: "I will help you with your demon subjugation, and your problem is not a problem."
The old man who is over 90 years old has made the country peaceful.
Since then, there has been a custom of climbing high during the Double Ninth Festival, and perhaps the custom of "health preservation" or "chrysanthemum appreciation" is also to pray for blessings, and at the same time there are more outdoor sports to spend the last warm day.
As for drinking chrysanthemums, it is said that Yang E used chrysanthemums to hydrolyze the spirit pill, and Yang E is a woman who loves beauty, so she naturally will not let herself become Ah Fei, and often pours biscuit water to drink, so since ancient times, only Chongyang can drink chrysanthemum wine on this day.
As for Chongyang cake, Yang E's story has been passed on by many people, and people have a new understanding of Yang E, so they put the pastry that Yang E likes to eat on this day, and this cake is gradually called Chongyang cake.
Sunny days are not good for acute children, the wisdom in agricultural proverbs.
The custom of climbing the mountain during the Chung Yeung Festival is also to be careful, because it is autumn, the grass and trees begin to wither, there is no forest in the mountain, and when the wind blows, you can't float down.
Therefore, it is best to climb some mountains that are not steep, but you should also pay attention to safety when climbing mountains.
The "Ninety-Nine Double Sunshine, Searching for the Next Year" handed down by the older generation is a summary of agricultural affairs, and it can be said that it is the best wisdom summarized from the hard work of the ancestors.
In modern times, we can solve this problem by some modern means, such as weather forecasting, if the weather is bad, bring an umbrella, and put water on a cloudy day.
There are also greenhouses, not afraid that the crops will not grow in winter, farmers can get some meteorological information for the first time, and daily life is not groggy, and a little attention can also understand a lot.
However, when the ancestors recorded these agricultural proverbs, they did not have these means, they only thought about them through some bits and pieces of daily life, so this is also their wisdom and experience.
This agricultural proverb tells us that there is no need to rush things, and many times, if we do something in a hurry, it will backfire in the end.
Just like crops can't be rushed, if we rush to plant seeds when the crops sprout, then in the end we will definitely not grow a green field, but a messy and weedy land.
Crops need a process to grow, need to wait for spring, summer, and autumn, and modern people had better not ignore the weather, because since ancient times, there have been natural disasters if you don't agree.
However, thanks to modern technology, even ordinary people can get more information through some technology.
On the sunny day of the Double Ninth Festival, we must do a good job of prevention, and don't let the storage at home be sunburned, because we don't know what will happen in the dark.
epilogue
The wisdom in the agricultural proverb is the wisdom of the ancestors through little by little observation and thinking, thinking, coupled with experience, wisdom will be more perfect, we can get a lot of enlightenment.
However, modern farmers can not only retain the wisdom of their ancestors, but also obtain more information, and at the same time, to a certain extent, can make up for the experience of their ancestors.
The combination of tradition and modernity can carve out a sustainable path for our future.