Chapter 17: The Origin of the Double Month
As soon as these words came out, Qing'er, who had always been lively and lovely, was a little shy, and Qing'er glanced at the Tianyou people who were still watching her from the side, and her face couldn't help but turn even redder, but she still took a deep breath and said to Zhou Fan: "Listen, Miss Ben's name is Ye Zhiqing, and her nickname is Qing'er." After speaking, Qing'er looked at Zhou Fan with big eyes without blinking, as if waiting for his response.
"Oh, it turns out that the nickname is Qing'er, I thought it was your name, haha." After speaking, Zhou Fan laughed loudly, and Tianyou and the others also snickered on the side.
"Hmph... It turns out that you are deliberately teasing me. Although Qing'er was angry on the surface, she was secretly very happy, and she was happy that she was no longer like a stranger with Zhou Fan.
"Haha, you said that it was my fiancée, why don't you give it down, it seems that I can't marry such a beautiful wife in this life, I guess I'm going to go to the Empty Temple to become a monk." Zhou Fan saw that Qing'er was playing a temper there, and couldn't help but deliberately joke.
"Okay, you two don't be sour, we're still here, if you are sour, do we need to avoid it and give you more (exercise) space." Tianyou saw that Zhou Fan and Qing'er were still flirting there, so he couldn't help but flirt, especially the word (sports) was very clear.
"Uh..." Zhou Fan looked at Tianyou, especially when he heard the word (exercise), he suddenly felt speechless, and Qing'er's face turned red in an instant, but Zhou Fan was a bad thief and smiled, looking at Qing'er on the side.
"Ahem. . . Uh-huh, okay, it's time to get down to business. Feng Long looked at the atmosphere of everyone in the room, and the atmosphere was very good, and he opened his mouth all over again.
"I was just about to ask you, what are you doing in the Empty Underworld Temple tonight, I don't know if tonight is the first day of the seventh month of the seventh month, tonight is even more gloomy than the fourteenth day of July in previous years." Zhou Fan also retracted his bad expression, and sat on the edge of the bed in a serious manner, looking at Tianyou and Feng Long's expressions with a slight hint of blame.
"What did you forget? This is what you told us to go to! Feng Long looked at Zhou Fan with wide eyes at this time.
"What? I let you go? Is there such a thing? Forget it, there are a lot of things I don't remember anyway, so I don't care about these things for now, even if I let you go, but don't you know that tonight is the first day of the seventh month, especially when you go out after the evening.
I have been to the Temple of the Void and Underworld, and I have also observed the geographical situation there, which is arranged with the (double gates of life and death) in the Bagua array, and the so-called double gates of life and death are the (Gen) gate in the Bagua array, and the death gate is the (Kun) gate.
There are a total of eight formations in the Bagua Array: (Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, Dui), which is the Bagua Formation in ancient times, and in later generations: (Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms Period) gave the Eight Gates a more detailed arrangement of the formation.
It is the so-called (Bagua Qimen Dunjia Array) to open the door, the door of rest, the door of life, the door of injury, the door of Du, the door of Jing, the door of death, and the door of shock, which is also the eight doors that people in later generations know the most.
The Eight Gates first originated in ancient times, and according to legend, they appeared in the period of Emperor Xuanyuan, so there are many people who can use it, but I really can't think of anyone in history who can use the spiritual vein that changes the world and keeps the balance of yin and yang at least for more than 2,000 years.
There is not only the spiritual vein of heaven and earth, but also the vein of extreme yin, in this rare double July of thirty-eight years, you actually go to the empty temple of the extreme yin vein, you can't find death. At this time, the more Zhou Fan spoke, the more angry he became, and he almost didn't scold.
Tianyou and Feng Long, you look at me, I look at you, and then Tianyou said: "This, can you not be angry first, besides, we are not you, if we know this, we will not go out tonight, and nothing will happen!" "Tianyou is obviously a little lacking in confidence.
Qing'er saw that the atmosphere was a little stiff and pulled Zhou Fan to sit aside: "Yes, God bless them, don't they know, by the way, what is (double July), is there two July?" At this time, Qing'er's curiosity also came with this, and she helped Tianyou and the two of them say a good word and began to ask about Zhou Fan.
"Alas, I know they didn't mean it, but the double July is too dangerous, especially the first and fifteenth days of the seventh month of the lunar calendar are even more fatal, and the so-called double July is the same as you said, there are two Julys." Zhou Fan sighed and looked at Qing'er and said.
"Huh? That means there are 395 days in a year!" Qing'er's surprised expression was as if she had discovered a new world.
"This doesn't make sense, the longest year is 366 years, there are no 395 days, and there is no record of double July on the calendar, what's going on?" Feng Long also looked at Zhou Fan with a puzzled expression, and also took out his mobile phone to check the information.
"The maximum number of days in a year in the past few hundred years is 385 days, that is, the double July that occurs once every 38 years, which is not recorded in history, because these are the days recorded in our Chinese lunar calendar, which are not recognized by academic organizations in the world, so these materials cannot be found on the Internet.
And it's not that there are 395 days as Qing'er said, but 385 days, because every 38 years, there are only 29.4 and a half days in the first eight months of the double July (double July is not counted), that is, there are only 29.4 and a half days in seven months.
Excluding half a day, each month can only be counted as 29 days, so only 29 days from the previous one to August (except for double July) is equal to 203 days, plus the lunar July of double July is 31 days, and the lunisolar calendar July is 30 days, which is 264 days.
Then there are the remaining 30 days in September, plus 31 days in October, 30 days in November, and 31 days in December, which is equal to 386 days, and finally February of each year is 28 days, and 100% of the double July will not meet the February of the Runli calendar, so there are only 28 days, 386 minus the last day is 385 days.
The algorithm of this double July is not circulated, but it is unique to us in ancient China, and it is only circulated among the previous imperial families and some traditional Taoism, so it is not surprising that you do not know. Zhou Fan had already stepped out of bed at this time, standing on the edge of the window, looking at the moon hanging high and said.
"So that's the case, so today happens to be the first day of the seventh month of the double calendar, and the calculation time should be the ninth month of the world calendar, which is the seventh month of the lunar calendar." Tianyou also fiddled with his phone and looked at the calendar.
"Well, this month is the seventh lunar month of the seventh month, and today is the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is much more gloomy than the 14th of July in previous years, but many people don't know that some people still spend time drinking, some people still work overtime, and some are still driving night trains to solicit passengers.
They didn't know that the chances of encountering these things they didn't know tonight were much higher than what they knew about Halloween, so I was very worried when you didn't come back, not to mention that you still went to the Empty Temple.
At such a time, it is difficult to go to the land of extreme yin, and it is difficult not to encounter some things, and you can come back safely because your ancestors have burned high incense. After speaking, Zhou Fan still looked at this dragon and Tianyou with a bit of anger and fierce expression.
"Ah, then Zimeng is going to buy cigarettes here, isn't it easy to encounter these things." Feng Long instantly thought that Zimeng had gone down not long ago and said that he was going to buy cigarettes, and he couldn't help but worry about him after not seeing him back for so long.
"Huh?" Zhou Fan snorted and frowned, looking at the moon in the sky and didn't know what he was thinking, just when Feng Long wanted to say something, Zhou Fan moved, only to see him raise one hand and pinch the moonlight shining down.
Feng Long didn't bother Zhou Fan when he saw this, so Qing'er felt very curious and wanted to come forward to watch, but was pulled back by Tianyou, Qing'er just wanted to ask a question but saw Tianyou shaking her head at her, and didn't speak, signaling her to wait quietly first and not to disturb Zhou Fan.
Seeing this, Qing'er had no choice but to sit down on the edge of the bed, and it didn't take long for Zhou Fan to turn around and say to Feng Long: "You try to play Zimeng's mobile phone and see if you can get through."
After speaking, he didn't stand by the window, but closed the window and pulled up the curtains.
Maybe everyone didn't realize that when the moonlight came down, the whole room seemed a little cold, but this faint feeling was not strong, and after Zhou Fan's unintentional movements, Tianyou and the others were unconsciously aware of it.
Feng Long also felt the strangeness of the room, but he didn't have the heart to think about it anymore, because the mobile phone that called Zimeng rang this voice, "Tut. Your call is temporarily unreachable, so please call again later. ”
Tianyou glanced at Zhou Fancai, who walked to Qing'er's side, and said to Feng Long: "How is it through, where is he now?" ”
Feng Long's expression was solemn, he didn't speak, just shook his head, and dialed Zimeng's mobile phone again, and at this time, it was already in amplification mode, and the whole room listened: "Dut. Your call is temporarily unreachable, so please call again later. ”