But why?

Obviously, you can directly use wood chips to make a box, which is more convenient for the surface of the seal carving and gilding, but someone has ingeniously hollowed out each side of the box, and now it is not a box, but a closed structure made of six wood-shaped boxes.

Besides, according to the rules, this wooden box will not participate in the game at all, but it has been placed on the table, could it be that there are other functions?

Before Qi Xia could figure it out, the ground monkey had already stood up and reached out to snatch the wooden box back, then carefully wiped it, checked the corners again, and made sure that there was no damage before putting it back on the table.

"If you want to touch my things in the future, please say hello in advance." The ground monkey said with a somewhat unhappy face, "Even if you want to commit suicide, I will give you a knife as soon as possible, why bother with the box?" ”

Qi Xia stared at the other party's eyes, and slowly revealed a wicked smile.

His red face, evil smile, and slightly trembling right hand made the whole person as strange as a demon, making the ground monkey can't help but lean back against his body.

"Now I'm finally a little more sober......," Qi Xia said, "You just told us that 'Frostfall' is 'September Twenty-Three,' right?" ”

“…… Be. The ground monkey agreed.

Qi Xia also nodded after hearing this, Zheng Yingying's question pointed out the most critical point, and now he seemed to know how to conduct this "comparison of size".

The fog partially dissipated, and the hidden knowledge appeared.

The 24 solar terms are neither solar nor lunar, but luni-solar calendars.

So whether you look at it from the Gregorian calendar to the lunar calendar, the dates change every year, and there are only two ways to deduce the numbers of all the cards by the wayside.

First, know exactly a year.

Second, know exactly the exact date of one of the days.

"Traditional festivals" are naturally easy to say, and the "lunar calendar" is unchanged.

For example, the "Qixi" in his hand must be the seventh day of the seventh month of July, the "Lantern Festival" is the fifteenth day of the first month, the "Chongyang" is the ninth day of the first month of September, and the "Chinese New Year's Eve" is the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

Therefore, if you want to compare the size, it is impossible for the ground monkeys to adopt a controversial "solar calendar", otherwise the answers will not convince the public, and the gamble will become more difficult.

To sum up, if this "ratio of size" really uses the key point of date, it will inevitably use a relatively fixed "lunar calendar".

Now the question lies in the dates of each "solar term".

Fortunately, the ground monkey gave the most crucial point - the date of "frostfall" is September 23.

In this way, there is no need to know exactly what year it is, even if the year is fictional, it only needs to be extrapolated according to the information given by the ground monkeys.

Because all the information will be clearly visible, each solar term is separated by fifteen days, and the twenty-four solar terms of the year have all been known, and at this time, the cards on the table have also become a group of numbers in Qi Xia's eyes.

He looked at the "7th day of the 7th month of the 7th month" in his hand, then at the "15th day of the seventh month" on the table, and finally at the "21st day of the fifth month" in the hand of the ground monkey.

As soon as the monkey announces the highest hand at the end of the round, all the rules of the game will be gone.

Qi Xia stretched out his hand to wipe the blood on the right side of his face, and then raised his head and said, "Earth Monkey, can you continue?" ”

The ground monkey noticed that the eyes of the man in front of him were completely different from when he first entered the venue, but he didn't know what the problem was.

"The spring rain shocks the spring and the valley sky, and the summer is full of mangs and the summer is connected. Autumn dew, autumn frost, winter snow and snow and winter small and big cold. With the help of a sober mind, Qi Xia decisively found the sealed knowledge in his mind, "In the first half of the year, every June and twenty-one, and in the second half of the year, there is a difference of sixty days between "summer heat" and "frost fall", so the date of "summer heat" is July twenty-three. ”

All the dates for the first half of the year are the sixth and twenty-first days of the first month, and the dates for the second half of the year are all the eighth and twenty-third days of the first month, plus the months of the solar calendar, which is the date used in this game.

Qi Xia finally understood what the ground monkey meant before he started the bet.

He said that the people he met over the years had gambling skills but no knowledge, and those who were knowledgeable had no courage, so no one could gamble with him.

There are so many things that this deck of cards requires that gambling alone is not enough.

After all, there are only two Chinese characters on each card, but you have to use these Chinese characters to compare the size, if you don't have enough knowledge, this step alone will get you stuck.

Other than that...... The only thing Qi Xia didn't figure out was the name "Synodic Moon".

If memory serves, the synodic moon is also called the lunar month, which represents the cycle of the moon's phases, so what does it have to do with this game?

If you have to explain, the sun is "yang" and the moon is "yin", and when the ancients compiled the "lunar calendar", they referred to the waxing and waning of the moon phases.

"So it's really a ...... lunar calendar."

The moon disappeared from complete brightness to disappearance, which was a "reverse" process in the eyes of the ancients, so the initial form of the word "inverse" was taken "屰", and "month" was added, which was regarded as "屰月", which was "Shuo".

And the moon is the brightest, when it is visible when it looks up, the ancients called it "full moon", this is "hope", "Shi Ming, Shi Tian" explains: "Wang, the name of the full moon is also."

Therefore, the "synodic month" refers to the time required to travel from the "new moon" to the next "new moon" or from the "hope" to the next "hope" within 30 days.

Since it depends on the waxing and waning of the moon, these 30 days are called a "month".

The lunar calendar, which is compiled from the waxing and waning of the moon phases, is called the "lunar calendar".

"In other words, this game has already revealed to us the method of comparing sizes from the name......"

Qi Xia slowly narrowed his eyes, feeling that he had been able to control his chaotic brain for the time being.

He looked at the cards on the table, there were only more than thirty cards in total, and each card had two words on it, and at most sixty words.

But if you really need to study it, it will be far more complicated than the playing cards and tarot cards imported from the West, once this game is not called "synodic month", but "solar calendar", the gameplay will be completely different.

Qi Xia sighed that the ground monkey deserves to be a representative of controlling "intelligence", and the strength of the short and fat ground monkey in front of him should be more than that, if it can be included in the command, it will definitely be of great use, but the smarter the person, the more difficult it is to control.

Keeping his eyes on the game in front of him, Qi Xia knew that as long as the monkey could name the person with the highest card when the cards were opened at the end, he would also guess the rules of this game.

The plan went a lot smoother than expected, and this time thanks to Zheng Yingxing's help.

After everyone had given the "secret", the monkey once again asked, "Is there anyone else who needs to bet?" ”

Everyone didn't know the rules, so naturally they didn't have the confidence of Bo Xiao, so they shook their heads one after another.

But the ground monkey slowly raised the corners of his mouth and looked at Qi Xia.

"How?" Qi Xia asked.

"I'm going to raise." The ground monkey said.