Counting nine songs is a winter thing. Start counting nine after the winter solstice. The coldest period of each year is called "counting nine days". "Counting nine" is a verb, just like we count. We start counting from the winter solstice. After counting the first nine days, it will be one. Nine, after counting the second nine days, it will be twenty-nine, and so on, until the ninth nine days are counted, it will be over.
There are several versions of the Song of Counting Nine. The Beijing version is: "One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine does not take action; three ninety-nine and ninety-nine walk on the ice; five and ninety-six nine watch willows along the river; seven and ninety-nine rivers and eighty-nine wild geese come ;Nine-nine plus one-nine, the cattle are everywhere.
The version in Changsha is: "Nine-nine and twenty-nine, don't make a move when you meet (put your hands in your sleeves or pockets); thirty-nine and twenty-seven," Hanging pens (icicles) upside down in front of the eaves; 4936, a pedestrian staying on the road (going home for the Spring Festival); 5945, a poor man dancing in front of the steps (to praise spring and send the God of Wealth); 6954, The dead branches sprouted tender thorns; in the 79th year, I took off my clothes on the sidewalk; in the 89th year, the frog burped in the field; in the 99th year, in the 81st year, I took off my raincoat and put on a bamboo hat.
The Henan version is: "One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine does not make a move; three thousand nine hundred and forty-nine walks on the ice; five nine hundred and sixty-nine shakes hands; seventy-nine and eighty-nine looks up at the willows; ninety-nine poplars fall to the ground; nineteen apricots Flowers bloom;
Different regions have different versions, which also shows the differences in climate in different regions.