But what's the reason?
Obviously, you can directly use wood chips to make a box, which is more convenient for surface engraving and hot stamping, but someone ingeniously hollowed out each side of this box. Now to be precise, this is not a box, but six. A closed structure made of wooden plank-shaped boxes.
Moreover, 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 it has other functions?
Before Qi Xia could figure it out, Dihou had already stood up and reached out to snatch the wooden box back. Then he wiped it carefully and checked the corners to make sure there was no damage before putting it back on the table.
"If you want to touch my things in the future, please tell me in advance." Dihou said with a somewhat unhappy expression, "Even if you want to commit suicide, I will give you a knife as soon as possible. Why bother using a box?"
Qi Xia stared at the other person's eyes and slowly revealed a wicked smile.
His bright red face, evil smile, and slightly trembling right hand made him look as weird as a demon, making Earth Monkey couldn't help but lean back.
"Now I'm finally sober..." Qi Xia said, "You just told us that "Frost Descent" is "September 23rd", right? "
"...Yes." Dihou agreed.
Qi Xia also nodded after hearing this. Zheng Yingxiong's question pointed out the most critical point. Now he seems to know how to conduct this "competition".
Part of the fog dissipated, and the hidden knowledge suddenly emerged.
The twenty-four solar terms use neither the solar calendar nor the lunar calendar, but the combined lunar and solar calendar.
So whether you use the solar calendar or the lunar calendar, the dates will change every year. If you want to deduce the numbers on all the cards, there are only two ways you can think of.
First, know exactly a year.
Second, know for sure the exact date of one of the days.
"Traditional festivals" are easy to say, and the "lunar calendar" remains unchanged.
For example, the "Chinese Valentine's Day" in your hand must be the seventh day of July, the "Lantern Festival" is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the "Double Ninth Festival" is the ninth day of September, and the "New Year's Eve" is the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Therefore, if there is a size comparison, it is impossible for the earth monkey to adopt a controversial "Gregorian calendar", otherwise the answer will not convince the public, and the game will become more difficult.
To sum up, if this "comparison" really uses the key point of date, it will inevitably use the relatively fixed "lunar calendar".
The problem now lies in the dates of each "solar term".
Fortunately, Earth Monkey gave the most crucial point - the date of "Frost Descent" is September 23rd.
In this way, there is no need to know exactly which year this is. Even if this year is fictitious, we only need to make inferences based on the information given by the monkey.
Because all the information will be clearly visible, and each solar term is fifteen days apart, all the twenty-four solar terms of this year are already known. At this time, the cards on the table have become one in Qi Xia's eyes. Group numbers.
He looked at the "July 7th" card in his hand, then at the "July 15th" card on the table, and finally at the "May 21st card" in the Earth Monkey's hand.
As long as the earth monkey announces the biggest card after this round, all the rules of this game will disappear.
Qi Xia reached out and wiped the blood on his right face, then raised his head and said, "Monkey, can you continue?"
Earth Monkey found that the man's eyes 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 clear valley in spring, and the summer is full of awns and the summer is hot. The dew in autumn is frosty in autumn, and there is snow in winter and a small cold in winter." With the help of a clear mind, Qi Xia decisively found the sealed knowledge in his mind, "The first half of the year is Saturday. On the 21st, the second half of the year falls on the 23rd of July. There is a difference of 60 days between "End of Heat" and "Frost", so the date of "End of Heat" is July 23rd. "
All the dates in the first half of the year are the 6th and 21st of the lunar month, and the dates in the second half of the year are all the 8th and the 23rd of the lunar month. Plus the Gregorian calendar months, these are the dates that will be used in this game.
Qi Xia finally understood the meaning of what Dihou said before starting the bet.
He said that among the people he met over the years, some had gambling skills but no knowledge, and some had knowledge but no courage, so no one could gamble with him.
This deck of cards indeed requires too many things, and gambling skills alone are far from 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, you will get stuck in this step alone.
In addition...the only thing that Qi Xia didn't figure out was the name "Syrozoic Moon".
If I remember correctly, the synodic moon is also called the lunar month, which represents the cycle of profit and loss of the moon phases. How does it have anything to do with this game?
If you have to explain it, the sun is "yang" and the moon is "yin". When the ancients compiled the "lunar calendar", they referred to the profit and loss of the moon phases.
"So it's really the "lunar calendar"..."
The process of the moon from being completely bright to disappearing was regarded by the ancients as a "reverse" process, so they took the initial form of the word "ni", "屰", and added "月", which was regarded as "屰月". This is "朔".
When the moon is the brightest and can be seen when looking up, the ancients called it "full moon". This is "wang". "Shiming·Shitian" explains: "Wang is the name of the full moon.".
So "lunar month" refers to the time it takes to go from "lunar month" to the next "lunar month", or from "look" to the next "look" within thirty days.
Because it depends on the profit and loss of the moon phase, these thirty days are called a "month".
The calendar compiled through the profit and loss of the moon phases is yin, so it is called the "lunar calendar".
"That is to say, the game's method of comparing sizes has been revealed to us from the very beginning of its name..."
Qi Xia slowly narrowed his eyes, feeling that he could temporarily control his chaotic brain.
He looked at the cards on the table. There were only more than thirty cards in this deck, with two words on each card, and at most more than sixty words.
But if it really needs to be studied, it will be far more complicated than the playing cards and tarot cards introduced from the West. Once the game is no longer called "Syrochronic Moon" but changed to "Solar Calendar", the gameplay will be completely different.
Qi Xia sighed that the Earth Monkey was indeed the representative of controlling "intelligence". Moreover, the strength of the short and fat Earth Monkey in front of him should be more than that. If he could be under his command, he would be of great use, but the smarter the person, the harder it would be to control him.
Focusing on the game in front of him, Qi Xia knew that as long as the monkey could tell the person with the highest card when the cards were finally drawn, he would also be able to guess the rules of this game.
The plan went much smoother than expected, this time thanks to Zheng Yingxiong's help.
After everyone placed the "secret", Earth Monkey asked again: "Does anyone else need to place a bet?"
Everyone didn't know the rules, so naturally they didn't have a big grasp of the situation, so they all shook their heads.
But Dihou slowly raised the corners of his mouth and looked at Qi Xia.
"What?" Qi Xia asked.
"I want to raise the bet." Dihou said.
