旧暦で 今日から１０月 別名小春

【倉賀野町の鯉池】

　今日は１１月5日ですが、明治５年まで使われてた旧暦では１０月１日です。ですから今宵は新月で月が出ません。中秋の名月(旧暦８月１５日)が毎年必ず仏滅であるように、この日も毎年仏滅と決まってます。仏滅の翌日は大安なので明日は大安です。

　ところで、旧暦の１０月のことは別名「小春」ということから、今日のように日中穏やかな春のような気候は「小春日和」です。しかし、朝は放射冷却により気温がかなり下がるので温かくして過ごしたいものです。

　ご覧の通り、私の住む倉賀野町の鯉池にはカムチャッカ半島などユーラシア大陸からと想われる渡り鳥の鴨が数千キロの海を飛び越え、すでに１００羽ほど飛来してます。初めて日本へ来た雛もいます。私が口笛を吹いたら寄ってきました。

Dear my friends overseas

 Today is November 5th in the solar calendar, but it is October 1st in the lunar calendar which was used until the 5th year of the Meiji era (1872). So the moon will not rise tonight. Just as the harvest moon (August 15th of the lunar calendar) is always annihilated day (unlucky day) every year, this day is also decided to be annihilated every year. The day after the annihilated day is lucky day, so tomorrow is lucky day that means Taian in our tongue.

 By the way, since October of the lunar calendar is also known as "Small spring", the climate like today's mild spring is called "Indian summer". However, in the morning, the temperature drops considerably due to radiative cooling, so please stay warm.

 As you can see, migratory ducks which is thought to be from the Eurasian continent such as the Kamchatka Peninsula, has flown across the sea for thousands of kilometers in this carp pond in Kuragano-town where I live, and about 100 ducks have already arrived. Some chicks came here in Japan for the first time since their birth. When I whistled, they came by.

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