I wish Xia'an and the beginning of summer: bid farewell to spring
"The wind blows spring away overnight, and everything is beautiful to welcome summer." At 8:10 on May 5, the beginning of summer is ushered in!
Beginning of Summer, a solar term with a sense of agility, the curtain of summer gently opens. If spring is the season of "birth", then summer is the season of "growth". After the beginning of summer, the temperature rises rapidly, the rainfall increases significantly, and life enters the vigorous growth period. "Everything grows up here."
Solar terms have always been an important part of Chinese traditional culture. They are like some kind of agreement between heaven and man, reminding us at a fixed time what night it is and what we should do. We can also find the fulcrum to divide time year after year and experience the changes of the four seasons. Even if the same solar term spreads in different areas of China, we can still experience differences in temperature, phenology, and diversity of customs. What we can see from this is the rich heritage of Chinese traditional culture.
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Beginning of Summer is a solar term that symbolizes the beginning of summer. "Everything grows up here, so it is called the beginning of summer."
If spring warms up some areas first, then summer is the "Generalized System of Preferences", allowing all things to have an equal opportunity to prosper.
The phenology of the Beginning of Summer described in "Book of Rites" is that crickets chirp, earthworms come out, and king melons grow.
According to the "Book of Rites", "a cricket is also a frog." After the beginning of summer, "the sound of frogs is heard", and the famous "weather forecaster" begins to appear and speak out. However, the "Collection of the Seventy-two Hours of the Moon Order" believes that mole crickets are mole crickets "born in the soil of caves". In fact, regardless of which one is specifically mentioned, after the Beginning of Summer, "singers" from all walks of life began to appear one after another.
In the phenological sequence of singing, coming out, growing, and showing off due to summer, the ancients, with a respectful heart that accommodated and did not offend, enjoyed the prosperous countryside given by heaven and earth, where "the wheat is beautiful, the wind shakes, and the rice is beautiful, the rain pours it." . The beginning of summer is the Youth Day for grass and seedlings.
At the beginning of summer, the area of summer is about 800,000 square kilometers, while the area of spring is about 5.85 million square kilometers.
When is the largest spring area of the year? Not Qingming, not Grain Rain, but Beginning of Summer. To be precise, it is the third season of Beginning of Summer. Therefore, if the solar term is defined by the average temperature, it may be more appropriate to rename the beginning of summer to "peak spring".
During the Mengxia period, people often lamented that "there is nothing to do but spring is gone." But according to temperature standards, the period from Beginning of Summer to Xiaoman is actually the most prosperous period of spring.
A friend said: "Your meteorological standard for summer is too cumbersome. Our standard is 'red and ripe cherries.'" Eat cherries, it's summer. "There is no choice but to say that spring is gone, and the cherry blossoms and bamboo shoots will be preserved in spring." Well, actually I also really like this delicious seasonal standard.
"The beginning of peach blossoms" is spring, and ripe cherries are summer. After all, the conditions of flowers and fruits are more beautiful and lovely than the conditions of temperature.
Sometimes people feel that spring is very short, just as Yu Dafu said: "There is no belief when spring comes, and there is no trace when spring goes. In the blink of an eye, spring will slip by like a flying horse in Peking City. The stove in the house has just been dismantled. It won’t be long before you go, maybe you’ll have to call the arbor builder right away.”
"The spring is late in the north, and the summer is early in the south." Early summer is in the south, but it is still late spring in the north. Although the ancients did not define the length of spring and summer in a precise and quantitative way, the theory of three springs and nine summers is enough to reflect the shortness of spring and the longness of summer.
"Spring is old in the tea-picking songs, and the summer scenery is long in the fragrance of boiled cocoons." "The tea songs are so good and the field songs are so beautiful, and the festival of things is really like a bird passing by." It is touching that the change from tea songs to field songs has already been the alternation of spring and summer. .
A farmer's proverb in the Jianghuai area says: "The wheat is pregnant in Grain Rain, and the wheat in Beginning of Summer is sprouting awns. The wheat is full of ears, and the wheat with awns is on the scene." The countdown to the last month of wheat ripening has entered. "Wheat in April is intoxicating", wheat is the countryside scenery; "wheat is enough for half a year", wheat is the people's refuge.
In a scenic spot, many tourists asked the tour guide: "What is this?" The answer was: "Rapeseed. After the beginning of summer, people will start to harvest." Everyone was very emotional. Usually we only pay attention to the flowers and never pay attention to them. The story of falling behind.
The media’s lens is often focused on rapeseed flowers and rarely on rapeseed. We may be more familiar with rapeseed, but the original intention of farmers to grow it is not for the flowers, but for the seeds. "The south wind blows in April, and the barley turns yellow, and the jujube flowers have not yet fallen, and the tung leaves are growing." The south wind blows in April of the lunar calendar, urging the barley in the fields to gradually turn yellow and ripen. The jujube flowers have not yet fallen, and the sycamore leaves are lush.
On the day of the Beginning of Summer, each family cooks new tea, garnishes it with various colorful fruits, and gives it to relatives and neighbors, which is called Qijia Tea.
It is customary to eat plums on the beginning of summer. People at that time said: "You can eat plums at the beginning of summer, which can make the color beautiful. Therefore, women will do plum gatherings on this day, take plum juice and wine to drink, which is called Zhuse wine. One said that eating plums on this day will prevent summer. "
In the Taihu Lake Basin, the seasonal “three delicacies” in Beginning of Summer are broad beans, bamboo shoots and green plums. "It is customary to eat green plums in the early summer, which will make you feel refreshed and restless all year round." When the plums turn from green to yellow, it is the continuous plum rain season.
After the Beginning of Summer, "Commander Zhu Rong succeeds Fangchun", the weather gradually becomes hotter, embodying the word "fire". The commander here is not the leader who leads the troops to fight, but manages the seasons. Zhurong is the god of fire, and he begins to control the seasons. People either enjoy summer or suffer from summer, all because of the word "fire". "Not only is spring beautiful and summer is beautiful, living with flowers and plants is life." There is no need to be afraid, just experience nature with a happy heart. Spring is a good time, and summer is also a good time.
"Don't hate the sun, make your ambition free from anger." In summer, we don't hate the sun, cultivate the word "nurture", be more cultivated, and live a summer without anger.
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The ink in early summer is a little light; the human world is very beautiful when I write it.
At this time, everything is in its most beautiful appearance, attending the opening ceremony of summer.
Whether the cherries are red and the plums are sour; the pomegranates are in full bloom and the plantains are green; or the lake is gurgling and the courtyard is dyed green, it makes people infinitely happy. No wonder the ancients said, "There is no need to regret when the beauty is gone, the summer trees are gloomy." A decent person."
Yes, spring is a good time, and summer is also a good time. Each of the twenty-four solar terms is unique. It has the beauty of heaven and earth in the order of the four seasons, and it is also the Chinese wisdom in the long river of time. For many years, we have followed the footsteps of the seasons, followed the trend, and farmed according to the seasons, so as not to miss the farming season and have good harvests. Today, it is the most wonderful part of "Chinese romance" and the cultural confidence flowing in the genes of every Chinese.
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