The legend of summer solstice: a short story about summer solstice.
Earlier, a family raised a girl. This girl is not only handsome in appearance, virtuous and cheerful in character, but also unparalleled in sewing skills. He cuts clothes without measuring them. As long as the wearer stands in front of her, let her have a look, whether it is cutting clothes, pants, skirts, robes, scissors, click a few times, clothes, pants, skirts and robes are all cut out. You don't even have to stretch your shoes. Cutting grey cloth and sewing are extremely fast. I saw her wearing a long silk thread to shine on the sun, and a silver needle sewed the silk thread on the cloth. The old man successfully sewed a dress with only one bag of cigarettes. It is even more remarkable to say that it is embroidery. When others embroider, please ask someone to spread the flower pattern and stick it on the cloth blank, and embroider it one by one. She doesn't need a flower pattern at all. The flower patterns she embroidered are all alive, birds flying in the sky, animals running on the ground, fish swimming in the river and flowers in the flower pond. As long as she looks at it, she will embroider it stitch by stitch. The old lady only needs a bowl of tea to embroider these paintings.
This girl is clever, so her parents named her Qiaojie. Qiaojie became famous as soon as she broke up. It's just that Qiaojie grew up to be fifteen, and the suitors crowded up, and the matchmaker came and went, breaking the threshold of her family. A good girl is raised at home, and people come to be matchmakers. This is because people need a good daughter-in-law at home. Qiaojie's parents want to choose a good son-in-law for their daughter among these matchmakers. There are naturally two criteria for choosing, one is that the family is better and the other is that people are better. Choose to choose, choose the home of the rich Zhao Man. This wealthy Zhao Man family is rich and expensive, and there are many mules and horses. The family will not say it; His son is also handsome and can make progress in reading. This family is good, so is the son-in-law. This must be a wonderful marriage. Therefore, it is the husband, the family, the inquiry and the test. I think this is a good idea under all circumstances, so I made an appointment and married the Zhao family.
On the third day of marriage, Qiaojie should be accompanied by her son-in-law. This time, the custom at home is that it has been three days since the wedding, and what the girl needs to care about in the new family environment; This custom is formed because the husband-in-law is dissatisfied with his daughter-in-law and has the need to express himself. Unexpectedly, the Zhao family has new requirements for their daughter-in-law. When Qiaojie wanted to get on the bus, she politely asked her father-in-law:
"Dad, do you have any instructions for your daughter-in-law?"
My father-in-law said, "Catch up with the sun and bring back ten socks."
Qiaojie asked her mother-in-law, "Mom, what do you want to say to your daughter-in-law?"
Mother-in-law said, "Catch the sun and bring back ten pairs of shoes."
Qiaojie asked her husband again, "Is there anything else for my husband?"
The husband replied, "Catch the sun and bring back ten packs of cigarettes."
The story of summer solstice
Qiaojie had to promise. She immediately took out all the cloth, needles, thread, knives and scissors needed in the car, started cutting in the car and rushed to her door. Ten pairs of socks, ten pairs of shoes and ten tobacco bags were cut. When she arrived at her parents' house, she started working at full speed without taking a sip of tea or a bite of rice. The mother loves her daughter dearly and sends her tea, but her daughter can't drink a mouthful, and she is still immersed in needlework. Dad sympathized with his daughter and brought her food, but her daughter couldn't eat a bite and still buried herself in sewing. Mother asked her neighbor's sister and aunt to help Qiaojie sew, but Qiaojie refused, because both her in-laws and her husband asked her to do it alone, so she had to do it alone, and she could not ask others for help.
On this day, the sun seems to run faster than before, and soon ran from the top of Dongshan Mountain to the top of Nanshan Mountain, and soon ran from the top of Nanshan Mountain to the top of Xishan Mountain, and was about to fall from the top of Xishan Mountain to the back of Xishan Mountain. The mother counted the needlework for her daughter, and only managed to make seven pairs of socks, seven pairs of shoes and seven tobacco bags. The rest of the work is catching up with the sunset, saying that nothing can be done.
Qiaojie was so anxious that she began to cry. She kept sewing while crying.
At this moment, a white-haired old woman came in. She asked Qiaojie, "Baby, why are you crying?"
Qiaojie told her that her husband's family asked her to make ten pairs of socks, ten pairs of shoes and ten tobacco bags in one day. Grandma listened and said, "Baby, don't worry, I'll help you. You lend me one of your red silk threads. "
Qiaojie drew a thread from the embroidered red silk thread and handed it to Grandma, saying, "Grandma, you can smoke as much as you like."
The old woman took the silk thread and held it tightly in her hand. The other hand grabbed the silk spool and threw it into the air. I saw the silk thread shaft flying in the air, flying out of the door, flying into the sky, and flying to the sun with a silk thread as light as a feather. When the silk thread shaft flew to the sun, it turned around the sun and tied the sun firmly. Qiaojie turned to look at Grandma. They haven't seen each other for a long time, but the red silk thread is in her own hands. In other words, the sun is held by Qiaojie like a kite. The sun sets slowly in the west, and Qiaojie gently pulls the line, and the sun floats back to the east like a kite. In this way, the evening on the earth became afternoon again.
The day was extended, and Qiaojie had a chance to finish ten pairs of socks, ten pairs of shoes and ten tobacco bags. She is still rushing to do the work. When Qiaojie made the ninth pair of socks, the ninth pair of shoes and the ninth tobacco pouch, the sun once again set on the edge of the western hills. Qiaojie gently tied the thread, the sun rose from the edge of the western hills, and the night became afternoon again. Qiaojie is still doing her work with a flying needle.
By the time the sun sets again, Qiaojie has successfully completed the work of ten pairs of socks arranged by her father-in-law, ten pairs of shoes arranged by her mother-in-law and ten cigarette bags arranged by her husband, and delivered them to her father-in-law and husband on time. My parents-in-law praised Qiaojie as a good wife, and her husband praised Qiaojie as a good wife. They all want Qiaojie to do more and more beautiful needlework for them.
However, when the sun was halfway down, the red silk thread in Qiaojie's hand floated gently, and Qiaojie herself seemed to be held up by a giant hand and floated gently. The sun went down, and the sky in the west was full of beautiful rosy clouds. Qiaojie was dragged by the red silk thread to fly to the western sky. The husband first found Qiaojie flying, so he ran over and caught Qiaojie's nepotism. My father-in-law also found out and ran to grab my son's skirt. Mother-in-law also found out and ran to grab the old man's skirt. My parents-in-law and husband failed to catch Qiaojie, but they floated with her. But Qiaojie's nepotism couldn't support so many people, so it broke with a bang. This is what the folk fable says: "If you want to go to heaven, you will be dragged by shit.".
But the beautiful and clever Qiaojie did not hesitate to fly to Cai Xia, and gradually merged into Xia Guang.
This day is the solstice of summer.
The origin of summer solstice solar terms;
Solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms. In the 7th century BC, the shadow of the sun was measured by civil soil gauge, thus the summer solstice was determined. According to "Zunxian Manuscript", "The sun arrives in the north, the days are long and the shadows are short, so it is called the summer solstice. At best, it is excellent. " On the day of summer solstice, the sun directly reaches the northernmost part of the year, almost directly to the Tropic of Cancer (23 26' north latitude). The daytime in the northern hemisphere is the longest in the whole year, and the farther north it is, the longer it is.
For example, the daily length of Haikou in Hainan is a little more than 13 hours, Hangzhou is 14 hours, Beijing is about 15 hours, and Mohe in Heilongjiang can reach 17 hours. At the same time, for the Tropic of Cancer and its north, the summer solstice is also the day with the highest sun height at noon in a year. In Beijing, the height of the sun is as high as 73 32' at noon from summer to Sunday. On this day, the northern hemisphere received the most solar radiation, almost twice as much as the southern hemisphere. At this time, the southern hemisphere is in the middle of winter.
Astronomical experts say that the solstice in summer is the turning point of the sun, and then it will go back. After the summer solstice, the direct point of the sun gradually moved southward, and the days in the northern hemisphere began to shorten gradually. For the Tropic of Cancer and its northern area, after the summer solstice, the height of the noon sun began to decrease day by day. There is a folk saying that "eating noodles in summer makes the day shorter", and Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote in "Beichi Summer" that "the sun is cloudy and the night leaks from now on".
In ancient China, the summer solstice was divided into three phases: "The first phase of staghorn dissolution; Second, wait for cicadas to start singing; Third-class Pinellia ternata. " Although elk and deer belong to the same family, the ancients thought they belonged to yin and yang. The deer's horn faces forward, so it belongs to Yang. On the solstice of summer, Yin Qi was born, and Yang Qi began to decline, so the front antlers began to fall off. However, the elk is cloudy, so it falls off at the corner from winter to Sunday; After the solstice of summer, the male cicada fluttered and sang because of Yin Qi's feeling; Pinellia ternata is a shade-loving herb, named after it was born in swamps or paddy fields in midsummer.
It can be seen that in the hot summer, some yin-loving creatures began to appear, while positive creatures began to decline.
China folks divide 15 days from summer to the future into three "hours", usually the first three days, the middle five days and the last seven days. During this period, the temperature in most parts of China was high, the sunshine was sufficient, the crops grew rapidly, and the physiological and ecological water demand was high. At this time, the precipitation has a great influence on agricultural output, and there is a saying that "raindrops are worth tens of millions in summer solstice". In general, the precipitation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huanghuai area can generally meet the requirements of crop growth.