Twenty-four solar terms Song agricultural proverbs
Frightened crows, the spring equinox is dry.
Qingming is busy planting wheat, and Grain Rain is busy farming.
Long summer goose feathers live, birds come here.
Mang seeds were shoveled away, but cotton was not harvested from summer to Sunday.
The summer heat is not hot, but the summer heat is in the dog days.
Beginning of autumn is busy playing indigo and sharpening knives and sickles in summer.
The Millennium is busy cutting land, and the autumn equinox turns over the land.
Before the cold dew is cold, the frost has changed.
In the early winter of October, light snow closed the mountain.
At the fork of a snowy river, you can't sail on the solstice in winter.
A slight cold, a severe cold, and then a year.
Twenty-four solar terms agricultural proverbs: children's noodles in spring, milk noodles in winter.
The weather in spring is changeable. Spring comes after the cold winter and before midsummer. At this time, it is hot in the south and cold in the north, and the temperature difference between the north and the south is the largest all year round. Therefore, the cold air in the north and the hot air in the south are often prone to conflict, causing fronts and developing into cyclones. When the cyclone comes, it will rain; The tornado passed and the weather cleared up again. There are the most cyclones in spring, and the weather is changeable, like a child's face, crying and laughing.
The cold wind and dark clouds in winter are terrible, just like the stepmother's face. This is because the north wind prevails in winter, and in Fujian Province, it is a semi-stable polar front, so there are many dark clouds and heavy rains on the sea, and the sky scene is very terrible.
-Fujian Fuqing Pingtan "Peasant Fisherman Congyan"
February is clear and green, and March is clear and barren.
The 24 solar terms are fixed in the solar calendar, not necessarily in the lunar calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day is April 5th in the solar calendar, and the beginning of March in the lunar calendar is all the year round. If you encounter a lunar year with a leap month, it is likely to be in the early February of the lunar calendar. Then, February in the lunar calendar is the weather in April in the solar calendar. March is the weather in May of the solar calendar, which is much warmer than February and March in normal years, so February is clear and the fields are green. Qingming March, the earth has not yet rejuvenated.
—— Guixian County, Guangxi
In Qingming Grain Rain, mice froze to death.
In the solar terms of Qingming Grain Rain, the weather is still very cold, which is the result of the cold wave from the north to the south.
—— Guixian County, Guangxi
Rain, spring and winter are destined to be warm.
According to Chinese custom, the first day of the first lunar month and beginning of spring are considered as the beginning of spring. Beginning of spring is in the middle of the lunar calendar, half a month before the first day of the first lunar month. This half month is the end of the lunar calendar, or winter. This means "two spring and one winter".
According to historical records, the Yangtze River valley is the coldest at the turn of January and February in the solar calendar. Beginning of spring is around February 5th in the solar calendar. The coldest weather in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is coming to an end, and the weather will get warmer. But it is customary to say that it is still the end of winter, so there is this saying.
-Kaifeng, Henan
It thundered before the sting, and the clouds opened for 48 days.
According to legend, it is a period of thunder at the beginning of the year. In fact, we can't generalize, it depends on various places and years. The farther north, the later the first thunder; The drier the year, the later the first thunder. If that year, the southern air mass came very early and strongly, the first thunder could have happened earlier. Since the southern air mass comes from the north, there will naturally be more opportunities for rain in the future, but it may not be 48 days.
-Hunan
Qingming breaks snow, Grain Rain breaks frost.
This is the phenomenon that winter goes and spring comes, and the weather gets warmer. However, the date of ice and snow rupture varies from place to place. The farther north the latitude, the later the ice and snow break. For example, the average frost breaking date in Nanjing is March 18, and in Beijing it is April 13.
—— Changzhou, Jiangsu Province
Anti-spring, frozen and broken tendons.
It is the opposite of spring, which means that it will rain after spring begins. The beginning of February in the solar calendar is beginning of spring, which is the coldest time of the year. It's cold and rainy, so I feel very cold because of the humidity.
-Jimo, Shandong, Taikang, Henan
Folk proverb:
"Farming is irregular and depends on solar terms. In early spring, the sun is turning and the rain is by the river. Frightened crows, the vernal equinox drops dry. Qingming is busy planting millet, and Grain Rain is busy farming. Long summer goose feathers live, birds come here. Everyone was happy when the awn was planted, but cotton could not be found on the summer solstice. The summer heat is not hot, but the summer heat is in the dog days. Beginning of autumn busy seats, summer knife sickle. The Millennium is about to cut land, and there is no field in the autumn equinox. Before the cold dew is cold, the frost has changed. Land is closed in early winter, and Xiaoxue River is closed. Snow became the moon in winter, and the winter solstice lasted for nine days. Xiao Han is busy buying and selling, and Dahan wants to celebrate the New Year. "
In Sichuan, there is also a Song of the Centennial Solar Terms:
"Say you are a child, a dozen lions on the first day of the first month. Silkworm eggs are scared in February, and Qingming graves float in March. In April, rice seedlings are planted in long summer, and in May, Duanyang eats zongzi. Buy a fan in June and burn a master in beginning of autumn in July. August festival is full of sesame seeds, and September Chongyang catches rotten seeds. Wear a coat in cold weather in October and dry a cage in winter. In the twelfth lunar month, I went around to hide from Master. "