Sting, the third of the twenty-four solar terms, the fifteenth day after the "rain", is about March 5 or March 6 in the solar calendar. "The Seventy-Two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order": "The February Festival... All things are shocked, and earthquakes are thunder, so it is called stinging, and it is the sting that scares the worms and walks away. ”
Animals and insects that lie dormant in caves have been hiding in the soil since the beginning of winter, and they do not drink or eat, which is called "sting". As the weather warms up, there is gradually spring thunder, and the "sting" is the day when the heavens wake up the stung animals with thunder.
At this time, most parts of the country entered the spring ploughing season.
A poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu, "GuanTian Jia", describes the scene of the sting season:
The light rain is new, and a thunder sting begins.
The Tian family was idle for a few days, and farming began from then on.
The Song Dynasty poet Chen Yunping wrote in the Mountain House:
The windows are open on all sides, and the wind sends the sea clouds.
A rain of flowers, several stinging thunder.
The above is a Zen flower arrangement
Sting is a feast for florists, at this time, in addition to peach blossoms, burning branches, there are a variety of seasonal flowers, beautiful.
"East wind February Su Causeway Road, trees and peach blossoms between willow flowers." Tu Benyi's "Bottle History Moon Table" says that the peach is the flower lord of February. Cao Dazhang of the Ming Dynasty also has a poem cloud: "The water of Wuling Creek is a little deeper, and the peach blossoms are eager to ask for favors."
During the sting season, a hundred flowers bloom in nature, the spring rain is endless, and the vitality is full of vitality, and you can create a pastoral landscape with a plate and a mirror, which can be transported for thousands of miles. Bowl flowers or tube flowers can also be arranged to express the beauty of the lines of the new shoots. Or create with basket flowers to express the colorful beauty of the hundred flowers in the basket.
The above is the work of Li Lishu
"My greatest understanding of the sting festival is that this is a season when the three suns are beginning, everything is revived, and the vitality is sprouting, and it can awaken people's hearts and rejoice when they see the first birth of grass and trees." Wu Yonggang, the founder of Wuhuadao, believes that this is the time when people's hearts are most full of expectations and motivation.
At this time, small animals also emerge from the soil, and the whole natural world is particularly vivid and spiritual. At this time, the flower arrangement can be mostly green, or represented by flower buds, which is more full of the atmosphere of early spring.
The above is the work of Wu Yonggang
At the time of sting, spring and Jingming, peach blossom red, pear blossom white, yellow warbler chirping, swallow flying. Step out of the outdoors, everywhere the weather is new. If you are idle at home, a cup of tea, a bottle of flowers, the room is full of spring light, which is pleasant.
The above is the work of Wang Guozhong
Thanks: Taiwan's Chinese Floral Professor Li Lishu, Zen Flower Gate Founder Liu Minghua, Wu HuaDao Founder Wu Yonggang, Humanistic Flower Road Founder Wang Guozhong courtesy photo
(Written by reporter Tsai Wei of this newspaper)
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