Source: People's Daily News
One of the twenty-four solar terms
Sting "Spring thunder, all things grow"
"A burst of rain, several stinging thunder", "China Astronomical Calendar" shows that at 16:54 Beijing time on March 5, will usher in the "sting" festival. At this time, the "number nine cold days" ended, the spring warm flowers blossomed, everything recovered, and officially entered the mid-spring season of "red into peach blossoms, green to willow leaves new".
During the sting season, there began to be thunder, and the dormant bugs heard the thunder and woke up. "Spring thunder, all things long", spring is not far away. Do you feel the breath of spring around you?
Sting "The hoe doesn't stop"
Sting, is the third of the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, known in ancient times as "Qi Sting". At this time, the weather is warmer, and the spring thunder begins to sound, waking up the dormant winter insects. Hence the name Sting.
After the "sting", the temperature and ground temperature are constantly rising, the soil thaws, and the spring wind and rain change, so since ancient times, China's farmers have identified the "sting" as the beginning of spring plowing. "The tianjia is idle for a few days, and the cultivation begins from here", and since then, the spring ploughing production in the whole country has gradually unfolded from south to north, and the agricultural proverbs such as "the peasant family has no idle people, the hoe does not stop" and "the sting does not rake the ground, just like steaming away the steamed buns" vividly and vividly interpret the importance of this festival.
And you who are struggling for your dreams, are you also ready to continue to do your best? Please believe: as long as you work hard, the far away you can dream of reaching, one day your footsteps will also arrive.
Sting three times
In ancient Times, China divided the sting into three seasons: one waited for Tao Shihua, the second waited for Cang Gengming, and the third waited for the eagle to turn into a dove. "Peach Shihua", peach, the flower color is red, is the beginning of the moon. When spring is warm, the peach dies and burns its glory; "Cang Gengming", Geng, Huang Li also. Yellow orioles feel the warm air of spring, flutter their wings and sing; "eagles turn into doves", at this time the eagle falcons fly back to the north to breed, the Central Plains are common doves, the ancients thought that the doves were "transformed" by eagles.
Sting folk customs
In the folk, it is known that it is customary to eat pears in shock. The meaning is to separate from pests and stay away from disease.
In addition to eating pears on this day, there is also a custom of offering white tigers. In Chinese folklore, the white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong, and every year it will come out to forage for food on the day of the sting, so in order to protect themselves, everyone sacrifices the white tiger on the day of the sting. The so-called sacrifice of the white tiger refers to the worship of the white tiger drawn on paper to get rid of the entanglement of right and wrong.
Stinging Health
Although the weather is warmer during the sting season, the temperature changes greatly, especially the temperature difference between night and noon is quite large, and everyone should pay attention to keeping warm in their clothing.
In the spring, all things should be revived, should go to bed early, get up early, walk slowly, stretch your limbs in the spring light, breathe fresh air, in order to conform to the natural laws of spring sun, make your spirit happy, and at the same time enhance your physique, improve the body's disease resistance, and maintain good health.
Spring thunder and thunder, everything is full of life
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