Xinhua Times Review: Cultural self-confidence from the Spring Festival| the benefits of spring in the year, and it is time to forge ahead

Yangchun Budze, all things are born of brilliance. As the first of the twenty-four solar terms, Lichun is the beginning of the flow of time and shade in our Chinese spring, summer, autumn and winter, marking the gradual departure of the winter when all things return, and the beginning of the spring when the yang qi rises.

"A year's production is set early, and spring preparation is the most important." Lichun, for farmer friends, a year of ploughing has begun. In the south, early rice will begin to be sown gradually; in the north, including wheat field management, spring ploughing should be arranged early throughout the year. Due to the vast territory, most parts of the mainland do not necessarily recover immediately after spring, especially the crops in the north are still in the ice and snow. However, in the season of the sense of everything, the growth of greenhouse crops after spring is accelerated, and the requirements for water, fertilizer and temperature conditions are higher, both snowproof and antifreeze, and to prevent the sunshine time after spring from becoming longer, the temperature and humidity in the greenhouse increase, and it is necessary to do a good job of ventilation, insect prevention and moisture prevention.

People are diligent in spring and early. The twenty-four solar terms, from the beginning, are closely integrated with agricultural work, and preparing for farming itself is an important theme to celebrate the return of spring to the earth, which is the beautiful character of our agricultural civilization. Winter goes to spring, and labor is reincarnated. I believe that "planting a grain of millet in the spring and reaping ten thousand seeds in autumn" is such a firm belief that "planting melons and getting melons, planting beans to get beans" and "one point of cultivation, one point of harvest." The long-standing, broad and profound agricultural civilization is the root of China's excellent traditional culture and the root of our national character.

It is always new, always new. Every Time Li chun is new, and its history is thousands of years old. The twenty-four solar terms led by Lichun are not "antiques", and our agricultural civilization is not twilight, but is full of vitality in the new form of ecological civilization. Li Chun is active in the expectations of our lives and jumps in our blood. Nature is our clock, we follow nature, respect nature, understand nature, rely on nature, use sweat and hard work to water nature, and naturally give back generously to us. Chinese civilization is a natural path of sustainable development.

The plan of the year lies in the spring, which is not only the law of farmers' farming, but also the law of survival and development of Chinese. Farmers cultivate farmland, teachers cultivate campuses, workers cultivate workpieces, and intellectuals cultivate scientific research, which is the inheritance of Chinese and never ending.

It's spring time again. In many places, there was also the custom of "whipping spring cattle", whether it was "spring beating five or nine exhaustion" or "spring beating six or nine heads", a "beating" word was nothing more than the meaning of persuading mulberry, encouraging farmers, and urging farming. As our civilization gene, in the inheritance of "whipping the spring cow", we spur and continue to surpass ourselves. (Reporter Wang Libin)