A little rain is as moist as a crisp Spring benefit
Text/Zhu Dianfeng
The 7989 Rain Festival, it is the wet clothes of the beginning of the year again. In the blink of an eye, the rain festival came with a hazy face.
What is rain? The ancients said: "The east wind thaws, the ice and snow are scattered into water, turned into rain, so it is called rainwater." "The rain has three seasons: "one waits for the otter to sacrifice the fish; the second waits for the wild geese to come; and the third waits for the grass and trees to sprout." "That is to say, the otters began to fish, placing the fish on the shore as if they were sacrificed first and then eaten. Five days later, the geese migrating south set off to fly back to the north. In another five days, in the spring rain of "silent moisturizing", the grass and trees began to pull out young shoots with the rise of yang qi in the ground. At this time, the cold is already frozen, and the earth has slowly returned to spring since then, gradually showing a thriving scene.
This year, the rain falls on the seventh day of the first lunar month (February 18 in the solar calendar). The rain festival is always mixed with the first month of the lunar calendar, in the middle of the intersection of 7989. When the spring is long, the rain festival is before the end of the month; when the spring is short, the rain festival is around the Spring Festival. After the rainy season, the temperature in most parts of the mainland reaches more than 0 °C. The average daily temperature of the Huanghuai Plain has reached about 3 °C, the average temperature in Jiangnan is around 5 °C, the temperature in South China is above 10 °C, and the average temperature in North China is still below 0 °C. At this time, the weather is uncertain, hot and cold, warm and cold, which is one of the seasons with the most cold tides throughout the year. Therefore, in the northern region, it is not that there is no snow after the rain festival, but from now on, the rain has increased and the snow has decreased. If it snows, it will snow, commonly known as "Baocyal Water", which means that in the next 100 days or so, there will be a heavy rain. The more snow falls at this time, the more rain it will rain at that time.
Rain gives birth to the growth of everything in nature, and it is also accompanied by the prosperity of human culture. In the eyes of the literati and inkers of the past generations, rain is an amorous festival, and their poetry chapters for writing rain are innumerable. Du Fu yin"Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening." Dive into the night with the wind, and the moisturizer is silent. "Han Yusong" The rain on the sky street is as moist as crisp, and the grass color is close but not there. The most is the benefit of spring of the year, which is better than the smoke and willow full of imperial capital. "White Jade Toad Yong" on the first day of the plum blossoms, a stream of spring rain fragrance. Yan Fang looked for his hometown, and the bee had already eaten the House. "Lu You Song" Laxue Rui I Mai, Spring Rain Jia My Valley. The old farmer had nothing to ask for, and everything was enough. "Leaf fungus singing" A plough full of spring rain, a hint of shaking a sunny wind. Happy to be happy, its only one. ”
Zheng Banqiao inscription: "Spring wind bold to comb willows, night rain to hide people to run flowers", extremely said that the spring wind is drumming, "bold" will be willow branches and branches "combed" into a gentle beauty like hair, spring rain moisturizing, prompting the blossoming of the earth flowers blooming. Why does Zheng Banqiao say that the spring wind "combs" willows instead of "combing" trees such as locust, tsubaki and elm? Perhaps it is because "the willow has eight virtues": one is born indiscriminately, two are easy to breed and grow, three are pre-spring and green, four are deep in winter, five qualities are desirable, six are tough, seven spike leaves can be cured, eight years old can cut branches for salary, and the good tools of covered catalpa wood are also good. Zheng Banqiao's statement that the night rain "run flowers" corresponds to the "twenty-four flower trade winds". Flower trade wind is a kind of solar term, referring to the flowers that bloom in a certain solar term, because it is the wind that should come from the flowering period, so it is called flower trade wind. From the small cold to the valley rain, there are 24 seasons in the 8 solar terms, each of which has some kind of flower buds opening, and people choose flowers as representatives, called the flower trade winds in this festival, which means the wind that brings flowering news. The three flower trade winds in the rainy season are: one waiting for cauliflower, two waiting for apricot blossoms, and three waiting for plum flowers. Therefore, Lu You also has the verse "Xiaolou listens to the spring rain one night, and sells apricot blossoms in the Ming Dynasty in the deep alley".
Successive generations of farmers have always paid attention to the smooth wind and rain, and they are most aware of the preciousness of good rain, so they attach great importance to rain and are full of beautiful expectations for it: "Rain has rain crops, spring and spring are a small treasure." "Rain has rain crops are good, barley wheat grains are full." "A spring rain and a scoop of oil, wheat autumn and autumn harvest.". Because "spring rain is as expensive as oil", rain in the rainy season indicates that a good crop can grow and there will be a good harvest. Farmers predict the later weather according to whether there is precipitation in the days before and after the rain festival: "Rain has rain and a hundred shades", "Rain falls to the ground, overcast and sinks to the valley rain". According to the temperature level, the cold and warm in the later period are predicted: "cold rain, warm sting", "warm rain, cold sting". Predict the later weather according to the wind: "Rain rises in the east wind, and there will be rain in the day" and so on. These agricultural proverbs, in an agrarian society where science and technology are not developed, are a kind of summary of the peasants' understanding of nature, and a kind of summary of the farmers' understanding of the impact of climate on wintering crops in long-term production practice.
In the earliest surviving agronomic monograph on the mainland, the Book of Victory, it is said: "The apricots began to flourish, and the light soil was cultivated and the weak soil was cultivated, and the apricot blossoms fell and the cultivation was resumed." "The sunset is bright as a brocade, and the spring rain is as fine as silk." "A plough is pouring rain, and the farmer's village is full of time." The agricultural activities in the rainy season in Shandong and the northern region are still expressed in a smooth song: "rain" rain increases temperature, and the land in north China gradually thaws. Grasp the hoe of winter wheat and make a layer to hoe a layer. Barley sunflowers and castor, topling sown yields abundantly. The water in the river is quickly stored and irrigated, and it is not possible to water it without waiting for the flow to be stopped, and the water well water is double matched, and the water is guaranteed when it is used. Springfield fertilizer is shipped early, and the rake cannot be stopped. The seeds of the cotton fields are prepared properly, and the ground temperature is raised and sown in a timely manner. Sweet potato seedlings are scored early, and the kang and pit are dug. The orchard is carefully managed, pruned and scraped to loosen the soil. Cows, donkeys, mules and horses should be fed, and spring ploughing and spring planting are like tigers. Fish farming should use abandoned land, burn bricks and tiles to dig fish pits, combined with the accumulation of fat whole fish ponds, pond deep strong fish food increase, water depth in order to raise large fish, upper, middle and lower fish three layers.
It has to be said that in the rainy season, farmers will choose a good weather without wind, take the grain seeds and cotton seeds to the sun to dry, so that the seeds can remove moisture and the germination rate is high. The seeds are in the warm sunshine, dreaming of germinating in the soil soon.
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