Rain | one of the twenty-four solar terms
The day is full of water, the spring is born with faith, and the moisturizer is silent.
Spring belongs to wood, and those who grow wood will also be water. The east wind dissolves and disperses into rain, so the second solar term after spring is rain.
The spring breeze sends warmth, the warmth is still cold, and the rain will rain tomorrow.
Spring rain arrives, and everything lives
Spring has always been the most romantic of the four seasons. The grass is long and the warblers are flying, and the wind is gentle, as if all the good words are used in this season is not exaggerated.
With the arrival of the rainy season, the grass and trees began to sprout, the geese returned to the north, and the earth gradually showed a thriving scene.
Rainy weathering not only indicates an increase in rainfall, but also marks the beginning of a rise in temperature. The farmer proverb said: "Rain has rain and crops are good, and big spring and small spring are a treasure." Rain is the key period for the management of small spring and the preparation of ploughing in large spring, hoeing grass and fertilizing, clearing ditches and burying, and farmers and friends have started a year of agricultural activities step by step.
Rain for three days
An otter sacrifices fish,
The rainy season came, the ice on the surface of the water melted, and the otters began to fish.
Second Waiting for The Wild Goose to Come,
Five days after the rain, the geese began to fly back from the south to the north, and the migratory birds returned home, and it was a new beginning of the year.
Three waiting for grass and trees to sprout,
In another five days, the spring breeze warms up, and the grass and trees begin to sprout with the rising of the yang in the ground. Everything sprouts, the spirit is boosted, and life has a new head.
Rain customs
Rain is a poetic festival, but also a festival full of humanity and imagination. At the beginning of the year, on this day, people in different parts of the north and south of the Tiannanhai beg for smooth health in different forms.
Back to the mother's house
The rain festival is another custom popular in the western Sichuan region. Folk to the rainy season, married daughters have brought gifts back to their mother's home to visit their parents.
Women who have given birth to children must bring gifts such as jars of meat and chairs to thank their parents for their nurturing grace. Women who have not been pregnant for a long time are sewn by their mothers with a pair of red trousers and worn to the close body, which is said to allow them to conceive and give birth as soon as possible.
Take the birthday
The growth of plants is inseparable from the moisture of the rain, the growth of children is also inseparable from the care of parents, rain on this day, the married girl in order to thank the parents for their parenting grace, usually bring gifts and husbands back to the mother's home to send the festival. The son-in-law's gift for the festival is usually a red cotton belt of one foot and two feet long, which is called "receiving life", praying for the "longevity" of the in-laws and the longevity of the hundred years. The typical gift of the daughter's festival is "canned meat": pork feet and snowy soybeans and kelp are stewed in a sand pot, and then the mouth of the jar is sealed with red paper and red rope, thanking the parents for their hard work.
If it is a newlywed son-in-law to send a festival, the in-laws will also give back an umbrella to let the son-in-law go out to run, which can cover the wind and rain, symbolizing the son-in-law's smooth and safe life journey. Simple gifts are exchanged, pinning the good wishes of the family, and the ordinary rain festival has become special because of the warmth of the family.
Bump bye bye
In the folklore of the Rain Festival, dry fathers and dry mothers have a close relationship with healthy growth, and convey the deep love of parents for their children, called "bumping and praying". There is no set goal in advance, and whoever bumps into it is whoever it is.
In the north, "worship and send" is also called "confessing to the family", and in the south, it is mostly called "recognizing the father" and "recognizing the mother". Rainwater festival "worship", meaning "rain and dew moisturizing growth", according to the characteristics of behavior, this is a folk conservation custom.
In the quaint vast Hakka area, you can often see at any time next to ancient trees, wells, temples, and large stones with freshly burned paper money and some remaining unburned candles and firecracker paper cuts on the ground, which are their "dry sons" or "dry daughters" to give them gifts. The Hakka people mostly name boys after "tree life", "aquatic life", "earth life", "stone life", or "shi di" and "fu di" name girls, which is the result of the Hakka worshiping children with hard life to things with aura and spirit.
The choice of natural objects as objects of worship is a long history, and it must have been the original choice. The power of nature is huge and mysterious, and under the support of the concept of "animism", people have developed from worship and awe to their kinship with a pious heart and willing to be willing to be their people. However, whether it is the belief in nature's choice of objects and gifts or the combination of relatives and friends in the neighborhood, it is derived from the original authenticity and the belief in the mysterious power of nature, perhaps, this is the most harmonious way for people and nature to get along, reverence, respect.