The east wind thawed and scattered into rain. Like a light cloud covering the moon, like a flowing wind back to the snow. One night after the spring rain passed, the thousands of furrows turned green. At 43:00 on February 19, the "rain" of the solar terms was greeted.
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When the snow begins to melt
Author | Shen Fuyu
Excerpt from Time: The Chinese's Solar Terms
The snow on the hillside melts, meandering, and down the river, the thick layer of ice on the surface of the water suddenly crumbles, and the fish squeeze between the cracks in the crushed ice, as if they are frolicking with ice on their backs.
The otter stretched out and came out of the hole in the root of the tree. First he looked at the river bank and suddenly jumped into the water. The otter seems to have a deep reverence for the nature that has given it food. The carp, which had just been frolicking, suddenly became the "sacrifices" of otters, one by one, neatly arranged on the shore.
The rain arrived.
The oblique wind blew the drizzle, blowing over the riverbank, blowing through the fields, blowing through the fence wall in front of the old house, all the way over, cauliflower, apricot blossom, plum blossom, the second opening. In the high sky, the joy of the return of the geese could be faintly heard.
In the early morning of the "rain", the sky has not yet brightened, and the fog has entangled the figures on the country road into a hazy and mysterious way. The young mother, holding the sleepy-eyed child, stood by the roadside early. The companion puppy drilled between its legs and feet, barking low, inexplicably excited. The rooster in the distance began to announce.
When the first passerby passed, the mother walked head-on and asked the child to kowtow to him and recognize him as a dry father. This passerby will immediately agree with joy. The mother took out the wine, vegetables, incense candles and bamboo arrows that he had prepared and handed them to him, asking him to go back and shoot the unknown doom for the child with the arrows. Such accidentally bumped relatives can often walk around each other for a lifetime.
If the opportunity is not satisfactory, or there is a deeper sustenance for the future of the child, the young parents will also choose a completely unexpected "dry daddy" for the child. "Dry Daddy" could be weird stones, old trees, clear well water. Stones symbolize solidity, large trees symbolize longevity, and well water symbolizes smoothness.
In addition, cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep can all become the "righteous fathers" of children. After that, this animal, favored by fate, will live a slightly decent life. People can no longer slaughter it, and they must give it a ceremonial death when it dies. People are devout and make love to all things of nature, believing that all of this in nature has a special divine power that will help their children on the road to an unknowable future.
In the rain, and in all days with the same devotion, man and nature coexist in harmony without any disagreement. People love each other in this peaceful world.
On this day, the newly married son-in-law will present two rattan chairs wrapped around a red belt of one foot and two feet to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and express his gratitude to them for raising his wife to adulthood. His father-in-law and mother-in-law would give him an umbrella in return, so that he could shield him from the wind and rain when he went out for his wife and children.
On the day of the rain, people in many places put glutinous rice in a pot and stir-fry, using how many glutinous rice flowers burst out to divinate the abundance of a year's rice harvest.
However, the folks I know well do not care much about the results of this divination, and popcorn is mostly just a sweet and delicious food. In the days after the rain, they often grabbed a handful in their mouths before going to the ground, chewed it, and came to the field, humming vague songs in their throats, watering the wheat fields, sowing early rice, pruning fruit trees, finding a sunny plot for mulberry seedlings...
Rain and three weathers
Once the otter sacrifice fish | the Spring River thaws, the otters enter the water to catch fish, and the fish is placed on the shore to worship before eating.
The second waiting for the wild geese to come | the spring warmed up, and the geese in the south began to migrate, and successively flew back to the north to resettle their lives.
The three seasons of grass and trees sprout| the spring rain is as expensive as oil, the grass and trees are moistened, and the young shoots are gradually drawn out, and the greenery of the heart covers the earth.
Rain and folklore
【Busy farming】
With the arrival of the rainy season, the cold and snowy winter in most parts of the country has passed, and the rainfall has begun and gradually increased, which has an important impact on agricultural production. The farmer proverb said: "The rain has rain and the crops are good, and the big spring and the small spring are a treasure." In the south, the rain festival is known as the "arable weather", and agricultural activities such as spring ploughing, spring irrigation, sowing, seedlings, fertilization, antifreeze, and grafting of fruit trees will be carried out one after another.
【Diligence and health】
With the increase of rainfall, the humidity increases, which is easy to plague the spleen and stomach, so we must pay attention to the maintenance of the spleen and stomach during this period. Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty said: "It is advisable to eat porridge in spring." "Remind us that we should drink more porridge in the spring, which is convenient for absorption, but also can nourish the spleen and stomach, and go to turbidity." In addition, pay attention to the warmth of the legs and feet, use less cold water, and eat less cold food.
【Back to the Mother's House】
Huiniangya is a custom popular in the western Sichuan region. In the rainy season, the married daughters have brought gifts back to their mother's home to visit their parents and thank their parents for their nurturing grace. The son-in-law should bring cans of meat, chairs and other gifts to send a festival to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, called "receiving life", to express his gratitude to his father-in-law and mother-in-law who have worked hard to raise their daughters to adulthood.
【Bump bye】
In some places, the rain festival is a very humane day. In western Sichuan, at dawn in the morning, some young women stand on the side of the road with their children in their arms, waiting for the first pedestrian to pass in front of them. When someone passes by, both men and women, young and old, will stop each other, let the young children kowtow and send, and give each other a dry son or dry daughter, called "bumping and sending", hoping that the child can grow up healthily.
Rain and Winter Olympics
CCTV News's "Theory of Relativity" column interviewed Long Jiangbo, director of the short film countdown to the twenty-four solar terms of this Winter Olympic Games. Where does the inspiration for the stunning audience come from? What is the dragon guide's solar terms manuscript? What exactly is the "truth" he wants to tell? Can't wait to know the answer of the small partner, come and poke the video
Rain whispers
A gust of apricot blossom wind blows, it is when the rain falls in the spring.
The animals wake up, they perceive the spring air, the predation of the water, the north return of the wind;
The grass and trees are alive, after a long time of waiting, ushering in the moisture of rain and dew, and can't wait to be green and tender with joy;
Spring flowers bloomed, a puff of smoke and rain apricot blossoms cold, although the wind was steep, but they were dotted and bloomed, softening the dry branches...
Man, too, stretches out. After surviving the long winter, waiting for the vitality of spring, the mood became moist and lush, and various expectations for life sprouted.
"Living in this precious human world, human beings are as happy as plants, and love is as happy as rain." In the middle of winter in the past, everything we have experienced, whether it is happiness or sorrow, should be returned to yesterday at this moment, and with hope to meet the spring full of infinite possibilities.
Because there is spring, we forgive all the wind and snow, and covet that everything will get better;
Because there is spring, we find a proper reason to escape from the busy "worldly affairs", return to nature, and settle down.
Wait for the spring rain to take care of, live up to the time and live up to the qing.
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