"Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening
Dive into the night with the wind, moisturizing silently"
Dear art fans
Remember
Opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics
Twenty-four solar terms countdown to stunning the world?
Countdown to the first act
It started with the rain
Now the rain is really coming
A solar term has a sign of a solar term
A solar term has a connotation of a solar term
A solar term has a solar temperament
So, what is the temperament of rain?
Xiaoyi felt
In a nutshell
Imaginative
Full of vitality
Why?
Let's get from the rainy three weather and rainwater folklore
Look for answers~
Rain · Three waits
What are the three seasons of rain? One waits for "otter sacrifice fish", the second waits for "Hong Yan to come", and the third waits for "grass and trees sprout". The Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Shu wrote a poem "Yong Twenty-Four Qi Poems rain in the middle of the moon":
Spring enters February, and the flowers are full of shadows.
The clouds are light and heavy, and the scenery is light and thick.
Sacrifice fish Yingpu Island, return to the geese over the mountain peak.
The rain washes the spring, and Hirata has seen the dragon.
Coincidentally, the rain is in it. There are "sacrificial fish" in the poem, and there are "returning geese" Yes, but what about the "grass and trees sprouting" that can be said? Savoring it is quietly flowing between the lines of the words, in the "light and thick scenery", in front of the "colorful shadows"...
Otter sacrifice fish
Source: CCTV "Man and Nature" program
How many meanings do you ask me about "otter sacrificial fish"? There are a few meanings. Originally, it referred to the fact that otters often fished and displayed at the water's edge, as if displaying offerings and sacrifices, but later it was extended to list the facts and pile them into documents. Otters are masters of hunting, look super cute, can stand upright like a person, two front paws can be closed, after catching the fish will be placed on the shore one by one, as if swinging fish for the heavens, so it is figuratively called "otter sacrifice fish".
In the north, fishing usually begins after the "otter sacrifice fish". This situation does not exist when the weather is warm in the south. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin, a northerner, was shocked that the locals did not need to start fishing after the spring otter festival when he lived in Guilin, Guangxi, and wrote down the "foreign custom" of "no otter sacrifice, but only pigs" in the Five Laws of "Strange Customs". Ironically, Li Shangyin never imagined that he would one day be called an "otter sacrifice fish". Because he likes to use classics in his poems, one allusion after another, one story after another, so that posterity can read it with clouds and mist, "alone hate no one as Zheng Zhi", he gave him this nickname.
Hongyan came
Photo by Li Xuefeng Source: WeChat public account of China Photographers Association Network
"Hong geese come" means that the geese fly north. What, the geese have returned to the north again? The first weather of the little cold festival in the waxing moon is "Yanbei Township", so how many times do the geese return? For this question, modern people have given a scientific answer, believing that it is a phenomenon caused by the different migratory habits of migratory birds of different species and regions. However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty literary scholar Gan Bao did not think so. He said that the geese who return to the north in the cold of the waxing moon are the big geese and the parents of the geese, and the geese who return to the north in the rain of the first month are the little geese and their children. I have to say that this brain hole is a little bigger, but behind the seemingly outrageous explanation is the virtue of the Chinese nation of "the elderly first, the young after" respecting the elders, modesty and courtesy.
The grass and trees sprout
"Grass and trees sprout", that is, grass and trees begin to germinate. Dongfeng rain grass and trees new, spring rain passing by the place, flowers and grasses, buds with buds, buds, germination is not lively. "Last night it rained, providence sue group. What is the most prophetic, the void grass to fight out. The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao's "After the Spring Rain" vividly depicted such a "spring grass germination map".
Rain · folk custom
Source: China Folk Writers Association WeChat public account
Rain is a magical festival, and the folk customs formed on this day are very interesting. Whether it is the daughter who is married back to her mother's home, or the young child to confess to her relatives, or perhaps the custom of "occupying rice" to predict the harvest of the year, it is full of imagination and places good wishes and hopes on people's lives.
Go back to your mother's house
Source: China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network
On this day of rain, it is a custom popular in the western Sichuan region to marry a daughter who returns to her mother's home. We know that in ancient times, daughters generally could not return to their mother's house casually after they were married. In order to soothe the longing of parents and children, the ancients set up some festivals to return to their mother's home and passed them down as customs. During the Rainy Season, the married daughter will bring gifts back to her mother's house to visit her parents. If you have children, you should also bring a kind of canned meat, that is, a clay pot stewed pig's trotters, thanks to the parents' nurturing grace. On this day, the husband and wife are accompanied, and it is also the day of the son-in-law, and the son-in-law wants to send gifts, usually two rattan chairs, which are wrapped around a 4-meter-long red belt, called "receiving life", which means to wish the father-in-law and mother-in-law a long life of 100 years. If it is a newlywed son-in-law, the father-in-law and mother-in-law should give back an umbrella, which means to help him shield him from the wind and rain and bless the son-in-law with peace in his life. Year after year, the feelings for each other deepened in this coming and going. Although there is basically no restriction on returning to the mother's home now, the custom of returning to the mother's home with rain is still full of vitality in some places, probably not giving up this human touch.
Rapapa
Photo by Luo Huaikun Source: CCTV
"Labaobao" is also a custom in some areas of western Sichuan. "Bao Bao" is a dialect, meaning "dry daddy". On this day of rain and rain, parents will take their children to the side of the road at the mouth of the village, or to the lively place of the market, to find an ideal person for their children, to worship as a dry father. The rain festival pulls the dry father because "the rain and dew moisturize and grow easily", which is intended to borrow the blessing of the dry father to ensure the healthy growth of the children and pin the beautiful hopes of the parents. Bye-to-do, different places have different exquisite. In some places, it is "whoever hits is who", which is called "bumping into the mail". You will see that in the morning, when the sky is just dawn and the fog is still foggy, young mothers will wait on the side of the road with their dolls, waiting for the first person to pass in front of them. Once someone passes by, whether male or female, old or young, stop each other, and prostrate themselves according to the child. In other places, animals, plants, landscapes, and even a well, a stone, and other natural things with the atmosphere of "gods" are chosen to be sent, which is called "choosing things to worship". When the writer Shen Congwen described the folk customs of western Hunan Province, he recorded: "A tree or a strange stone contains thirty or fifty children" "People and gods live together in a very harmonious and harmonious life, without any discord." ”
Occupy the color of rice
Source: Network
"The sky will turn into rain and clear the scenery, and sprout vitality for green fields." The real "arable weather" when the rain falls comes, and naturally the folklore of farming is indispensable. The color of rice, popular in South China, is to divine the abundance of the rice harvest that year by frying glutinous rice flowers (not popcorn). The quality of the "color" depends on the number of glutinous rice flowers that burst out, and the more glutinous rice that bursts out of the white flowers means that the harvest is better, and the harvest is not good, indicating that the price of rice will rise. Popcorn can not only "say a good year", but also magical to the point of omnipresence, full of life interest. The Qing Dynasty scholar Zhao Yi included a poem in his book "Miscellaneous Records of Eaves Exposure": "Entering the 100,000 houses in Wumen in the east, the family bursts into the Valley Bu Nianhua." Just put down the golden millet in the pot and turn it into a white jade flower. The red pink beauty occupies the happy event, and the white-headed old man asks about the career. Xiao Lai made up his sons, and several pieces of plum blossoms were inserted into the sideburns. "The funny scene jumps out of the paper.
Imagination and vitality
The beauty of the rain is achieved
And the beauty of the rain
It seems to show the charm of the Beijing Winter Olympics
An imaginative opening ceremony
A vibrant arena
……
Let this Winter Olympics perform
A one-of-a-kind excitement
Although the Winter Olympics are coming to an end
But this imagination and vitality
It will transcend time, space and borders
Like rain
Delicately and warmly
Nourish everyone's heart
Make the world a better place
Let's bring the good
Together to the future!
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