Spring plum blossoms are particularly colorful, rain red apricot blossoms are fresh;
Stinging Reed Forest smells thunder, and the spring equinox butterflies dance among the flowers.
Qingming kites break the line, Gu Yu tender tea emerald lian;
Lixia mulberry fruit is like a cherry, and Xiaoman raises silkworms and farms.
Before the mandarin seedlings are released, the summer solstice rice flowers are like white practice;
The small summer wind urges the beans to ripen early, and the red lotus is enjoyed by the big summer pool.
Li Qiu knew that it was hypnotic, and the sunflowers in the summer smiled and smiled;
The white dew swallow returned to the goose again, and the autumn equinox was full of dangui incense.
Cold dew seedlings are green in the field, and frost falls on the sky with reed flowers;
The winter annunciation offers three rui, and the small snow goose feather pieces fly.
Heavy snow cold plum windward madness, winter solstice Snow Mega Year;
The little cold wanderer is homesick, and the big cold year celebrates the reunion.
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This is the twenty-four solar terms song that many people are familiar with, starting from the spring equinox, to the end of the great cold, the change of the four hours and eight festivals, and the journey of the twenty-four solar terms repeats itself, year after year. It explains the survival experience of ancestors and reflects the climate change of cold and summer. Once as large as the national social infrastructure, as small as chai rice oil and salt, piles and piles, all related to our twenty-four solar terms and seasons. From this system of agricultural civilization that has survived in the era, we can see the longevity of Chinese civilization and the broad and splendid traditional Chinese culture and art, and we can also see how the real Chinese should eat and live, cultivate and work, treat the world, and govern the country together. The ancients truly felt the changes of the four seasons, leaving behind many moving verses that have been passed down through the ages.
The plan of the year is spring. Recently, the Xingzhi Reading Club opened the prelude to the theme activity of the new season of the new year", with the theme of "Festival". The book club invited the writer Wang Mengmeng to lead readers to follow the festival through a poetic journey.
Wang Mengmeng was a guest of the Xingzhi Book Club.
Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems" has, "The golden year does not come again, and it is difficult to be in the morning for a day." Timely encouragement, the years do not treat people. "Time flies, the years flies, time passes too quickly, how can people make the limited time more exciting and more textured?" Wang Mengmeng believes that a deep understanding of the culture of the twenty-four solar terms may help us find relatively satisfactory answers.
Zhu Xi, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem, "The victorious day seeks the Surabaya waterfront, and the boundless scenery is new for a while." Waiting for idleness to recognize the east wind, thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring. "This poem should be written between the spring equinox and the valley rain, in the height of spring, when the flowers are in full bloom. Another example is the great Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi wrote a poem, "Green ants new wine, red clay small stove." Late to the day want snow, can you drink a cup of nothing? "This poem should be written between the little cold and the big cold." Although the rhetoric is simple, it conveys the strong friendship of friends in the coldest season. Between the lines of the ancients, they wrote about the fireworks and customs of the world, and also wrote about people's inner feelings and the emotions between people.
Today, we can recite twenty-four solar terms since childhood, but how many people can really explain the meaning of it? Today's people seem to be separated from this long-standing solar term culture. Busy all day but mediocre, searching for but not at ease. Wang Mengmeng believes that walking into the "twenty-four solar terms", learning from the ancestors, and following the solar terms may make ordinary life more interesting and make the limited life course experience more abundant.
Wang Mengmeng started from the last two solar terms. "Li Chun", was the Spring Festival of the ancients, China since ancient times to agriculture to believe in the country, the so-called spring planting summer sowing autumn harvest winter Tibet, the starting point of farming is in the Spring Festival, so the folk proverb said "a year's plan lies in the spring", Li Chun has a symbolic significance for agriculture. After that, in the third year of the Republic of China, Zhu Qiju, then the minister in charge of internal affairs, proposed New Year's Day as the Spring Festival in his "Four Seasons holiday submission" to Yuan Shikai, then president of the Republic of China, and the festival activities of Lichun, which lasted for more than two thousand years, gradually declined, and Lichun gradually transformed into an ordinary festival.
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She said that when she was a child, she grew up in the 1980s in qingdao, a city on the Jiaodong Peninsula, in the early stage of reform and opening up, when the New Year was particularly full of flavor, once she entered the Layue Gate, the whole family began to work. Making dough, filling sausages, brine, dressing up new clothes, setting off firecrackers, the ceremony is full of rituals. At that time, there were also enough opportunities to follow the festival and get close to nature, such as dumplings wrapped in the Dragon Boat Festival, sauce noodles on the summer solstice, and fragrant porridge with lapa eight boiled, and the taste of traditional celebration was very strong. However, in the past twenty years, material enjoyment and the abundance of life and entertainment have made the "new year taste" more diluted, the transportation is more convenient, the technology is more developed, and it is easier to leave the hometown of people, it seems that they have more choices and more freedom than their ancestors, why are they always confused, empty, and lonely?
From the perspective of solar terms, as the saying goes, "flowers and trees are seasonal, birds are singing to report the agricultural time", and the changes in heaven and earth and natural beings have become an important symbol of distinguishing the solar terms. The labor of the ancients was carried out according to the festival, and those who worked in agriculture, business, and soldiers performed their duties. What you see is what festival you have reached, what should be done, how to do it, what effect to achieve, what goal to pursue, everything is very simple and clear; what most people lack today is actually a kind of power to slow down, calm down, focus on the present, and settle for the present. Informatization and networking amplify many problems and become more dramatic, and the expression of short words and short videos on social media exacerbates the fragmentation of time and feelings, and we are forced into a hypnotic concrete unconscious, where attachment, comparison, greed, and anxiety become our daily routines. Or maybe that's the biggest difference between us and the ancients, and the source of suffering for most of us.
The French philosopher and existentialist master Jean-Paul Sartre divided existence into "free existence" and "self-made existence" in his masterpiece "Existence and Nothingness", and man is the latter. Everyone has absolute freedom, everyone is his own legislator, everyone has absolute responsibility for his choices, and man should be created by himself. In the East, Wang Yangming has a more open view, "Happiness is the essence of the heart, the heart of benevolence, with heaven and earth and all things as one, happiness and harmony, and there is no separation." "Peace of mind is happiness, and people between heaven and earth are lively and free. If we can't get out of the concrete life of the present moment for a while, and are troubled by the troubles of reality and the uncertainty of the future, we will start from every little thing around us and live in every moment of the present. Perhaps philosophers in both the East and the West hope to wait for the best future with the best present.
"Rain" is the rain of early spring, flexible and vibrant, romantic and lingering. The most suitable for this season is a poem written by Han Yu, the head of the Eight Greats of the Tang and Song Dynasties, called "Rain", "The light rain on the heavenly street is as moist as crisp, and the grass color is close but not there; the most beneficial spring of the year is that it is better than the smoke and willows in the imperial capital." The Yuanren Wu Cheng's book "The Seventy-Two Waiting Solutions to the Moon Order" also said: "In the middle of the first month, the day is born of water, and the spring begins with wood, and those who give birth to wood will also have water, so the rain that follows the spring will follow." And when the east wind is thawed, it scatters into rain. "In fact, it means two layers, one layer is that the weather is warmer, the precipitation gradually increases, and the other layer is that in the form of precipitation, it is snowy when it is cold, and now the snow is gradually less, no, it begins to rain, and the rain slowly becomes more."
The rain festival has three seasons, one waiting for the otter to sacrifice the fish, at this time the ice on the surface of the water begins to melt, and the otters begin to fish. The late Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin once specifically mentioned the otter sacrifice in "Yi Customs", and some people commented that he made good use of allusions to his poems like otter sacrifice fish, the rhetoric was gorgeous but strange; the second waiting for hongyan to come, after the rain, the geese began to fly back from the south to the north, with the change of yin and yang between heaven and earth and the change of seasons to migrate; the three grasses and trees sprouted, at this time the grass and trees rose with the yang in the ground, began to pull out young shoots, and the earth gradually presented a thriving scene, very vivid.
In the rainy season, the new shoots of grass and trees are crisp and tender, the smoke willows on the riverside are lined up, the peaches and plums in the garden are blooming, and the passion and vitality of a winter between heaven and earth are released. Therefore, there is Du Mu's "Happy Rain on Spring Nights" that we are all very familiar with: "Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening." Dive into the night with the wind, and the moisturizer is silent. "Seeing that spring is coming, feeling the passion and vitality between heaven and earth waiting for a new hair, which means endlessly."
According to the correspondence between the five elements of yin and yang and the body of Chinese medicine, the liver belongs to the wood and corresponds to the spring qi. At this time, eating the buds of grains can get the essence of the spring heaven and earth, which is in line with the seasons. Therefore, from the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, with the gradual growth of Yang Qi, we should conform to the laws of nature, reduce the time of sleep, and increase some activities, especially outdoor activities, so that liver Qi slowly rises. At the same time, because of the rise of yang qi, our liver fire is also slowly exuberant, so we need to release diarrhea, and we must maintain a stable and comfortable mood.
More than that, the four seasons change, the five elements of yin and yang... The 24 solar terms have been passed down for more than 2,000 years, blending the wisdom of life, secular sentiments, natural mysteries, humanistic allusions and cultural heritage. How do you inherit and carry on this legacy? Wang Mengmeng believes that this is a compulsory course for every Chinese life.
At the end of the activity, Wang Mengmeng suggested that modern people only need to find a little gap in the rush, find a pure land in the midst of the noise, it does not matter when, where, what situation, just focus on the present, to observe, listen, walk, create, let us follow the guidance of the solar terms, to live poetically. In this way, we can connect the signals left by our ancestors in the most appropriate way from the trivial details of daily life to the ups and downs of floating and rising and falling.
The Xingzhi Reading Club is sponsored by Dachang Town Cultural Center, Yan Hua Studio and Shanghai People's Publishing House in Baoshan District.