□ Huang Lan
Approaching the stinging festival, although the sky is overcast, there are only a few rays of sunlight occasionally projected, which is already very exciting compared to the deep rain some time ago. At the eye, the willows are green, and the buds have quietly opened their small half-leaves; on the low grass on the lawn, there are little flowers of white or blue or purple, and the most obvious is that the birds are clearer, and the waterfowl by the small pond are also swimming happily.
Sting, also known as "enlightenment", is the third of the twenty-four solar terms. Yuan Shu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a masterpiece of the "Yong 24 Qi Poems Shocking the February Festival":
Yang Qi was initially stung, And The Earth Week of Shaoguang was lighted.
Peach blossoms bloom in Shu Brocade, eagles aging spring doves.
Time to scramble, sprout and cultivate.
The world is in charge of the affairs of the people, and the fields are cultivated.
In the season of stinging, the spring breeze sprouts, and nature has a new vitality. After the winter solstice, the yang rises, and when it is time to sting, the light fills the earth. Look at the peach blossoms, just like Shu Brocade, colorful and gorgeous blooming. Eagles soaring in the sky, knowingly, left, replaced by spring doves flying from the treetops. Speaking of this dove, it refers to the spotted dove, also known as the partridge, the partridge, a gray-brown bird similar to a domestic pigeon. Now the ecology is improving, and there are also appearances in the fields. This beautiful spring day, rushing to urge everything to grow, grass and trees sprout, and tree buds also prune and grow according to certain rules. In order to make a living, farmers also went into the fields to carry out spring ploughing. There are three kinds of stings: "One waits for Tao Shihua; the other waits for Cang Geng (Yellow Oriole) to sing; and the third waits for the eagle to turn into a dove." In this poem, two of them are written. Yuan Shu's poems are more like the instructions for the festival, which makes people clear at a glance.
And I prefer the poem "Moon Night" by Liu Fangping, another poet of the Tang Dynasty:
Deeper moon color half home, big dipper dry south dipper.
Tonight I know that the spring is warm, and the sound of insects is new through the green window screen.
Liu Fangping (born and died unknown), poet of the Tang Dynasty, a native of Luoyang. He was a Hun with a different perspective. People write about stings, usually write about the spring scenes during the day, but he chooses the night and writes about this sting night very vividly.
In fact, the current spring night is still a little cold. The poem says that the night is deeper, half of the courtyard is immersed in the moonlight, and the other half is shrouded in the shadows of the night is common. This contrast of light and shade further sets off the tranquility of the moonlit night. The seven stars of the Big Dipper in the poem, located in the constellation Ursa Major, are named Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Shaking Light, and these seven stars form a bucket-shaped shape, whether in ancient times or modern times, occupy an important position in our lives. The Big Dipper stars have different orientations in different seasons and nights, in the northern hemisphere sky, and people can recognize the seasons according to the direction pointed by the handle at the beginning of dusk. The six stars of the South Dipper are located in the constellation sagittarius, and the six bright stars are arranged in a bucket shape in the southern sky, echoing the Big Dipper.
At this time, the Big Dipper and the South Dipper in the sky have been obliquely slanted. This is not only a visual point out of the "deeper", indicating the passage of time, but also from the emotional point of the taste of loneliness. However, the lower link made a swing, and in this moment of cold and silent night, there was a crisp and cheerful insect chirping. Oh, it turned out to be the ground pneumatic, frightening insects, this hibernating insect in the ground was the first to feel the warmth of spring, and when it woke up, it made a cheerful sound. The sound of insects, through the screen window, came to the poet. Su Shi once had a poem "Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet", who said that only ducks can be prophets, here, it is clearly "Spring Air Warm Worm Prophet". A "new" word speaks volumes about this "prophet."
Liu Fangping's poem is also the choice to write the sting from the sense of hearing, and the most important feature of the sting festival is thunder. The so-called "spring thunder, alarming all things", the underground bugs also rely on hearing, hear the thunder, feel the warmth of the earth, and wake up. Strange to say, the weather is good, and around the day of the sting, there will be rumbling thunder at night, and I have been paying attention for several years, without exception.
The stinging thunder is also like a declaration of "spring is coming", after this festival, Jiangnan will gradually bid farewell to the cold weather, and will usher in the spring of peach red willow green and warblers flying swallows. Let me write this partridge day to record this upcoming spring!
Partridge day sting
In the middle of the night, the thunder was frightening, and the air was known to penetrate the window.
Willow plum peach apricot flying warbler swallow, Beach Creek mountain green.
The wind thaws, the rain is affectionate, and the cultivation is enlightened.
Jiangnan is also about a bustling scene, and the spring color of The Strange Yin yin is bright.
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