Every spring, The Stings meet me as scheduled. I strolled through the early spring, looking at the scenery in all directions, far and near, and felt that my eyes had become fresh and bright. The spring wind, wrapped in poetry and walking and walking, and the sting, like a seasonal river, rushes and ripples, warmly beckoning to the earth.
After the stinging festival, the spring tide surges in the fields, and the spring colors surge in the earth. The peach blossoms that are ready to bloom will spit out the whispers of the ground, and under the blowing of the spring wind, they will peel off the pieces of powder and white, reflecting this picturesque spring, the green willow tree, the budding poplar tree will absorb the spring color of the place, and under the blowing of the spring wind, the green silk will be drawn, revealing the young buds, and fragrant this bright spring.
"Stinging" means that the weather is getting warmer, and the spring thunder is stirring, waking up the hibernating animals. The spring scenery is bright, wildflowers are everywhere, and small flowers are dotted in the field villages, such as small family jasper, beautiful but not losing the show, and the rose flowers in front of the farmer's door, rich and gorgeous, graceful and fertile, such as everyone's boudoir, gorgeous but not charming, graceful and not squeamish. "Spring thunder, all things are long", the sting season is a good "nine-nine" sunny day, the temperature rises, the rain increases, and the farmer has no leisure.
People in my hometown often say "sting" as "shock", I don't know what the reason is? The sting, known in ancient times as "Qi Sting", is the third of the twenty-four solar terms, marking the beginning of the mid-spring season; the Seventy-two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order: "The February Festival... All things are shocked, and the earthquake is thunder, so it is known that the sting is stung, and it is the sting that frightens and leaves. There is a proverb in the farmhouse: "Thunder and thunder, piles of grain and rice." If thunder rings on the day of the sting, it indicates that this year's crops will be harvested. If thunder is not heard near the spring equinox after the sting, it will affect this year's harvest due to the lack of rain.
When I was a child, I was in my hometown, and after the annual sting, it was the busiest time for my parents and villagers. Father began to pour the hoe upside down, polishing it over and over again, standing on his own land, conceiving of this year's crop. In those days, I used to do farm work with my parents or other villagers on holidays. Ploughing, sowing seeds, fertilizing rapeseed, plowing fields... These are preludes to farming. "If you want to harvest rapeseed, you must be diligent in the ditch", tea trees, peach trees, pear trees on the mountain... I am also competing for favors, eager to sprout, today a bud, tomorrow a leaf to tell the owner, "I should prune, I should chase", and early rice to prepare seedlings and so on.
"After a drum of light thunder stings, carefully sift through the plum sky." The thunder of the stinging and powerful is a command issued by spring. For us, only by working hard with the attitude of a strivers can we live up to the most beautiful spring light and good years.
(Text/Figure An Rengu)