Know the sting
Sting, ancient called "Qi Sting", is the third of the twenty-four solar terms, when the weather warms, gradually there is spring thunder, the animal into the winter hidden soil, do not drink or eat, called "sting", and "sting" is the day when the heavens wake up the stung animals with thunder. At this time, most of China entered the spring plowing season. At this festival, spring returns to the earth, and the hibernating animals are awakened by the warm earth, and its arrival also means the beginning of a year of farming.
The origin of the sting
Sting, February Festival. "Xia Xiaozheng" said: The first moon is stinged, and the words are stinged. Calm Study, Calm Study, everything is shocked, and the earthquake is thunder, so it is known as sting. It was the stinging that flew away. Tao Shihua ["Lü Shi Chunqiu" as Tao Lihua]. Peach, the name of the fruit, the flower color is red, is the beginning of the moon.
There are three stings
A peach shihua
The peach blossoms feel the scent of spring and begin to bloom.
Second waiting warehouse Gengming
Cang geng, that is, the yellow oriole, the yellow oriole first felt the spring and yang qi, and issued a pleasant chirping sound.
The three eagles turned into doves
Birds such as doves and swallows appear in the forest.
The custom of stinging
Stinging at the pear
In folklore, there is a tradition of eating pears with surprise. Regarding eating pears, the sayings vary from place to place. In northern Jiangsu, there is a folk proverb that "the sting eats the pear, and the spirit is spirited all year round". It is also said that "pear" is pronounced "away", and it is said that eating pears can keep insect pests away from crops and preserve a good harvest in the year.
Ancient poems that are stinging
Smell the thunder
Author: Don Bai Juyi
The miasma wind and frost are early, and the warm weather is urgent.
Poor winter does not see snow, the first month has smelled thunder.
The stinging insect snake came out, and the dead grass and trees opened.
The empty passengers are square inches, still like cold ash.
Qin Louyue floated together
Author: Song Fan Chengda
Floating clouds.
Light thunder faintly stung at first.
Initial sting.
The doves are angry, and the green poplars are windy.
Jade furnace smoke heavy incense Luo Huan.
Whisk the wall thick apricot swallow branch wet.
Swallow branches wet.
The flower tips are missing, and the painting building is standing.
The green poplars follow the wind, the thick apricots blow the walls, and the spring breeze drizzle.
Sting is a new day for all things, and the sun, rain, air and mood are all new.
Today's spring thunder rumbles and explodes, and the spring rain pours down, waking up the insects that hibernate underground, and everything in the world slowly wakes up in the thunder, and the rain slowly wakes up, from drowsy to vigorous. The days of wandering and unpreparedness have passed, lightness and cheerfulness are coming, life is like a bud waiting to be released, along the way, there will always be surprises.
Sting (Twenty-four solar terms)