Dazhong Daily reporter Lu Yu
The earth returns in spring, and the spring thunder frightens the insects; all things are ready to move, and the light rain is new. At 22:44 today, the earth ushered in the "stinging" festival.
Spring thunder, all things long. The sting that comes with the rain festival presents the spring light and spring color of "a thunder sting", conveys the agricultural weather of "farming from here", and awakens the dream of the earth that has been dormant for a long time.
"The ancestors observed the natural phenomena at this time, such as the relationship between climate, biological activities in nature and harvest, and found that if there was lightning and thunder, then the year would be a bumper harvest." Zhang Jiping, an expert in jinan literature and history, said that every year when the sun reaches 345 degrees of the ecliptic longitude on March 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar, it enters the third of the twenty-four solar terms - "sting", which is also a sign of the beginning of mid-spring.
After the "sting", the temperature and ground temperature in most parts of the country generally rose. The budding spring thunder, like the starting gun of the Spring Games competition, after the start of the heavens and the earth, the insects and small animals that lie dormant in the ground gradually appear at this time and open the growth mode. "The ancients first called 'frightening' 'Qijing', and later because of the name of the Han Jing Emperor Qi, in order to avoid secrecy, they changed 'Qi' to 'Qi'." Zhang Jiping said.
The ancients divided "stinging" into three kinds of signs: one waiting for tao shihua, the second waiting for cang Gengming, and the third waiting for eagles to turn into doves. In the first five days of the solar term, the buds of the peach blossoms begin to bloom; in the next five days, the Canggeng (yellow oriole) begins to chirp and use the singing voice to render the spring atmosphere; in the last five days, the weather warms up and many animals begin to breed.
The sting not only awakened all kinds of flowers, birds and insects, but also awakened the people of farming, and sounded the horn of spring ploughing and spring irrigation. The earth warms up, the grass and trees return to green, the wheat seedlings are jointed, and the peach sprouts burst, and the land of Qilu presents a busy scene of spring ploughing. "We have a proverb that says, 'After the festival of stinging, spring ploughing cannot rest'. 12 days ago, we tried to plant two acres of 'Guo Brand' watermelon seedlings in a greenhouse in the saline alkali land, and it matured after 70 days. Now the growth is very strong, and as the days get warmer, I hope to have a good harvest. On March 4, the second day of the second lunar month, Wang Juanjuan, secretary of the party branch of Diao Jia Village in Xiahe Township, Binzhou Zhuanhua District, said.
After the arrival of the sting, the winter wheat in North China began to grow green, and the soil was still frozen and thawed alternately, and it needed to be raked in time. "Stinging without rake, like steaming away from the air" "Nine yang blossoms, agricultural work together" is a long-term popular folk proverb. At this time, the trees are at the end of the winter dormancy period, the root activity is vigorous, the planting logistics are watering, and the survival rate of the saplings is high.
The arrival of the sting is the real beginning of spring, and all the dormant beauty is waking up. Nowadays, the cultivation and irrigation carried out on the vast fields are ensuring a better harvest year; while people are consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, they continue to revitalize the countryside and run to a better future. In this spring of hope, let us start hand in hand and move forward to the future together.