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The last festival of spring 2022
- Gu Yu
Source: Baotu Network
Valley rain is taken from the meaning of "rainy hundred grains", at this time the rain increases, which is greatly conducive to the growth of cereal crops. Before and after the valley rains, it is also the best time to sow seedlings and pick melons and beans.
Hubei Daily all-media reporter interviewed Wei Le, associate professor of the School of Journalism and Cultural Communication of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, to explain the magical folk customs of the rainy season in the valley.
"Valley rain" may have originated from the need for reproduction
The Book of Rites and Moons describes the month of spring (the last month of spring) as follows: "Dai Sheng descended on Sang. With curved, planted, basket, basket. The queen concubines were in unison, and the pro-Dongxiang sang sang. Forbidden women do not look at, provincial women envoys, in order to persuade silkworms. This "Dai Sheng descended on Sang" is the valley rain phenology.
During the rainy season of the valley, the yang qi rises, and the Daisheng bird stops and descends on the mulberry tree, indicating that people have begun the silkworm work of the new year. Women come to the mulberry forest to pick mulberry leaves, but at the same time may also meet the lover, and some documents and excavated cultural relics have recorded and reflected this.
"'Walking valley rain' may have originated from people's survival and reproduction needs in ancient times." Wei Le xie said that in ancient times, sanglin not only referred to mulberry groves, but also had rich cultural implications, and heterosexual love was a very important part of it. The so-called "Kuwama Pushang" refers to the meeting of young men and women in the mulberry forest. The formation of this kind of culture is inseparable from the Chinese nation's cultural thinking on the unity of heaven and man and the heavens and the earth based on farming.
In the season when spring is full of sunshine and everything is growing vigorously, labor production and the survival and reproduction of their own races are an organic system, which is the embodiment of people's going with the flow of heaven. With the gradual construction of the liturgical civilization, especially after Confucian culture became the mainstream idea, men and women privately met with etiquette. "Walking the valley rain" is not necessarily to go on a date with a lover, but gradually evolved into a country walk, getting physical and mental nourishment in the natural spring scenery, and slowly merging with the adjacent clear spring festival, evolving into a general spring viewing play.
Mu Dan
There is a proverb that "Gu Yu Three Dynasties Look at Peonies", in fact, in April, flowers such as peonies, spring, lilies, and rhododendrons are in bloom. The reason why peonies can "PK" off other flowers and crown the name of the festival is because of the special status of peonies in cultural history.
Source: Baotu Network
First, the root bark of peony is a Chinese medicinal material, which has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, activating blood and dissolving stasis; second, after the Tang Dynasty, peony has become more and more important to scholars and the court, and the poetry of peony in the Song Dynasty is more than a thousand, and the magnificent appearance of peony can stimulate the imagination of "so many delicate people in Jiangshan", in line with the Confucian ideal of honoring the king, so it is gradually shaped into the role of the king of the flowers of dominance; third, Buddhism has spread to the people after the Tang and Song dynasties, and Buddhist monks love to borrow peony sayings to express the meaning of "color is emptiness". It gives people a strong shock and enlightenment of the soul; after extensive cultivation, the peony has gradually become close to the people, and has entered the homes of ordinary people in large numbers, with a good mass foundation.
"Peony is not only a natural plant, but also a cultural shaping of the ancients." Wei Le said that under the action of many parties, history has chosen peonies to become a special existence in flowers, which can be said to be a projection of cultural spirit.
Books
As for the Cangjie that made the characters can also be associated with the Guyu Festival, it may originate from a record.
The Huainanzi Benjingxun records: "In the past, Cangjie wrote books, but the rain and the ghosts cried at night." "It means that after Cangjie invented the script, the heavens fell like rain and grain fell, and the ghosts wept at night." The meaning of "Tianyu Millet" is the same as that of "Valley Rain", and Gu Yu and Cangjie are related to this.
Combined with the great promotion of the chinese nation's historical development by words, the words "Huainanzi" are actually revealing the greatness of the invention of writing.
"Xunzi Unmasked" says that "good books are many, but Cangjie is alone". The "solo transmission" shows that Cangjie has made a significant contribution to the unification of writing. Writing is the direct carrier of culture. The unification of the script is of key significance to the strengthening and prosperity of national culture and the development of people's lives, so Cangjie will be worshipped, and after the Han Dynasty, it will gradually be projected into the various expectations of the people in the world for a better life, and become the object of sacrifice.
As for the popularity of "Guyu Sacrifice Cangjie" in Shaanxi, Henan and other places, it is probably because the geographical records of Cangjie in the classics are "Yangxu Mountain", "Xuanhuo", "Luowei" and other areas of present-day Shaanxi and Henan.
Wei Le suggested that China's unique geographical environment and climatic state determined that farming became the economic lifeblood of ancient China, which gave rise to a unique way of survival and thinking psychology, which developed into a cultural system with strong vitality in the inheritance from generation to generation.
"The solar terms originated in farming, and are the vivid answers to the abstract concept of 'time' that the ancients came up with after a long period of exploration and trial and error." Wei Le said that they not only have the characteristics of warblers and grasses, wind and flowers, snow and moon, but also carry the serious core of survival life. Modern people understand the solar terms, and in addition to paying attention to their interesting and beautiful customs, they should pay more attention to grasping the lifeblood spirit behind them.
The arrival of the valley rain festival
It means that the cold wave weather is basically over
The temperature pick-up has accelerated
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Weather forecast for the coming week for major cities in Hubei Province
Source: Hubei Daily, Hubei Meteorology
Editor: Siyu Liu
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