The poet Saint Du Fu said: "Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening." ”
Spring has two "rain" festivals, the first is the second solar term "rain", just in the first month, the weather warms up, the ice and snow melt, the rain gradually increases, the grass and trees sprout, and the spring light is still tender. The last festival of spring is "valley rain", which is connected to Qingming, which means "rain is born of hundreds of valleys".
The "Spectrum of Qunfang" says: "Valley rain, valley rain and birth." ”
"The Seventy-Two Waiting Solutions of the Moon Order" Yun: "In the middle of March, since the rain, the earth has pulsated, and now it is raining in the valley of the water." Rain reads as going to sound, like rain in my public fields. Gaigu sows seeds at this time, from top to bottom also. ”
The proverb cloud: "Qingming breaks snow, valley rain breaks frost." "At this time, the temperature rises, the rain increases, the grass and trees are luxuriant, the hundred grains germinate, the spring ploughing and spring sowing have opened the curtain, the agricultural work cannot be delayed for a day, and the clockwork of the farmer's time is tight."
Valley rain is divided into three seasons.
The first is the first life of Ping, The Tang Dynasty Du Fu's "For The Farmer" cloud: "Round lotus floating small leaves, fine wheat falling light flowers." "The duckweed and small lotus in the pond reveal fine leaves, and the wheat flowers in the wheat field begin to bloom.
The second Song Dynasty poet Deng Lin said: "The south dove in the north of the village calls the rain, and the swallows in front of the society and the back of the society are looking for nests." The Ming Dynasty poet Chen Xi also wrote: "Arouse the Xiao cultivators, and the western region is full of spring rain." "The dove began to vibrate its feathers, and the spotted dove took the main rain, summoning the misty spring rain and awakening the diligent villagers.
The third season is for Dai Sheng to descend to Sang, and the Ming Dynasty poet Tong Xuanshi said: "Flying cuckoo birds, kind mulberry tree smoke." "Cuckoos and Daisheng birds chirp on the freshly blooming mulberry trees, urging people to hurry up and sow seeds.
During the rainy season of the valley, it is time to pick tea, this season the temperature is high, the rain is enough, and the tea buds on the tea tree are fresh and bright, nutritious and fresh.
Xu Cishu of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Tea Shu": "The Qingming Dynasty is too early, the summer is too late, and before and after the valley rains, the timing is moderate." "It is said that guyu is the most suitable season for picking spring tea. The late Tang Dynasty poet monk Qi Ji in "Xie Zhong Shangren Sends Tea" yun:
Spring valley before the rain, and hand pick the smoke.
Green tender is difficult to cage, clear and easy to late days.
And invite neighbors to cook the falling flower spring.
The land is far away from each other, and there is no coming and the next year.
Before and after the valley rains, on the misty mountains in spring, friends pick new tea with their industrious hands. The tea leaves are delicate and difficult to pick a cage a day. Tired of sending new tea so far away, I greeted the guests of the neighbors and boiled the tea with the best spring water for them to taste. Come to think of it, you and I haven't seen each other for a year. The poem describes the hardships of friends picking and roasting tea, and expresses gratitude and thoughts for friends.
Zheng Banqiao, one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" in the Qing Dynasty, also loved to taste tea before the rain, and he wrote a "Seven Words Poem" to express the feeling of tasting tea, the poem said:
No wind and no rain, the sun is shining, and the green bamboo pavilion is good.
Favorite late cool guests, a pot of new tea bubble pineapple.
A few new branches of Xiao Xiao bamboo, vertical than the horizontal wrinkle light mountain.
Just in the morning and rain, a cup of fragrant tea sat in the middle.
Just when there is no wind and no rain, the green bamboo pavilion is standing tall and the branches are green. The most joyful evening is that there are guests who come to visit, brew a pot of pine new tea, talk and laugh with him, be happy, spread paper and splash ink, first draw a few thin bamboo with new leaves, and then add a touch of light distant mountains. After the Qingming Dynasty, with the valley rain, on such a beautiful day, taste a cup of fragrant tea and enjoy a lifetime of indifference, how happy!
And a song made by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, "Watching Tea and Composing Songs", tells the hardships of tea farmers picking tea during the rainy season of the valley, Shiyun:
The day before yesterday I did not like the tea picking, the rate of the official manager.
Today's tea picking I love to watch, Wu Minsheng is diligent and natural.
Yunqi took the road near the trek mountain, and it was not the place where the officials were cleared.
There is nothing to avoid picking tea, and the men and women are really hardworking.
The new shoots of the tender pods are carefully picked, and the rain in the busy valley comes to the Ming Dynasty.
Before the rain, the price is expensive and the rain is cheap, and the people's hardships touch Chen Minghao.
Sincerity is not noble, and the old and the young go to the time.
Our clothes and food were not enough, and the dragon ball phoenix cake was really tasteless.
Although the poem is long, it is simple and straightforward, and writes out the author's personal perception of visiting the tea town, the tea farmer's hard work of picking tea, the worry about the weather and seasons, and the hardships and difficulties of the life of the Wudi farmers. As a generation of emperors, they can perceive the people's feelings, sympathize with the people's suffering, understand the people's worries, and lament that "our clothes and food have not been enough, and the dragon and phoenix cakes are really tasteless", which is rare and valuable.
During the rainy season of the valley, it is necessary to lead cattle to drive plows for spring ploughing, to fertilize the wheat that is pumped, to collect mulberry and raise silkworms to harvest new cocoons, and to do one agricultural work after another without sloppiness. Fan Chengda, a pastoral poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, described the beautiful scenery and tense agricultural affairs in the Southern Jiangnan area of the Guyu Festival in a poem called "Butterfly Love Flowers", which is as follows:
Spring rises and adds to the water. Yerba Buena geese, green and breezy shore. Painting the Bay of Yuyi hundred turns. Hengtang Pagoda is close to the front.
Jiangguo is cold and late. In the north of the village and the south of the village, the valley rain has only been ploughed everywhere. Xiu Mai Liangang Mulberry Leaf Mean. Take a look at the new cocoons of the noodles.
The film depicts the beautiful scene of the rain in the valley of Jiangnan Water Town, and the newly rising green water is a penny deep, and the water surface is flattened. The water's edge is full of grass, white geese waddling, and green on both sides. The boat turned around the Jiuqu Water Bay, and the hengtang tower was faintly in front of it.
The next film writes about agricultural affairs, and the vision is more broad. Jiangnan agricultural proverb said: "Qingming soaked seeds, valley rain seedlings." "Therefore, the farmers were worried about the late spring and late farming, so they quickly grabbed the valley rain and harvested the paddy fields in the north of the village and the south of the village." The wheat in the field is showing, and it is even more necessary to do a good job in field management during the critical period. The mulberry trees on the hill are growing happily, and the mulberry leaves are luxuriant, and they must also be picked in a hurry to raise mulberry silkworms. After work, looking at the growth of the wheat brushing together, looking at the white fat silkworm baby, thinking of harvesting new wheat and tasting new steamed buns, picking up silkworm cocoons and selling them at a good price, my heart is full of heartfelt joy!
This pastoral poem is fresh and clear, the memory is clear and concise, the lyricism is simple and sincere, and people can't help but be intoxicated after reading it.
During the rainy season of the valley, the peony, which was praised by the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi as "only the peony is the true national color, and the blossom season moves the capital", should bloom and reveal its fragrance. As the saying goes: "Valley rain three dynasties to see peonies", peony flowers are called valley rain flowers, rich flowers, valley rain season peony has lasted for thousands of years. The Qing Jia Lu by the Qing Dynasty scholar Gu Lu said:
The shrine annex is built for merchants, and Gu Yu looks at the flower bureau a new one.
Unbelieving in the encounter without national color, the jin shed only protects the jade building spring.
To this day, Shandong Heze and Henan Luoyang will hold peony flower parties during the rainy season of the valley for people to watch and play. Sheng Tang poet Wang Weige:
The green is idle and quiet, and the red clothes are shallow and deep.
The flower heart is broken, and the spring color is not knowing the heart.
- "Red Peony"
He praised the red peony, which is a metaphor for flowers, like a green makeup leaning on red, quiet and elegant beauty. Red peonies have few dark, clear layers, even if the zero is mud, but the spring color will always stay in the heart. The late Tang Dynasty poet Wang Zhenbai said:
Gu Yu wash fibroin, cut into white peony.
Exotic fragrance open jade, light powder mud silver plate.
Xiao Shu Luhua is wet, and the moon is cold at night.
The family put on light makeup and leaned on Zhu Lan wordlessly.
- "White Peony"
What he saw was white peony, quietly blooming during the rainy season of the valley, that natural beauty, that strange fragrance, let people clean their eyes, purify their souls. Li Shanfu, minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem:
The yellow demon purple is light red, and the valley rain is in the early morning scene.
Shizune does not say that she still loves the day, and the clouds are uncertain and only follow the wind.
- "Peony Two Songs. Part 1》
The peonies he admired were purple and red, with graceful yellows, brilliant purples, and pink reds, overlapping and overlapping, rich and noble, and more colorful and colorful after the rain of the valley rain. They are like plump and delicate women, singing and dancing in the bright sunshine, blooming with brilliant beauty.
Travelers travel to draw, and the spring is melting.
In the sound of agricultural frogs, in the color of the grass.
--Tang. Zhou Pu,"Sending Nan Ba Cui Envoy Jun on the Way to Spring"
Grasp the last little tail of spring, let's go out with a good mood, listen to the quiet birds and flexible frog drums, see the rich peonies and gorgeous wildflowers, taste the sweet spring shoots and fragrant new tea, learn to help the plough, sow the grain, plant beans, pick mulberries and other agricultural things...
Keep the spring and stay in our hearts!
-Author-
Liu Qirui, male, a native of Tancheng, Shandong, a veteran literature lover, published the essay collection "The Song of that year", "Nostalgia is a Curved Blue Moon" and the short story collection "Hedong Hexi".