"The grass and trees know that spring will soon return, and all kinds of red and purple dou Fangfei"
Dear art fans
Time flies so fast
The last solar term of spring
Gu Yu came
"After a thousand flowers fly away, how to stay in the spring"
As soon as the valley rain arrives, spring is nearing its end
The flowers are about to be over
Is spring sadness deep?
Instead of sadness and sadness, go to spring also
It is better to grasp the tail of spring
Enjoy the sunshine of late spring
Greet the splendor of summer
Cuckoo spring plowing
The sound of frogs is ten miles noisy
Peony doubts the national color
Smoke and rain drift the aroma of tea
The beauty of late spring
Beauty blossoms in spring
Beauty is in the happiness of cultivation
Beauty lies in the splendor of culture
Valley rain and three weather
The valley rain is dawning in spring, and the mountains and rivers are blue.
Ye Jian Ming Dai Sheng, Ze Shui Long Duckweed.
Silkworm ants grow in warm houses, and the noisy wind attracts wheat leaves.
The dove whisked its feathers, and the letter was unbearable.
Yuan Shu's "Twenty-Four Solar Terms Poem: Valley Rain in Mid-March" embeds the valley rain phenology into it. If one color is used to describe the things in the poem, there is no doubt that "green" is the most appropriate. In the poem, in the fields of the Ikezawa Valley, duckweed spreads, mulberry trees spit leaves, and wheat seedlings rise, and all of them are green at a glance. The three seasons of gu rain are inseparable from the vibrant green, and the ancients divided it into: one waiting for Ping to start, two waiting for the dove to whisk its feathers, and three waiting for Dai Sheng to descend on Sang.
Wait for | Ping shi sheng
"The wind swept over the surface of the duckweed water, and the green silk was opened in sections." As soon as the valley rain arrives, the rain is abundant, the water temperature warms up, the duckweed grows rapidly, although it is born slender, the vitality is very vigorous, after a rain, within a few days, you can dye a pool of spring water.
Duckweed is also deeply favored by literati and inkers, and also has a strong vitality in our culture.
"Tearful eyes see that spring is nowhere to be found, and Yang Hua turns into duckweed and goes." The ancients' imagination of Yang Hua's hydration into Ping was released in the poems of the past and became the unique romance of the Chinese. The "Wind Rises at the End of Qingping" from Song Yu's "Wind Endowment" and the "Pingshui Encounter" of Wang Bo's "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion" are also integrated into our daily speech.
Wait for | The dove whisks its feathers
"Cuckoo Feifei advises early ploughing, and the hoe flutters to take advantage of the spring eye." The valley rain arrives, the valley is born, and it is a good time for spring ploughing.
During the second season of the valley rain, the cuckoos diligently spread their wings and flew in the sky, making a loud and clear chirping sound, as if they were singing "sowing grain and sowing grain, preserving seeds and keeping out", or "cuckoo cuckoo, sowing five grains quickly", and some places said that it was "Grandpa and Grandma, cut wheat and cut grass". Although the sentences "translated" by the farmers are not the same, they all hear the song of the cultivator, so some people call it "the messenger of the valley rain".
Interestingly, there are still legends in some parts of the countryside that cuckoos are reincarnated with bare sticks. Legend has it that there was a lazy single stick, who missed the season when the farmers were busy going to the ground one year, and when there was a natural disaster, the harvest was cut off, and unfortunately he starved to death, and reincarnated as a cuckoo. Every sowing season, they fly and shout "Bare sticks are so bitter!" Sow the Valley fast! "Remind everyone to hurry up and plough in the spring, and don't covet temporary comfort like him and delay the harvest throughout the year."
Cuckoo sound, listen carefully, it is urging you to work hard.
Three waits for | Dai Sheng descended to Sang
"In the spring of the season, Dai Sheng came down to Sang. The crown moves, and the windward embroidery feathers open. "The most representative phenology of the last five days of Gu Yu is the Dai Sheng bird." "Sheng" refers to the ornament on the head of an ancient woman, and Dai Sheng is a bird wearing a beautiful feather crown.
"Silkworm old Sang Rou Dai Shengming, turning the peony medicine Zhan Chunrong." Dai Sheng bird is a kind of "ground pecking bird" that forages on the ground and is rarely active in trees. In ancient times, people planted mulberry silkworms, and the valley rainy season was the time to raise silkworms, when Dai Sheng often made nests, breeding, and feeding chicks on mulberry trees, and they made crisp chirps from time to time, as if to remind the women who raised silkworms that the female red thing should also be prepared.
Gu Yu Folklore
Spring rain is endless, rain is born of a hundred grains. During the rainy season in the valley, spring sowing and spring planting have entered a critical period, and when people grab the farmers, the fields are busy and thriving.
Of course, in addition to farming, there are also lively fishing, elegant tea, beautiful flowers, and pious sacrifices... In various activities and ceremonies, people are grateful for the gifts of heaven and earth, cultivate the happiness of the moment, and enjoy the beauty of life.
Fishermen's Day
Shandong Rongcheng and other fishermen in the northern coastal area have a saying that "when the valley rains, a hundred fish come ashore". With the arrival of the valley rain festival, the local weather warms up, a large number of fish and shrimp migrate to the shore, it is a good time to catch fish and eat fish, and the valley rain has become a festival for local fishermen since ancient times.
"A hundred fish have come ashore!" On this day, people cheered and congratulated each other, cast nets to catch fish, and the sea and fishing market were not bustling, which was called a carnival for fishermen.
Of course, before going out to sea to fish, a grand ceremony of sea sacrifice should be held, thanking the sea god for giving abundant fish and shrimp, praying for the blessing of the gods, going to the sea safely, and harvesting fish and shrimp.
There must be fish every year, and it is even more important to have more than one year. Today, the Fishermen's Festival continues. For fishermen in Rongcheng and other places, this festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival, people kill pigs and steamed steamed buns, burn incense and cannons, beat gongs and drums, sing and dance, and use pious rituals to pin their yearning for a better life.
Taste the valley rain tea
It was time to pick tea before and after the rain in the valley. There is a folk proverb "valley rain valley rain, tea picking to rain". It is precisely because the tea picked during the valley rain is tender and fragrant, and the taste is excellent, tasting new tea has gradually become the tradition of the valley rain.
Tea farmers said that the tea picked on the day of Gu Yu cleared the fire, warded off evil spirits, and made it clear to the eyes. Therefore, no matter what the weather is on that day, they will get up early to go up to the mountain to pick tea, and the tea leaves they make are sometimes reluctant to drink much, and they are used as gifts to relatives and friends to entertain distinguished guests.
Chinese good tea, and the literati inkers are especially good tea. They are endowed with tea friends, chanting poems, and many beautiful poems float out in the smoke and rain tea fragrance.
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 leaves xiao xiao bamboo, a few strokes across the pale mountain.
Just in the morning and rain, a cup of fragrant tea sat in the middle.
Zheng Banqiao's poem wrote the charm of Gu Yu's tea tasting, stealing half a day's leisure, two or three confidants a cup of tea, which is a beautiful thing in the world.
"The valley rain should be sunny and the flowers are blooming, and a pot of spring colors gathers in the bookstore." Alone, there are a hundred flowers to enjoy, there are new teas to sip, there are idle books to read, and it is another kind of comfort.
Admire the peonies
"The national color is unique, and the rain in the valley is late in the spring." Before and after the rain in the valley, the peony was in full bloom, and the purple and red were beautiful. Peony is not only the embodiment of beauty, but also symbolizes the prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the family. "Since Li Tang came, the people of the world have loved peonies very much" is not surprising.
What kind of grandeur will occur when the peony blossoms in ancient times? Bai Juyi said that "everyone in a city is crazy", and Liu Yuxi said that "the capital moves when the flowers bloom". The opening of peonies can cause such a big movement, and not holding a flower party is really a bit of a failure to live up to it.
Therefore, the Peony Flower Festival began to be held during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which has been passed down to this day. Now, "peony towns" such as Heze in Shandong, Luoyang in Henan, and Pengzhou in Sichuan generally hold grand peony flower parties during the rainy season of the valley. During the flower fair, tourists are weaving, and people feel the breath of spring and enjoy the beauty of life in the light and long fragrance of flowers.
Matsuri Kurashi
According to folklore, the origin of Gu Yu is related to Cangjie, because the Jade Emperor once rained a guzi rain for him. What's going on?
According to legend, during the reign of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, Cangjie was a talented historical official, because of his meritorious writing, the Jade Emperor of the Upper Realm was greatly moved to hear about it, and rewarded him with a golden man when Cangjie was sleeping, but Cangjie believed that the golden man was "a thing under the heavens" and could not be privately owned, so he told the heavenly official in his sleep that he wanted grain and abundance, so that the people of the world could have food to eat. The next day the sky really fell on the grain. The Yellow Emperor took the day of the rain of the valley as a festival, called the Valley Rain Festival.
Legend has it that Cangjie was buried in his hometown of Baishui, Shaanxi After his death. Since then, whenever it rains in the valley, the local people will hold sacrifices to commemorate our "ancestors of writing", which is still going on.
In commemoration of Cangjie's contribution, the United Nations has also designated The Day of "Gu Yu" as "Chinese Language Day".
Finally, Xiao Yi gave Qin Guan a poem
Encourage everyone
The festivals and things urge each other to be new, and the obsessive children retain the spring
Fang Fei Xie should not hate, Xia Mu Yin yin is lovely
Goodbye Spring!
Hello summer!
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