Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 19 Title: Gu Yu: Rain born in a hundred valleys
Xinhua News Agency reporter Hou Xuejing
April 20th is the last festival of spring, the valley rain.
"Rain and frost cut off the air and clear, willow green tea fragrant swallow to make shuttle." Cuckoo cries sowing spring twilight, planting and planting tubes many things. ”
On a April day on earth, spring is just in time. During the rainy season in the valley, there is a cool breeze, but the cold has subsided; there is a temperature, but the heat has not yet arrived.
In the warming daylight, seedlings are first planted and new crops are planted. Rain is born of a hundred valleys, a bustling rushing in.
Spring is coming, summer is coming
"Clear snow breaks, valley rain breaks frost." The valley rain means that the cold wave weather is basically over. During the rainy season of the valley, the poplar flowers flutter, the willows flutter, the peonies spit out, and the cherries are ripe. In the late spring, The purple and red have long been opened, and the splendid embroidery in the world can be seen.
"One waits for Ping to be born, the second waits for the dove to whisk its feathers, and the third waits for Dai Sheng to descend to Sang." Ancient China divided the valley rain into three seasons, which means that during the valley rainy season, due to the increase in rainfall, the duckweed on the surface of the water began to grow, and then the cuckoo flew with its wings and began to remind people to sow seeds, and then the daisheng bird began to be seen on the mulberry tree.
Spring rain is the most important feature of valley rain, but why is it often said that "spring rain is as expensive as oil"? China has an East Asian monsoon climate, with rain and heat in the same period, and most of the rainfall is concentrated in summer and autumn. In fact, during the rainy season, only southern China has begun to enter the rainy season. In June, the rain belt shifts to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, where the rain will rain endlessly, commonly known as "plum rain"; in July, North China enters the rainy season. Nevertheless, compared with the first few solar terms of Lichun, Sting, and Qingming, the rain in the valley rain season still quickly increased.
The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that from 8 o'clock on April 19 to 8 o'clock on the 20th, from the northeast to the south of Gansu and the south of Ningxia, all the way south to Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan and other places, there will be light rain, and there will be moderate rain in some areas, which should be the scene of the valley rain festival.
To this day, the twenty-four solar terms are still an important coordinate of modern life, and they still play a basic guiding role in the current production and life.
Rain gives birth to a hundred grains, and the work is busy
Valley rain links valley and rain, reflecting the agro-climatic significance of "valley rain". After the valley rain festival, the temperature rises and the amount of rain increases, which is a good time to sow seedlings and plant melons and beans.
At this time, the wheat in the north begins to joint, pregnant ears, panicles, flowering, and filling after returning to green, until it gradually matures in June. Wheat has a huge demand for moisture, about 1 kg to 1.2 kg of water per 1 kg of wheat produced, and now is the time when wheat needs water the most, and if there is a shortage of water, it will seriously reduce production and cannot be remedied.
Even in the rice-producing areas of the south, it is time to plant seedlings in the paddy fields. Without water, farmers will have no way to start. Wheat and rice are cereals, the ancients have long believed that "rain produces a hundred grains", the rain of this period is called "valley rain", it is really very appropriate.
In this spring of this year, when the fight against the epidemic in various places did not miss the farmers, the spring ploughing production was carried out in an orderly manner.
Villagers work in the fields of Zaichuan Village in Gangbian Township, Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, on April 17. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Lu Zhongnan)
In Jilin Province, which has recently achieved zero social clearance for epidemic prevention and control, spring ploughing has ushered in a peak period, and all localities have promoted farmers to return to their hometowns, agricultural materials, and agricultural machinery maintenance, help farmers crack the blockages of spring ploughing, and strive to stabilize grain production of more than 80 billion catties in normal years.
On the banks of the Miluo River in Hunan Province, rice transplanters shuttle back and forth, farmers are busy in the fields, and there is a scene of spring ploughing in full swing. Miluo City epidemic prevention and control, spring ploughing production "two hands", the current early rice concentrated seedlings 277,700 mu, the implementation of early rice area of 348,600 mu, exceeded the target task;
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According to the changes in the market price of agricultural materials this year, China Agricultural Production Materials Group Corporation will release agricultural material reserves in a timely manner to maintain market stability, ensure agricultural production safety and farmers' interests, and is expected to supply nearly 11 million tons of chemical fertilizers and nearly 200,000 tons of pesticides during spring ploughing to ensure that agricultural materials are constantly filed and not out of stock.
A thousand years of wisdom, reflecting the present dynasty
Many places in the south of the mainland have the custom of picking tea in the valley rain. Tea farmers believe that the "Guyu Tea" picked on this day is the best of the tea, and it is generally reserved for themselves to drink or used to entertain guests.
Good mountains and good water produce good tea. With the continuous promotion of ecological civilization construction in recent years, the mainland has reduced the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and tea production has become more "green" and more "ecological" and has moved towards high-quality development. A leaf, rich a people. Nowadays, the tea industry in many places has become an important support for consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and promoting rural revitalization.
Workers of Guangxi Wuzhou Tea Factory Co., Ltd., a cooperative affiliated enterprise of Guangxi Supply and Marketing Cooperative, are packaging tea leaves. (Photo courtesy of All China Supply and Marketing Cooperative)
Wang Qing, president of the China Tea Circulation Association, said that in recent years, the mainland tea industry has achieved rapid development in tea garden planting, tea production and tea consumption, and the industrial chain tends to be perfect. In 2021, the national tea production exceeded 3 million tons for the first time.
China is the home of tea, and today tea is the world's drink. The "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" were also approved for inscription on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016. China's thousand-year wisdom still nourishes modern human society.
Aerial view of Baotian Tea Base of Hunan Tea Industry Group. (Photo courtesy of All China Supply and Marketing Cooperative)
The day of the Valley Rain Festival is also the Chinese day of the United Nations. Why is the United Nations Chinese Day scheduled for Gu Yu? According to legend, Cangjie, the historian of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan, created the most primitive hieroglyphs in China; Shangcang was moved by Cangjie's characters and rained a rain of millet for him, which is the origin of "valley rain". This day is designated as the Chinese Day of the United Nations to commemorate the contribution of the legendary "ancestor of Chinese characters" Cangjie.
The wisdom of the millennium shines into reality, and the struggle of the present achieves a better future.
Spring is just right, cherish the present, move forward firmly, and embrace the future.