Traditional Chinese solar terms
valley
The twentieth day of the third month of the lunar calendar
rain
In April, half clear and half rainy.
On the day when the riverbed began to grow, a drop of rain, gently flowing and sprinkling, sent away the harsh winter and spring cold. She landed on the body of the winter wheat draped in green clothes, glowing with a shining silver light. Mai Mang is like a silver needle, a wisp of silk, and the needle leads in the breeze are not busy, she will light up the thousands of raindrops under the sky in an instant, and with a wave of her sleeve, she will wet all the dry land in her eyes.
In April, the waves were not alarming, witnessing a spring breeze that was about to retire.
The rain of April, not dodging, not humble, not frivolous, little by little, sprinkled on the earth. Is this elf descending from the sky looking for her intimate companion?
"A drop of rain is asking another drop of rain / Why do we always meet on the way back home / Although the raindrops are on the same road / But still a group of strange passers-by", in the poem encountered a valley rain, the meaning of "rain born in a hundred valleys" gradually grew.
"Spring rain is as expensive as oil", it is you. There is a proverb that says: "The rain and rain in the Qingming Valley are often lacking". When the valley rains, it is the critical period of cultivation and growth of cereal crops, and they are so eager for the care and nourishment of raindrops.
"It is the season of wind and rain, the grain is abundant, and the society is peaceful." The ancient Chinese people prayed for the blessing of the community, full of ancestors' worship and reverence for the nature of heaven and earth.
April rain is a river, a mountain. Spring is awakened by rain.
Qingming is the comfort and clarity after the rain, and the valley rain is the increasingly plump posture in the rain.
A group of green wheat meets a spring rain that suddenly amazes the earth.
Jiangnan spring color but the emerald willows in front of the eyes dancing in the spring wind, delicate women strolling in Liyang and Fenghu, Aju of Hongcun waiting for a distant lover in Huizhou in the pink wall Dewa, the clear blue Xin'an River ripples in the twilight... Gu Yu, a song of Jiangnan, this late spring rain is also the finale of spring.
A soft call, all sentient beings, all strolling in the rain, breaking out of the green life, with the furry and flexible characteristics, squeezing eyebrows and eyes in the spring wind, the raindrops into her blood, the poetry into her bone marrow, staring at the spring of a drop of rain.
Author: Wang Yuanding
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Editor: Cheng Hongmei Second Instance: Xu Haisheng Final Judge: Wu Shunhui