Momoyao Harugure

Huai Xiang Wang Aiguo

□ Zhang Ziyi

Spring is approaching dusk, peach blossoms and apricot blossoms have bloomed to the point of blooming, and the red makeup has faded to give birth to fruit; early summer is on the way, the rain is increasing, and the weather is really warm and moist. The valley rain festival stands between spring and summer.

In the city, people are already unfamiliar with sowing seeds, and the valley rain festival is more in the books, becoming two simple and elegant square characters.

And in the wider land, this is where it comes in.

From the melting of ice and snow to the complete dissipation of white frost, this is the signal of the earth to everything in the world, the air begins to be full of moisture, the spring water ripples, and people follow the ancient seasons and begin to cultivate on the fertile land.

Qingming and Guyu are two closely linked "sister festivals", and the 15 days in between are arranged to be full - a farmer proverb says: "Qingming Valley rain is connected, and there is no delay in planting and cultivating the fields." "This is obviously a custom in Gangnam.

Spring wheat is sown during the spring equinox in the Longzhong Zone. Qingming to the valley rain, wheat gradually sprouted some "grass color far away but no" green shoots, farmers carefully check the germination of crops, this is also the last opportunity to remedy the spring will be twilight, there are many things in life can only be empty regrets, but the earth has the thickness of the load, people still have time to be swept by the season, into the rolling river at four o'clock.

Wind and rain wash a city of flowers.

"Rain gives birth to a hundred grains", the perfection of all this depends on the nourishment of rain.

In the long agricultural civilization, almost spontaneously formed some "rain-seeking rituals" based on local culture, which were obviously hasty at first, and the plants were sealed by the earth, and if there was no rain in the sky, the harvest of the year would become a bubble.

Anxious people can only try to talk to heaven and earth. In ancient times, dance was born with human communication, and this kind of body language imitating animals and natural movements has the meaning of "communication" from the beginning.

At this moment, this mode of communication is once again chosen, with people waving their arms and twisting their bodies, trying to gain attention in a particularly striking way.

Also music.

It is necessary to make a loud noise in the silent mountains, and only such a sound can the prayer be transmitted. But in depth, in fact, this drum sound is just for people to hear, so enthusiastic drum sound, the drum is as dense as the rain, people in such a sound, the anxious heart began to quiet down a little.

In the Tao River Basin of Gansu Province, there are still Zhuoni Balang encouragement and Minxian Badang dance, which is naturally a custom handed down from ancient times, and although it is now performed in the New Year Festival, it was originally born out of praying for rain.

There are inheritors.

After the performance of the Ba Lang encouragement, the drums that are respectfully offered up, the worship of the mountain gods and the knots in the Batang dance, all of them are carefully and appropriately implemented according to the "old rules", and the order must not be reversed.

The population of the previous generation passed on everything to the people who came after them without reservation, which is the oldest way of transmission, and after years of infiltration, later people have learned all this.

Pray for rain, all things nourish, and the branches of tea trees also flutter a little emerald color.

Guyu tea is naturally also extremely fresh.

Mingqian tea is firmly held in people's memories because it was picked before the Qingming Festival. The young buds that sprouted in the spring cold material cliffs swayed slightly under the cold wind, revealing a little blue, and people who had been dormant for a winter liked this spring color, so the turquoise Mingqian tea was born.

In the Tang Dynasty, Ling Hu Dedi recorded in his compilation of the Book of Zhou that "the sting ... Tao Shihua" and other solar terms and phenological phenomena. It is based on this record, supplemented by other documents, that many believe that the climate of the Yellow River Basin during the Tang Dynasty was relatively warm.

But now in the Qingming Season, there may be rain and snow drifting on the northwest land, and the buds on the tea trees close their eyes tightly, hiding in the branches, refusing to show their faces. This is the wisdom of the plant, the wind outside is so big, the snow is so fierce, those early blooming flowers have been beaten down by the snow, precious tea buds, should not fall in such a wind and rain, you have to wait until the earth thaws, the frost dissipates, in order to lively stretch out the body, in the warm spring sun beautiful stretch a lazy waist.

Therefore, people drink tea and drink stubble during the rainy season of the valley.

Gansu Longnan belongs to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Basin, the weather is warm and humid, the valley rainy season, the tea garden is already lush, bustling, thin clothes, picking spring tea, a lively scene.

The taste of spring tea is light and astringent, but the timid taste on the tip of the tongue appropriately reminds people that this is spring tea, they have not yet been illuminated by the hot sun, they have not cultivated a round and full taste, and they are full of longing and love for the world, so the green expectations will surely be properly collected.

When the tea trees are full of green branches, they are rubbed, cellared, turned brown, and with time, become semi-fermented tea, fermented tea, in the reddish-brown and fragrant tea soup, the thin and clear green buds have become distant memories.

In the Hexi Corridor, people grow cotton, corn and soybeans. When the rain is in full swing and people sow seeds among the earth, this is the best time for spring and summer, the whole world is bright and shiny, and people are full of expectations with everything in the world.

Even the insects under the ground began to stir, and they were wrapped in the spring light and stirred. At about the same time as the germination of insects, people began to prevent mosquitoes, embroidered five poisonous sachets, and found male yellow from the cabinet - in May, it was necessary to dry the male yellow for five days before it was necessary to brew male yellow wine.

The solar terms guide people's lives, and people patiently live according to the solar terms, which is the way for Chinese to live with the heavens and the earth in respect and love.

When flowers fall into the city

□ Zhao Mei

The clear rain drenched people's thoughts about the deceased, and in the peach blossom spring rain, the thoughts became long and profound.

Spring and Jingming, everything grows. In the blossoming and falling of a tree, the "valley rain" came unexpectedly. Guyu ancient has "rain born a hundred grains" said, meaning sowing grain rainfall, is the best time to sow seeds and move seedlings, rain increases, in the field farmers, this festival is closely related to the harvest, the valley rain season to look forward to rain is their common wish.

According to the Huainan Zi, Gu Yu's origin originated from Cangjie's creation of characters, and the Yellow Emperor issued an edict in late spring and early summer, declaring the success of Cangjie's character creation and calling on his subjects to learn it together. On this day, an unusual rain fell, falling countless grains of rice, so posterity named this day Gu Yu, becoming one of the twenty-four solar terms.

"Gu Rain is the solar term that sows hope!" A quote from an agricultural technician pulled me into a verdant field where the summer vegetables of the plateau were grown. He said that in the past, it was possible to plant grains such as millet and millet during the rainy season of the valley, but now they are all replanted, and after May and June.

"Planting cotton before the valley rain, pointing beans after the valley rain", the north of the valley rainy season is a good season for field management. Communicate with friends in the south, they said that before and after the valley rain will pick tea, will also prepare for the wheat harvest, Jiangsu Suzhong, northern Jiangsu is wheat rice rotation, after the wheat harvest, put water to plant rice.

Everything grows vigorously. And I was also impressed by two spring ploughing maps, one is a traditional farming map, on the green Loess Plateau, between the mountain peach blossom trees, a middle-aged couple, a mule and a horse, are farming, the husband plows the land, the wife wields farm tools; the other is a man in the peach tree bush, a man pushing a small farm machine to farm.

Spring flowers and autumn moons, summer rain and winter sun, these originally beautiful things will double the beauty and hope, so that the hard work of sowing hope has more of a good intention, no matter how bitter it will not feel bitter, no matter how tired it will feel worthwhile.

The love of the countryside may be my deep-rooted, unshakable feelings. And the flowers that bloom in the spring always gently pull these emotions, so that I can feel the swaying of my state of mind in my daily ordinary life.

"Grass and trees will sprout, children will grow up, the train of years will not stop for anyone, and the sadness and joy of the platform of fate are all moments..." In the song, I experienced the richness and excitement of this world.

There is a kind of flower that blooms before and after the valley rain, that is, the peony that "moves the capital during the blossom season", so the peony is also called the "valley rain flower". April is the best time to admire peonies, at this time, Luoyang peonies have been opened for the first time.

I closed my eyes and imagined the prosperity of the peonies competing for glory, which was more than an unstoppable vitality! When he was young, he was ignorant and did not like to cultivate the grace and magnificence of peonies that began in sui, flourished in Tang, and song in the world. Thinking about it now, Xu is afraid of the withering after that enthusiasm.

The valley rain that cannot be erased in my heart is the cuckoo call in the fresh air under prince mountain in the morning; it is my cousin who holds a white peony in her hand and knocks on the painted red door with a sweaty head, and she walks for several miles, just so that I can see the peony when I am newly cured of a serious illness.

We planted the white peony in that simple little brick garden, full of hope and a vision of a better future. At that time, we were young and young, and we were only worried about the life and death of the flower, and the expectation of its bloom.

After recovering from my illness, I returned to a busy life, and the hut in the field had changed hands. A few years later, my cousin died unexpectedly.

In those years, I was afraid to see white peonies.

Suddenly, you will think of the rainy season in the valley, and the beautiful cries of cuckoos in the fresh air are graceful in the mountains. It migrates back to the countryside and tells people to hurry up and sow seeds: spring is coming to an end and summer is coming.

I thought I would never be able to let go of that emotion. But I didn't know the time was silent, and quietly rewrote everything. In the past few years, I have settled on that worry.

Regarding the valley rain, what I should remember is the rain of grain that fell when Cangjie made the characters successfully, or the person who sowed hope in the field, or the peony that was thick and warm?

What I saw before my eyes was the ordinary, fine, unknown ordinary flowers in the endless wilderness. They grow, open, fall, spring breeze and grow, naturally interpreting the years, leaving unintentional, spoiled and not shocked...

Watching the flowers blossom and fall calmly, you know that the flowers know the principle of going with the flow. As far as life is concerned, we, like flowers, need sunshine, rain and dew, love and hope!

There are villages in the toon

□ Pan Xinri

The toon trees are left by the ancestors, and they breed and multiply year by year along the courtyard, stretching out one by one, and even connecting with the neighbor's family, becoming a scenery in the village.

When spring comes, the toon in front of the house and behind the house quietly probes the branches to the window on the second floor, and without going out, you can see the whole process of the toon budding and germinating through the glass window.

People in the village like to eat toon, and when I think of scrambled eggs made from house to toon, I can't help but drool, and in those days, I always stood at the window and watched these branches, hoping to produce young buds as soon as possible. But these branches and branches seem to deliberately not be able to get over me, shaking the thin branches all day long, just refusing to spit buds.

After walking for two days with relatives, I returned home on Sunday, and only then did I enter the village entrance and smell a hint of fragrance in the distance. Hurriedly threw away the bag in his hand, ran to the tree, tiptoed, the familiar dots of dark red dotted among the branches, and finally emerged, a cluster of fat buds of rice, the second line in the branches, from top to bottom, staggered, as if to tie the old man's flexible bow. At sunset, the buds of the fat purple stems are smeared purple by the afterglow, emitting a seductive fragrance.

Within a few days, the trees would turn green, and the toon buds would grow into the soaring braids of the little girl. Old people say that the older the toon tree, the earlier it sprouts. The people in the village mostly pick toon seedlings before the valley rain, divided into stubble, second stubble and three stubble, and picked three times in succession, and then it was not delicious.

I heard that the toon tree is getting stronger and stronger, and if you don't break it, the buds will grow slowly. Therefore, when it rains in the valley, the people in the village will find bamboo poles, bend a hook with wire, tie it, and then pick toon tree by tree. But when the valley rain passes, the buds will be "raw hawthorn", old and rough, and can no longer be eaten. After a while, the toon began to bear fruit, the branches were scattered, and the tree stood tall. Bead-like small seeds, full of branches, blown by the wind, scattered beads all over the ground, the yard is filled with a rich fragrance.

There are many ways to eat toon, you can eat fried, pickled, you can also make soup, but my favorite thing to eat is toon fried eggs, that fragrant! Sigh, just like.

When I was a child, adults fried "toon fish" for us to eat. Grandmother's craftsmanship is the best, in the village is famous, she first took a leaf of the toon, a leaf to choose, wash, put in a basin with salt, after marinating water, beat two eggs in the bowl, put in the right amount of flour and water, stir well, thin mastery can use chopsticks to pull out the silk as just right. Then take out the pickled toon and wrap it in the batter, quickly put it into the hot oil pot, only to listen to the "squeak", the toon wrapped in the batter, suddenly tumbled and expanded, became a burnt yellow color, fished out of the oil pot, controlled the oil, eaten while hot, burnt and fragrant, delicious.

When there are many toon seedlings, they are sold on the street, a small handful, they all like to eat, they also like to buy, after all, it is seasonal, the season has passed, don't want to eat, only wait until the next year. Therefore, they do not want to miss the opportunity, and when they see it, they will buy a few to try it.

Toon is not only delicious in taste, but also has the medicinal effect of clearing heat and detoxification. Chinese medicine believes that toon taste bitter, cold, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, and strengthening the stomach; its taste is aromatic, and it can play a role in awakening the spleen and appetizing. There is a record in the "Tang Materia Medica" that "the leaves boil water can wash sores, scabies, and gangrene". "Lu Chuan Materia Medica" said: "Toon stomach, hemostasis, insecticide, treatment of dysentery." "The old family has sores on their bodies, so they mash a few handfuls of toon buds and garlic on the tree, and then put them on top, and slowly they will get better."

The toon in the countryside is full of temptation, and the countryside in the toon is full of memories. These, in our hearts, need to spend a lifetime, tasting and chewing on the taste.

The mountains and rivers are blue

□ Cheng Leilei

"The valley rains in the spring, and the mountains and rivers are blue." Gu Yu is the last festival of spring and also has the grandest spring light. Just like the green years of life, beautiful and full of yearning, carrying the hope of thriving. With full enthusiasm, it writes the last style of spring and the most beautiful prologue of summer.

Valley rain, as the name suggests, is sowing valley rainfall. At this time, the weather is mild and the rain is significantly increased, which is conducive to the rejuvenation of overwintering crops and the sowing of seedlings of spring sown crops. The rain of the valley rain is no longer as confusing and lingering as "the rain in the Qingming season", but the drip is crisp and clean, like "a hundred springs of tree branches". When it falls on the leaves, it is a little bit of verdant; when it falls on the field, it is a great harvest that makes people happy in autumn. "Rain and hundreds of valleys", the north and south of the great river, everywhere is a beautiful scene of all things growing and thriving.

Valley rain has three seasons. As soon as ping was born, due to the increase in rainfall, the duckweed filled the pond, and the oil was green and full of life. The second songbird whisks its feathers, and the songbird is the cuckoo. During the rainy season, cuckoos shake their feathers from time to time, and the cries of "cuckoo, cuckoo" can be heard everywhere in the green mountains, calling people to hurry into sowing labor. Sanhou Dai Sheng descended to Sang. Dai Sheng is a small bird that often inhabits mulberry trees, it does not have a gentle singing voice, but it has a beautiful feather. The bird flies to the top of the mulberry tree, which is a signal that the silkworm baby is about to grow.

The little lotus only shows its sharp corners. During the rainy season, the lotus in the pond begins to sprout, and dragonflies stand on it, admiring the vibrant lotus pond scenery. At this time, touching the lotus in the pond was the most joyful time of my childhood. Along the lotus seedlings, the feet are stepped on under the soft mud, when the feet feel that there is a hard object on the feet, a fierce child plunges into the water, uses his hands to cut the lotus out of the mud, washes in the pool water, eats raw, sweet and crispy.

A pot of freshly brewed pineapples. Guyu has been the season for tea picking since ancient times, when the buds and leaves are fat, emerald green, soft leaves, fresh taste and pleasant aroma. Guyu tea is what people often call pre-rain tea, also known as erchun tea. In the valley rain festival of "no wind and no rain and good weather", about three or five friends, brew a pot of new tea, sit in the green and green, new and enchanting courtyard, taste tea and talk, enjoy the sunset and melt gold, the evening wind is cool, the bamboo shadow reflects the twilight spring breeze, and the mood is very comfortable.

Red cherries, green plantains. The valley rain festival, the cherries began to ripen, a purr cherry, orange-red, hidden among the green cherry leaves, looking seductive, more tempting birds, yellow orioles flew over, through the dense leaves, stealing cherries. After a night of rain, the plantains became more and more green, and the raindrops on the leaves beat like notes. When the sun shines, the raindrops disappear in an instant, and the broad leaves become more and more vigorous, and they dance with the wind, showing a gorgeous waist posture to welcome the shade of summer.

"Gu Yu Three Dynasties Look at Peonies". Before and after the valley rain, it is when the peony flowers are in full bloom, and the purple flowers are red, competing for the beauty, so the peony flowers are also called the valley rain flowers. Peony's national color, heavenly fragrance, graceful and luxurious, painted the most gorgeous final chapter for spring, and also opened a gorgeous prelude to summer.

Gu Yu is the last glimpse left by spring to us. With our infinite attachment to spring and an infinite vision of a better life, we turn the time to a new page.

Cuckoos fly in

□ Wing Hua

Cuckoos come from nowhere

Rain, rain and drainage

The wheat seedlings that got up were in the soft wind

Thoughts on the undulating mound

The rain line is slender and the swallows are like shuttles

Weavers of wheat barns for the harvesters in June

Order melon beans on the banks of the field

Expose the baby's face

Crystal clear raindrops

Occasional sunlight sewn by clouds

A lamb that greets the cliffs

The young man in the bucket hat was going to travel a long way again

The corners of the eyes looking back were overflowing with rain

The old man who sent it to the door

Fire in a smoking pot

Dark and bright

Open the season with green (one outside)

□ He Junxiong

Spring tide, lyrical in a rain

Sow hopes and dreams

The fields nourish the soul

Valley rain matures along the direction of the season

A crop totem on the earth

Compose a magnificent poem of spring

Spring chapters, gentle flowing

A gorgeous flower swaying on the branches

The paths are colorful. Gu Yu's album

It carries the growth and process of farmland

With 100,000 greens, open up the seasons

Towards a happy time of happiness and well-being

Grass

The green that spreads over the mountains strives to grow

Become the most beautiful scenery in spring

The roots of the grass and trees, from between a stone crevices

penetrate. Can't stop the fiery feelings

A plant of grass, sticking out half of its head

The look is focused, and the charm of spring

Go deep into the seasons. A grain of fire

I was touched by the grace and heart of the grass and trees

Explore old houses, or the past of the trail

Meet the unexpected with a distant time

A plant that breaks through the constraints of the seasons

Find open-mindedness and comfort in the world