Sunny day warm wind, all things are beautiful (24 solar terms)

Pictured: Shizui Village, Yexi Town, Yuexi County, Anhui Province, surrounded by morning fog, fascinating. Photo by Yu Feiyue: Recently, peonies bloomed in the botanical garden in Baoding City, Hebei Province, and the flowers were blooming to welcome the arrival of summer. Photo by Jing Yuanping

LiXia

"At four o'clock, the weather is urgent, and the wind brings heat in one night." Spring has not yet finished the journey from south to north, and summer can't wait to follow. Every year around May 6 of the Gregorian calendar, the sun reaches 45 degrees of ecliptic longitude, which is the day of summer. Lixia is the seventh of the twenty-four solar terms, and it is also the first solar term of summer, and its arrival heralds the alternation of spring and summer, and the arrival of summer.

May 5 this year is The Day of Summer.

Green shade paving the field for new light

Dou refers to the southeast, and wei is Lixia. The "Explanation of the Seventy-two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order" explains: "LiXia, the April Festival... Summer, fake also. Things are false at this time. The word "false" here means "big." In fact, if the average daily temperature rises steadily above 22 degrees Celsius according to climatological standards, it is the beginning of summer. Before and after the establishment of summer, only the area south of the line from Fuzhou to Nanling on the mainland really entered the summer, and the average temperature in most areas was between 18 and 20 degrees Celsius, which was the mid-spring and late spring season of "all kinds of red and purple dou fangfei".

Lixia has three waitings, the first waiting for the grasshopper to sing; the second waiting for the earthworm to come out; and the third waiting for the king guasheng. At this time, the frogs begin to clamor for the arrival of summer, earthworms are busy helping farmers turn over the soil, and wild vegetables in the countryside are also competing with each other to grow day by day.

Longmu day long steamed green wheat

"On the day of Mengxia, the heavens and the earth begin to intersect, and all things are beautiful." Entering the summer, the temperature will rise significantly, the thunderstorm will increase, and after the birth of spring, everything will flourish in the summer, and the crops will enter the peak season, so the agricultural proverb has the saying of "spring for the day, summer for the time".

"Lixia to see summer", Lixia season, is the winter wheat flower filling, rape is close to maturity, but also the key period of large-scale planting of early rice. "Three days of hoeing everywhere in the summer", at this time the weeds grow very fast, "one day without hoeing, three days can not hoe", the cultivation of hoe grass can not only remove weeds, drought resistance and stain-proof, but also improve the ground temperature, accelerate the decomposition of soil nutrients, to promote cotton, corn, sorghum, peanuts and other crops seedling growth has a very important significance.

Natsuki yin yin is lovely

Since ancient times, the mainland has attached great importance to the Lixia festival, and the traditional folk customs associated with it are rich and colorful. "Lixia egg" can be said to be the most classic food on the day of Lixia. In addition to eating eggs, there is also the custom of weaving egg sets with colored thread and hanging eggs on the chest of children or hanging them on a tent. Kids also love to play egg-bumping games, winning with eggshells that are firm and not broken.

In Lixia, some places also taste "three fresh" ("three fresh" has "three fresh" "three fresh", "tree three fresh" and "water three fresh"), "eight new" (cherry, new shoots, new tea, new wheat, tender broad beans, Yanghua radish, anchovy and yellow fish), eat black rice cake, glutinous rice, shrimp noodles and other food customs.

"Fang Fei Xie should not hate, Xia Mu Yin yin is lovely." The picturesque spring is over, and the lush foliage of the summer trees is equally intoxicating. Especially in this early summer season, the traces of spring are still there, and the real heat has not yet arrived, which is really pleasant and pleasant.

Small full

"Loquat yellow after the bayberry purple, it is the small farmhouse full of sky." After entering the summer, the appearance of the summer day becomes clearer. Every year around May 21, when the sun reaches 60 degrees of ecliptic longitude, it is a small full. Xiao Man is the eighth of the twenty-four solar terms, at this moment, the grains of summer ripe crops such as northern barley and winter wheat have borne fruit, gradually full, but not yet mature, about the late stage of milk ripening, so it is called Xiao Man.

May 21 this year is the day of the small full day.

The ears of wheat are first chicked

The small man is full of solar terms that reflect the phenology of agriculture. The "Explanation of the Seventy-two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order" explains: "Xiao Man, mid-April. The little one who is full, the thing is as small as it is full. "During the period from Xiaoman to Mangsang, plants grow vigorously, the temperature difference across the country is further reduced, precipitation is also increasing, and in some places there will be high temperature weather above 35 degrees Celsius, and the feeling of summer is stronger."

Xiao Man has three waits, the first wait for the bitter vegetable show, the second wait for the death of the grass, and the third wait for the wheat autumn solstice. By this time, the bitter vegetables were already flourishing, the shade-loving grasses with fine branches began to wither under the strong sunlight, and the wheat began to ripen.

Plant new seedlings all over the field

"Plum golden apricot fat, wheat blossom snow white cauliflower thin." Except for the northeast and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the average temperature in various parts of the mainland has reached more than 22 degrees Celsius, and the summer ripening crops have matured from south to north, and the southern Jiangsu region has entered the summer harvest and summer planting busy season at the end of May.

"Small full dissatisfaction, dry and broken field" "small full dissatisfaction, mango seed does not care", in the southern region folk proverb, "full" describes the surplus of rainwater, if the field is not enough water, it may cause the field to dry and crack, and even when the mango is planted, it is impossible to plant rice.

Green shade low new silk fragrance

"Mulberry leaves are fattening up and eating full", before and after Xiao Man, the silkworm is about to start cocooning. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where sericulture is flourishing, it is customary to celebrate the "Silkworm Festival" during the Xiaoman season. The most distinctive feature of the "Silkworm Festival" is to make flour into a cocoon, tie a straw mountain with straw, and put the "face cocoon" made of flour on it, symbolizing the harvest of silkworm cocoons.

From xiaoman, the weather becomes hot and humid, and modern Chinese medicine believes that you can eat more foods with spleen and dampness effects, such as red beans, mung beans, winter melons, loofahs, etc.

"Small full, small full, wheat grain gradually full." The prelude to the harvest also kicked off the prelude to summer busyness. In this season of nurturing the harvest, strolling on the ridge, gently picking up a handful of wheat ears, the meaning of small full quietly blooms in the palm of the hand, look down and take a deep breath, you can smell the happy taste of the day that slowly matures and full - small and full, everything is just right.

People's Daily ( 2022-05-03 06 edition)