In spring, flowers are "flower dan"; in summer, trees are the "protagonists". Under the fiery sun, the shade of the trees is a favorite of many people.
Lixia, the seventh solar term of the year. The first solar terms of summer, indicating the beginning of summer. "Xia" originally referred to people in the Central Plains. The Shuowen Jiezi says: "Xia, the Chinese people also." Duan Yu's note: "The meaning of extension is Daye." "Xia" is a hieroglyph that indicates an upright, tall person. So the extension of righteousness is that all things grow. Chinese named his own nation "Huaxia", which means beautiful and tall, is it full of self-confidence? "Standing", "construction also", different from the general beginning, "construction" is erected like a building, so that people can see. Spring planting, summer long, autumn harvest, winter hiding, spring everything is growing, but in summer, this kind of growth makes people clearly see.
The Qing Dynasty poet Wang Guowei said: "The most important thing is that the human world cannot be retained, and Zhu Yan cijing flowers and trees." "Spring is gone without hesitation, completely irrespective of how much we give up and keep it. There are three seasons for the Lixia Festival, the first of which is "the sound of grasshoppers", and the earth dogs bark. Some people say that the grasshopper is a frog, or a rat. The Southern Song Dynasty Minister Jia Xiangdao described the grasshopper as follows: "The shape of the grasshopper is the most difficult, with long teeth, legs, short heads, and sharp points. "Isn't this a dirt dog?" Completely unrelated to frogs and rats. In the second "earthworm out", the Sheng Tang poet Chu Guangxi took the earthworm as a representative of pastoral life: "The earthworm comes out of the soil, and Tian Wu flies with me." The third "Wang Guasheng". King melon is a perennial vine, red and clear oval fruit hanging on the vine, very cute, is a heat-clearing, raw Chinese medicine. After leaving the countryside, I never saw Wang Gua again.
The spring, summer, autumn and winter in time are collectively called the "four hours"; the spring, summer, autumn and winter in the solar terms are combined with the spring equinox, autumn equinox, summer solstice and winter solstice. This is all an astronomical division of the sun's position on the ecliptic. Climatologically, five consecutive days of average temperature exceeding 22 °C are counted as summer. Therefore, "Lixia" and "entering summer" are not the same thing. Of course, the same is true for spring, autumn and winter.
In spring, flowers are "flower dan"; in summer, trees are the "protagonists". Under the fiery sun, the shade of the trees is a favorite of many people. "The spring is silent and the stream is silent, the shade of the trees shines on the water and loves the sun and soft" "Borrow and sit on the rock in front of the door, and the willow pavilion is cool at noon"... All are poems that enter the textbook. At the time of the vernal equinox, the direct point of the sun crosses the equator from south to north, and the days in the northern hemisphere are getting longer and longer, and in the summer it is more pronounced. Gao Biao, a general at the end of the Tang Dynasty, wrote: "The green trees are thick and long in summer, and the reflection of the building platform into the pond. The crystal curtains are blowing in the breeze, and the shelves are full of roses and a courtyard of incense. "Zhao Zhao Wufu was also a great poet, so we say that the Tang Dynasty was an era of poetry.
In the old days, there were some interesting customs in Lixia, but unfortunately, after urbanization, they became more and more distant. For example, fighting eggs is to put the hard-boiled eggs, the tip of the tip to the tip, and the broken concedure. Spring equinox vertical egg, summer fighting egg, I was a poor egg when I was a child, I can't take it out and put it up or fight.
The more common custom of Lixia is to "call summer". In the crowd of men, women and children, strong men picked up a scale, and children were excited and nervous, taking turns standing in the basket and weighing weight. The mischievous child sat in the basket and drew a scolding, because the basket woven from the bamboo basket did not stand up to the toss. The scale can only be slowly moved from small numbers to large, indicating that the longer and heavier, it means health. When the scale pole is still high and upturned, stop quickly and report the number. The child roared and asked his parents how many pounds they had last year, and then calculated how much they had grown. Autumn harvest and winter hiding, people and animals, long fat in winter and spring. At that time, I only hated myself for not being fat, just like now I only hate myself for not being thin.
The most comfortable season of the year is early summer. Look at the poets of the Song Dynasty, what they are doing. Su Shunqin said: "The trees are full of shade at noon, and the dream is flowing when the warblers are flowing", sleeping in the daytime; Su Shi said: "The water under the blue screen window is smokey, and the sound of chess is frightening the day", which is also sleeping in the daytime; Yang Wanli resigned from the official and did not do it, slept until he woke up naturally in the morning, and made up for it at noon: "The day is long and sleeps ruthlessly, idly watching the children catch willow flowers." Men are like this, women are the same, there is no need to find a reason, Zhu Shuzhen said: "Xie but the begonias are flying all the way, and the sleepy weather is getting longer and longer."
Man is on a journey, involuntarily. "When to have a pastoral pleasure, to sleep until the earth is cooked?" From ancient times to the present, the freedom to sleep is the most rare freedom. Fake white-collar workers like us, real blue-collar workers, fast-paced, stressful, and sleeping during the day is a very luxurious thing.