Summer, April Festival
Standing, building also, summer, false also
Things are false at this time
Modern Cheng Zhang Flower And Grass Insect Diagram (Partial)
This picture of flowers and grass insects was painted by the Haipai painter Cheng Zhang, who was originally from Xin'an, Anhui Province, and lived in Shanghai in his later years. The flower cordyceps in the picture is rendered in ink coloring, the color is bright and clean, and there are grasshoppers standing on the green leaves, as if they are grunting, heralding the arrival of summer. The whole work is full of fun, bright colors, elegant and elegant with the pen, very charming, full of beautiful beauty.
Dou refers to the southeast, wei is Lixia, Lixia is the first solar term of summer. Spring is quietly hidden, we have walked through the mid-spring and Mengchun; the summer is beginning to grow, everything bids farewell to the budding period, and officially enters the vigorous growth period.
Before and after the summer, it is the season of early rice planting in the north and south of the river, as an important agricultural festival, the ancient "Lixia" also has an important custom. In ancient times, the emperors would lead hundreds of officials to the southern outskirts of the capital to hold a summer ceremony, and all the monarchs and courtiers wore vermilion dresses, with vermilion jade pendants, and even horses and flags were scarlet to express their prayers for a good harvest and good wishes.
In the folk, there are customs such as eating eggs and weighing in the summer.
"Li Xia weighs people lightly and heavily, and says that laughter and noise on the hanging beam are noisy", Li Xia has the custom of weighing people when eating lunch. When weighing, people hang a large wooden scale at the entrance of the village or in the gate, and children sit in baskets or stools, and hang on the scale hook to weigh them, which means that lixia can avoid summer.
The image comes from the Internet
Legend has it that the custom of Weighing Lixia is related to the story of Liu Adou. After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang entrusted Ah Dou to his stepmother Lady Sun to raise him. Lady Sun weighed Ah Dou every year to prove that she had not treated Ah Dou badly. On his deathbed, Zhuge Liang instructed Tuo Meng to visit Ah Dou once a year, and the day of the entrustment happened to be Li Xia. Since then, every summer, Meng Yu has kept his promise to come to Shu to visit. A few years later, after Emperor Wu of Jin destroyed the Shu state, he took Ah Dou captive. However, Meng Yu did not forget the instructions of The Prime Minister, and every year Li Xia visited and weighed Ah Dou to verify whether Ah Dou was treated badly by Emperor Wu of Jin. Therefore, people weigh themselves in the summer to pray for good luck and health and longevity.
"On the day of Mengxia, the heavens and the earth begin to intersect, and all things are beautiful." The three seasons of Lixia are full of vitality: the first time the grasshoppers sing, the second earthworms come out, and the third waits for the king melon to be born; it is said that the weather is getting hotter, the grasshoppers are constantly chirping, the earthworms are also drilling out of the ground, the vines of the melon fruits in the field have accelerated the speed of climbing and growth, and the feeling of summer has gradually become stronger, and everything has grown up here.
"To know spring and summer, Zhonglu Qi Zhu Ming." Earthworms who teach, the king melon self-synthesis. ”
When the sunny day is warm and the wheat is fresh, the green grass is better than the flowers
The Anhui Museum is also about to usher in the early summer
The green shade paves the field, refreshed, and the wind is smooth
Lixia also encourages us to be high-spirited
A life that blooms like a summer flower...