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Does "rotten grass for fireflies" mean that in the heat of the summer, the grass will turn into fireflies?

author:Badou Guoxue
Does "rotten grass for fireflies" mean that in the heat of the summer, the grass will turn into fireflies?

Students, do you know the idiom "rotten grass is fireflies"? Literally, "rotten grass for fireflies" means that our common fireflies are made from rotten grass. "Rotten grass for fireflies" is the first of the three summer seasons, so in the heat, will the rotten grass really become fireflies? Hahaha, of course not. How did this sentence come about? Originally, because fireflies like to inhabit humid, warm, grassy places, the ancients thought that fireflies were formed by rotten grass. In fact, phenology changes with the seasons is a very natural phenomenon, in the summer season fine grass decay, fireflies flying, but the ancients regarded them as very mysterious. There is also a small story about "rotten grass for fireflies".

In "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is a time when the girls guess the word puzzle, and Baoqin uses the word "flower" as the riddle. Xiang Yun immediately guessed that the mystery was the "firefly" of the firefly, and when everyone asked her why, she asked, "Isn't this firefly grass-based?" Everyone nodded and said yes. The ancients believed that "things move in phase", which means that all things affect each other and all things are interconnected, which is a very simple dialectical thought. When they give things the ability to change freely, they find sustenance for themselves. For example, the story of "Liang Zhuhua Butterfly" that we are familiar with now is not only a good wish, the ancients really believed that the phenomenon of "Liang Zhuhua Butterfly" existed.

After saying that the first day of the summer is rotten grass for fireflies, Eight Buckets will briefly talk about the remaining two waits. The second day of the summer is the rù heat, which means that the weather begins to become sweltering and the land is very humid. The third season is heavy rain, which means that there are often big thunderstorms, which gradually weaken the hot weather, and the weather begins to transition to autumn.

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