In a beautiful Chinese world
From spring and summer to autumn and winter, from solar terms to colors
From hour to place name, from age to month
All given poetic names
It's beautiful to hear
Then you know, about summer
How many other names do you don't know?
summer
The green trees are thick and the summer days are long, and the building platform is reflected into the pond.
- Tang Gao Biao, "Summer in the Mountain Pavilion"
Everyone suffers from the heat, and I love the long summer.
--Don · Li Ang's "Summer Sentences"
The small fan leads to a slight coolness, and the summer days are long.
- Qing Gu Taiqing, "Bodhisattva Man, Dragon Boat Day Chrysanthemum"
I don't know the heat, but the summer is long.
- Don Baijuyi, "Watching the Harvest"
Many verses that appear "summer" are mostly paired with "long". Indeed, summer days are always long. Long shadows, long skylight, long cicadas and frogs... May it be endless, as clear as yesterday.
Zhu Ming
Spring is Qingyang, summer is Zhu Ming,
Autumn is Bai Zang, and winter is Xuanying.
- "Arya Shitian"
Bright morning in the morning, the day is long.
—Bai Juyi, "Pei Chang Attendant with the inscription Rose Rack Eighteen Rhymes, See Cause Widely Thirty Rhymes"
Spring light only went and Zhu Ming. Nian Hua was only secretly shocked.
- Song Zhang Xuan, "Ruan Langgui Golden Crow Rabbit is the most ruthless"
Water Pavilion Zhu Mingjing, don't be, sad.
——Song Duanshi "Bu Operator, Deep Courtyard Flower Paving"
Because the summer is "red and bright", it is also called "Zhu Ming" in summer. In the writings of the pre-Qin miscellaneous families, there is a saying that "spring is Qingyang, summer is Zhuming, autumn is Baizang, and winter is Xuanying". Future generations of poets will use Zhu Ming or Zhu Xia to refer to summer, and Liu Kezhuang's "Zhuying Taijin Rain Miserable" in the Song Dynasty wrote, "The Green Emperor ended in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye Zhu Ming", the Green Emperor referred to spring.
Flame festival
Cycling at night, crossing the border and the Flame Festival.
- Tang Qianqi, "Send Judge Xue to Shu"
The festival of sorrow, the royal of Zhurong.
- Jin Li Qi, "Sorrowful Four Times"
The original meaning of the Yangu character is generally considered to refer to the rise of the fire, and it can also refer to incineration. Extended from incineration to hot, extremely hot, such as "hot", "hot summer" and so on. According to historical records from the pre-Qin era, the ancestors believed that when the summer was hot, it was the fire god Zhu Rong who was in power. In the height of summer, the sun is fierce and the cicadas are noisy, and summer is indeed a restless and hot season.
Long win
Spring is for occurrence, summer is a long win.
- "Arya Shitian"
If the summer is hot, if the flame does not believe, the grass and trees will not grow;
If the grass and trees do not grow, they will win and win.
- Beiqi Liu Day, "Liu Zi Zhuyan"
This word "win" is through "profit". Those who can make the grass and trees abundant are summer, so the ancients also called summer "long win". Summer is a season of lush leaves and vigorous vitality, not only the scorching heat, but also the turquoise summer mountains, lotus leaves full of ponds, birds and cicadas. It is all up to the viewer whether the mind changes with the situation or the situation changes with the heart.
Three summers
Knowing that the three summers are hot, today is very unique.
——Gule Fu "Four O'clock Song of the Midnight Night, Summer Song"
Three summers have been halfway, and the steaming is turbid.
- Ming Han Riyun, "Summer Leisure"
The ancients used the lunar calendar, with the fourth month of the lunar calendar as Mengxia, May as midsummer, and June as seasonal summer, collectively known as the "three summers". This period is also a busy period for farmers.
Nine summers
The sun and the moon have moved and it has been nine summers.
- Dongjin Tao Yuanming, "Rongmu"
Nine summers know how to travel in the summer, and the breeze blows the water.
- Song Guoyin, "Guiyunxi"
Pedestrians are as hot as fire in nine summers, and the breeze is suddenly full here.
——Song Wu Fu, "Five Songs of Early Travel"
In the nine summers of silence and boredom, the eaves are leaning on the wall waiting for the breeze.
- Tang Liu and "Mid-Summer Day Sleeping"
Summer generally lasts three lunar months and lasts about 90 days. There are three months per month, and a total of nine months in three months, so it is called "nine summers". The Southern Dynasty Liang Xiaotong's "Liang Zhaoming Collection" is included, "Three volts gradually end, nine summers will thank." ”
New summer
The good scenery enters the new summer, and the ghost lies in the house.
——Song Lu You, "Early Summer Night Talent"
The path of the remnant monks is quiet at night, and the new summer forest pond is warm and cool.
——Song Chen's "April 8th with my son and nephew to the best couple"
The fourth month of the lunar calendar has just entered summer, and the azaleas bloom in the mountains, which is the first stage of the three summers, and the ancients gave it many nicknames, and the new summer is particularly easy to understand. A "new" word is as cute as new rice, new year, and new clothes. Every new summer is a new and shining moment, as if it were just the first sight.
Mengxia First summer
Mengxia grass and trees are long, and the trees around the house are scattered.
——Dongjin Tao Yuanming, "Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Part One"
Jiangnan Meng summer, cizhu shoots as weaving.
The mirage is the pavilion, and the frog sound is the orchestra.
- Tang Jia Yi [yǎn] "Jiangnan Mengxia"
The first summer is still peaceful, and the herbs have not stopped.
——Nanbei Dynasty Xie Lingyun "You Chishi into the Sea of Sails"
Shou Xia Qing and Ruhuiyi, the mood is like Tang Yu.
- Song Xu Yueqing, "First Summer"
Just as Meng Chun is the first month of spring, "Meng Xia" is also the first month of summer, and "First Summer" refers to the time of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. At this time, the summer day is gentle and lovely, the grass and trees experience warm wind and rain, lush and stretched out, sit in the slightly cool courtyard, cook a pot of good tea, and watch the quiet beauty of the years.
Sophora order
Huai order, refers to summer also.
——Ming Yangshen, "Art Forest Felling Mountain, Huai Preface"
Mountain garden locust order, green shade thick Xiao warbler cry.
The sound of the ice strings is soft.
- Ching Lu Qiuke "Brahmin Introduction to Summer"
Sophora flowers bloom in early summer, and the off-white flowers are clustered together, like strings of pearls dotted between green branches and green leaves, and the fragrance is overflowing, so the early summer of April is also called "locust order", which is a poetic name. Moreover, in the hearts of the ancients, the locust has the style of a gentleman, upright, hard, and has a broad shade, and the ancient locust is also a symbol of hometown and ancestors.
Midsummer Midsummer
Midsummer bitter nights are short, and Kaixuan is slightly cool.
- Don Dufu, "Summer Night Sigh"
In the middle of summer in Jiangnan, it rains like a river.
- Tang Fan Xun, "Jiangnan Midsummer"
The forest in front of the hall is clear, and the yin is stored in midsummer.
——Dongjin Tao Yuanming, "Two Songs of the Book of He Guo (Part I)"
The Dragon Boat Festival is in the middle of summer, and the time is getting longer.
- Don Li Longji, "Dragon Boat"
Midsummer and midsummer are the midsummer seasons of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. There is a small summer forest with trees in front of Mr. Wuliu's hall, and there is a Dragon Boat Festival in the Tang Xuanzong Palace, do you also have your own summer idyllic dream.
Ji Xia
In the summer of the Jiangnan season, the body is hot and sweaty.
- Tang Fan Deng, "Jiangnan Jixia"
The climate in the middle of summer is rewarding from here.
- Tang Baijuyi, "Yongchongli Guanju"
The last month of summer, the sixth month of the lunar calendar, is called Jixia. "The moon of summer, the sun in the willow, in the faint fire, in the dankui." It can be seen that the last moment of summer is always extremely hot. Looking forward to a summer-specific thunderstorm, dissipating the heat and bringing a touch of coolness.
Long summer
Qingjiang hugged the village flow, and Changxia River Village was quiet.
- Don Dufu, "Jiangcun"
The wind is clear in the market of Changxia Village, and the eaves tooth swallow has been generated.
——Zhang Yu, "Three Summer Songs"
The cool breeze is everywhere, and the long summer is weightless.
——Song Zhou Bida, "Another Rhyme and Drink"
Long summer, originally refers to the sixth month of the lunar calendar, can also refer to summer, long means that the summer days are particularly long. In the Suwen Six Verses of Tibetan Elephant Theory, it is said, "Spring wins long summer, and long summer beats winter." "In this season, the literati like to sit alone, silent, leisurely, drink a cup of Zen tea, and poetry comes from the heart.
Late summer
After the rain and late summer, sit in Beiyan together.
——Tang Du judged "Five Songs of Princess Yiyang with Wei Chengqing"
The lotus fragrance is sold in late summer, and the chrysanthemum is in the new autumn.
- Tang Luo Binwang, "Late Pojiang Town"
Late summer, as the name suggests, is the end of summer. In late summer, the sun is still like fire, the sound of cicadas is still lingering, the sound of warblers is lingering, and summer has returned.
The modern poet Haiko says in his poem:
To every river and every mountain,
Take a warm name.
Although the mountains and rivers are not mine,
But I have this magnificent mountain and river.
We can't go back in time,
But how lucky,
Such a beautiful name can still be read today.
May we always remember,
So much good we've had,
Good Cheyenne to all!
Article source | Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple
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