Say goodbye to the winter solstice and usher in a little cold. At 4:49 on January 6, Beijing time, the penultimate solar term in the 24 solar terms was ushered in - Xiaohan. "The sound of clogs startles the pheasant, and the wind hyacinth reports the plum blossoms", at this time, the plum blossoms begin to bloom, a branch, a tree, become the most beautiful primrose in the cold winter.
Tianjin folk customs experts and columnists introduced by the National Day, the budding, long leaves, flowering, fruiting, leaf yellow and leaf fall of plants, the dormancy, recovery, first song, breeding, migration, as well as the first frost, thawing, etc., these natural rhythm phenomena are called phenology. According to the phenological characteristics, each solar term is subdivided into "three phases", one every five days, and a total of 72 phases throughout the year.
According to the National Day, solar terms phenology is the "language" of nature, which transforms complex climate change into vivid and beautiful phenological phenomena, and fully demonstrates the natural and cultural beauty of solar terms.
On the basis of the seventy-two waits, the wise ancients sorted out the "twenty-four flower trade winds" according to careful observations, also known as the flower trade winds, as the name suggests, the wind that should come during the flowering period, so it is called the letter, and the so-called "wind has an appointment, the flowers are not wrong, and the years are not negative".
The twenty-four flower trade winds start from the small cold and end to the end of the valley rain, covering a total of eight solar terms, each of which has three kinds of flowers, starting from plum blossoms and ending with neem flowers. The flower trade winds of the Xiaohan solar term are plum blossoms, camellias, and daffodils in order.
"The cold and light mountains in the south are self-blue. Plum blossoms in the courtroom, the first spring news. "Plum blossoms are the first to sense the warmth of the ground freeze, and then the first to convey the message of spring, adding a touch of bright color to the bleak world.
Said by the National Day, pine, bamboo, plum and called "three friends of the cold", plum blossom and orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum and the same "four gentlemen in the flower", known as the proud snow frost of the noble state of the world praised. There are countless people who love, respect, and are obsessed with Mei in all dynasties.
Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty recorded such a story in "Mengxi Writings": the poet Lin Kui was hidden in the lonely mountain of Hangzhou, and never married, but he liked to plant plums and raise cranes, and called himself "taking plum as his wife and crane as his son", and was called "plum wife and crane". Lin Kui's poem "Little Plum in the Mountain Garden" is well-known, in which "the shadow is sparse and the water is shallow, the dark fragrance floats in the dusk of the moon" vividly depicts the graceful and fragrant style and charm of the plum blossoms, and is known as the "swan song of the eternal Yongmei".
The most beautiful Xiaohan, but a cut of plum fragrance. At this time node of "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new", you might as well make an appointment with three or five friends to go to a plum blossom appointment, or tread the snow to find the plum, or explore the plum blossom, and the breath of spring in the "dark fragrance floating" is also full of joy, which can't help but make people happy.
Co-ordinator: Liu Xinhui, Shao Xiangyun
Reporter: Zhou Runjian
Poster production: Feng Juan
Jointly produced by Xinhua News Agency and Tianjin Branch
Produced by the Festival Studio
Source: Xinhua News Agency