"The flowers bloom in an orderly manner, and the wind does not misbelieve".
The 24 solar terms are a unique time knowledge system of Chinese, which contains profound Chinese wisdom and also affects our production, life and way of thinking. Flowers bloom in different cold and warm seasons, the ancients had the "twenty-four flower trade winds" said, under the reflection of the solar terms, flowers have become a cultural symbol that integrates the beauty of nature and the beauty of humanity.
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Gu rain, the last solar term of spring.
At 21:59 on April 19, Beijing time, when the sun reached 30 degrees of yellow longitude, spring was goodbye and summer was coming.
In the twilight of spring, "the red and purple makeup forest is full of green pools, and the gossamer flies and flies", and nature blooms with vigorous vitality. At this time, walking on the South Street of Huanghe in Zhengzhou, on the two rows of catalpa trees, the small lilac flowers have been crawling all over the branches.
Looking up, the sea of purple flowers is just like the most beautiful April day in the world.
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Gu Yu has three waits: "One waits for Ping to be born, two waits for the chirping dove to brush its feathers, and three waits for the hoopoe to descend on the mulberry." ”
This means that during the rainy season, duckweed on the surface of the water begins to grow due to the increase in rainfall, and then the cuckoo flutters its wings and begins to remind people to sow seeds, and then the hoopoe begins to be seen on the mulberry trees.
In the Ming Dynasty, the book "Qunfang Spectrum" that introduced cultivated plants recorded: "Gu rain, Gu gets rain and is born." It also shows that the 24 solar terms are closely related to agricultural activities.
Before and after the valley rain, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is the best season for the growth of crops, and it is also the busiest and most important time for agricultural activities.
Rain gives birth to a hundred grains, and in nature, a prosperous face is coming.
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"The flowers are thicker after the valley rain", take advantage of the spring has not gone far, go and see the catalpa flowers in Zhengzhou.
As a street tree, the catalpa tree lets its flowers amaze the streets in spring before assuming the function of greenery.
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"Catalpa tree tall flowers want to insert the sky", on the tall catalpa tree, the flowers of a tree, look up, the purple catalpa flowers under the blue sky, like a string of "small bell wind" swaying in the wind, new and bright, such as brocade like xia.
Catalpa flowers give people a sense of moistness and elegance, "the green building purple cover is a child, and the drizzle and smoke are used as color cages". The breeze blows, there are bursts of fragrant fragrance in the air, the catalpa flowers are swaying in the wind, and from time to time a few fall to the ground, stepping on it, and it is like a paulownia flower. The crowd and traffic under the tall flower trees experience the romance of flowers all the way.
Catalpa tree can be said to be "both talented and beautiful", not only beautiful flowers, strong fragrance, but also has a very high environmental protection and economic value. Catalpa is native to China, is a tree of the family Catalpa Asteraceae, has a long history, has the reputation of "the king of a hundred trees", and has been recognized as a "human health tree species" by the United Nations Health Association.
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In addition, there is a proverb that "a thousand-year-old cypress, a 10,000-year-old cedar, is not as good as a branch of a catalpa tree", which shows that both the official and the folk recognize its value.
In the twilight of spring, the catalpa tree allows you to blossom. Let's go to see the catalpa tree flowers, in Zhengzhou, the best place to watch is the North Street of the Yellow River, under the tall and straight catalpa tree, take a walk, look up to see the "thousands of flowers", and appreciate this poetic twilight spring scroll.