Chao News client reporter Duan Luojun correspondent Wang Ke
Birds make tung flowers, rain turns duckweed, in one after another rain, today, "Gu Yu" comes to the scene.
Valley rain, taken from the ancients "rain gives birth to a hundred grains", means that the cold wave weather is basically over, and the temperature rises faster. The just-concluded "Qingming" solar term still has a slight cold, and the word "Gu Yu" makes people feel full of vitality. If spring is an excerpt, then the beginning of spring is the prologue, and Gu Yu is the end.
At this time, under the moisture of the rain, the buds and leaves also grow thicker and the taste is more mellow. In this issue of "Talk about the Day", let's taste the rain in the valley together.
Photo by Lille
Rain gives birth to a hundred grains in late spring, a spring rain, and a warmth
Guyu is the last solar term of spring, and Hangzhou generally enters the "late spring" season from this time.
In just 15 days, the ancients divided the valley rain into three phases: one is the beginning of the ping, the second is the song dove brushing its feathers, and the third is the hoopoe descending on the mulberry. This means that after the rainfall, the duckweed begins to grow, and the chirping cuckoo tries its feathers to remind people that it is time to start planting, and at this time you can also see hoopoes on mulberry trees.
The weather that follows is also in line with the characteristics of the rainy season. In the next 10 days, Hangzhou will still be affected by waves of rain, almost every day or two to usher in precipitation, and the sunshine will appear in the "cracks" of the two precipitation processes. The rain in spring can be "moisturizing things silently", or it can be "big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate", or even stormy rain, in short, for a period of time in the future, sunny and rainy days, lightning and thunder, these weather elements will be squeezed in.
It is said that "a spring rain and a warm", in one rain after another, the green of Hangzhou is more and more jumping, approaching the proportion of "green, fat, red and thin", and then, the temperature will also go to a new level, and spring is slowly coming to an end. After all, 15 days after the valley rain, it should be the beginning of summer. Of course, the last solar term of spring does not mean that spring is about to end, for Hangzhou, there is still a moonlight scene in spring. As for the beginning of summer, it is always in late May.
In the season of valley rain, the ancients had the tradition of pasting "valley rain stickers" to convey people's psychology of harvest and tranquility; there was the custom of "walking valley rain"; on this day of valley rain, young women went to the village to visit relatives, meaning to integrate with nature and strengthen their bodies; in the north, there is also the custom of eating toon in valley rain, known as "the toon is as tender as silk before the rain".
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When the peony occupies the spring light, a spring flower is still waiting to be appreciated
It is in this season of "Gu Yu Sending Spring Back", the peony blooms in the drizzle, and this flower is also called "Gu Yu Flower", which is the only flower named after the solar term.
Since ancient times, literati and writers have never been stingy in praising peonies. For example, Li Bai's "clouds want clothes, flowers want to look, and the spring breeze blows Revlon"; Wang Wei's eyes "green and quiet and quiet, red clothes are shallow and deep" and so on.
Liuhe Pagoda peony appreciation, is a big flower event in Hangzhou spring. The prosperity of the peony in Hangzhou is inseparable from the "peony fan" Bai Juyi, the peony in his eyes, "the peerless only Xizi, the only peony in the world". During Bai Juyi's tenure as the assassin of Hangzhou, he searched for peonies all over the city, and finally bought a few plants in the Kaiyuan Temple of Liuhe Pagoda and planted them in front of his residence in Qiantang. So the people followed suit, and the whole city blew the "Hanger wind" of planting peonies.
The first flower trade wind of the valley rain solar term is peony, the second is the tulip, and the third is the neem flower. However, there is a difference between the time of the flower trade wind and the real flowering, take the peony as an example, during the Qingming Festival, the peony in Hangzhou has entered the full flowering period, and the flowering period is nearing the end. With the arrival of the valley rain solar term, it also means that the neem flowers are gone, and the trade winds of the flowers stop.
The wisteria flower corridor at the Huajiachi campus was photographed by Katya
However, the flowers in Hangzhou in April have never stopped, and now the wisteria flowers in the Huajiachi campus have bloomed, and under the 140-meter-long corridor, clusters of purple hang down from the corridor frame, like a purple cloud. The rhododendrons in Hangzhou Linping Park have also entered the full blooming period, and all kinds of rhododendrons are intertwined, and the colors are gorgeous and layered, spreading out layer by layer along the mountain-shaped terrain, attracting citizens and tourists to come one after another.
Greasy green long fresh valley rain spring old tea customers recommend self-drinking
In the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there has always been the custom of drinking "Guyu tea" during the Guyu solar term.
Gu Yu tea is also the tea before the rain, is the spring tea picked in the rainy season, and the tea before the Ming Dynasty highlights the characteristics of fresh and tender lightness, Gu Yu tea is also called "two spring tea", during the harvesting due to the increase in temperature, rain and so on, the buds and leaves are thicker, the content is rich, and the taste is more inclined to be fresh and mellow.
Lin Hejing, a literati of the Northern Song Dynasty's "Plum Wife and Crane", wrote in his poem "Tasting Tea and Sending Yue Monk Lingjiao" that "two shots are new under Baiyun Peak, greasy green and long fresh valley rain spring", Baiyun tea is considered to be the predecessor of West Lake Longjing, and the four words "greasy green and long fresh" show the quality characteristics of Guyu tea that is thick, tender and green, resistant to foaming and fresh and mellow. Many literati and writers have left poems praising Guyu tea, which shows its delicious taste and good quality.
Not only the taste, but also the price of Guyu tea is also exciting. The tea harvested before the Qingming Dynasty is called the pre-Ming tea, at that time, most of the young buds or one bud and one leaf were picked, and the Guyu tea was mostly one bud with one or two young buds. For the people of Hangzhou, Longjing will be listed in large quantities before the rain in this season, and the price is relatively close to the people. Taking West Lake Longjing as an example, in this year's West Lake Longjing of the same brand and grade, the price difference between Mingqian tea and Yuqian tea ranged from 2 to 4 times. According to a tea merchant in Longjing, a West Lake in Hangzhou, in fact, many old tea customers who buy self-drinking tea prefer high-quality and inexpensive pre-rain tea.
In the spring of the south of the Yangtze River, if you can drink a cup of mellow and sweet Guyu tea, you can "cleanse your thirst" and enjoy your body and mind. The brewing of Gu Yu tea is also exquisite, and the inscription of the "Tea Tasting Map" painted by Wen Zhengming in the Ming Dynasty reads, "Gu Yu is good at first passing the tea, and there are friends at the beginning of the Ding soup." "Initial boiling" is the appearance of water boiling slightly, and the water temperature of brewing Guyu tea should not be too high, and it is appropriate to 85 °C ~ 90 °C.
Guyu tea buds are full of shape, and when brewing, you can choose a glass cup to appreciate the graceful posture of the tea leaves flying up and down in the water, which is both appreciated and tasted, and has a long aftertaste.
Gu Yu has arrived, why not invite one or two friends to have a cup of Jiangnan Spring?
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