Time flies really fast, today officially entered the third phase of the beginning of summer, the weather is gradually heating up, at this time a lot of melons and fruits have begun to bloom, so the third candidate of the beginning of summer is also called "king gourd sheng", in which the king gourd is the representative of the melon fruit, is a creeping plant, its fruit is oval, the taste is sweet and delicious.
Today is also the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, and it is also an important day for Buddhism, this day is the day when it is necessary to give the founder of Buddhism Shakyamuni a statue of "purification", which is also called "bathing Buddha" or "pouring Buddha" in the folk, so this day is also called the Buddha bathing festival.
During the Buddha bathing festival, Buddhist believers will gather in the temple, then boil water with licorice, pour it into the bathing pavilion, and then use a wooden spoon to bathe the Buddha statue in turn.
According to legend, the Buddha Bathing Festival is to commemorate the birth of the founder of Buddhism Shakyamuni, so this day is also the birthday of Sakyamuni, generally the day of the birth of the Buddha will rain, because there is a legend that when Sakyamuni was born, there are nine dragons spitting perfume for its bath, therefore, Buddhists will hold a Buddha bathing activity on this day every year, and even the sky will rain.
In addition, the eighth day of April is also an important farming day, because this day is the third weather of the beginning of summer, which means that the weather is gradually heating up, and many crops need temperature to grow better, which is also the law of all things, but if it has been a sunny day, it will not be good, there is an old folk saying called "the eighth day of April is the most sunny", today is the eighth day of April, what is the saying about a sunny day? Let's find out.
This agricultural proverb means that if the sun is good on the eighth day of the fourth month and there is no rain, then it will be very hot in the middle of summer.
Today's eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is also the first month of summer and March, also known as "Mengxia", and the second month is "midsummer", this agricultural proverb means that the eighth day of the fourth month is sunny, so the weather may be hot in the fifth month of the lunar calendar.
This is because in summer, the sun will become relatively hot, and if there is no rain all the time, then the surface temperature will continue to rise, so it will become very hot in the middle of the fifth lunar month, so appropriate rainfall can effectively reduce the surface temperature.
This agricultural proverb says that if the sun is very strong on the eighth day of the fourth month, that is, the sun is very hot, then the crops will be relatively dry during the summer harvest.
The summer harvest is generally in the middle of April to the end of May of the lunar calendar every year, if the sun is very hot in early April, it also means that there is less rain recently, so in the summer harvest period in mid-April, the land will be drought, resulting in a lot of crops withering roots, which is also a sign that crops will fail.
This agricultural proverb is more interesting, many people may wonder what "rain beats the bed" means, in fact, the bed here is not a bed for sleeping, but a well, because in the past, "bed" and give refers to the bed of sleeping, but a general term, such as the "bed" in the poem "bright moonlight in front of the bed", which also refers to the well platform, not sleeping, many people may have been misunderstood.
The meaning of this agricultural proverb is that if it rains on the eighth day of the fourth month, it indicates that the summer harvest will be not only cool, but also the harvest will be good, which is a good omen.
In summary, the eighth day of the fourth month is the Buddha Bathing Festival, and the rain on this day is relatively good.
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