Sting
At 16:54 on March 5, 2021, we ushered in the stinging festival. Sting, the third solar term of spring, marks the beginning of mid-spring. At this time, the earth rejuvenates, the sky thunders, the grass and trees germinate, and the stings first awaken. The heavens and the earth have woken up and warmed up.
Twenty-four solar terms
2021.03.05
"Sting is the Sound of Spring"
Author/Huang Yaohong
Excerpt from "Heaven and Earth Have Festivals" Life, Reading, and New Knowledge Triptych Bookstore
Reading: Jing Yidan Soundtrack: Wu Na - All Things Resonate
The sky was quiet all winter.
Until one day, that quiet time was finally wet by a spring rain that was warm and cold at first.
At this time, the brushstrokes of "Nine-Nine Cold Map" are gradually filled with the color of the garden willows, the swaying heart of the sap of grass and trees can be heard in the sloping wind and drizzle, and the footsteps of spring, from resounding in the wind to rising on the water, and finally trembling on the branches.
Finally, the sky was like the mythical Pangu, with the power of a winter, dispelling the silence with lightning, shaking the mountains and rivers with thunder, and making a sharp scream pass through the formation.
This earth-shattering thunderbolt is a sting.
Shock sting, formerly known as "Qi Sting" in the Han Dynasty, to avoid the Han Jing Emperor. This is the third of the twenty-four solar terms and the third of spring, marking the beginning of mid-spring.
The Seventy-Two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order put it this way: "The February Festival... All things are shocked, and the earthquake is thunder, so it is known that the sting is stung, and it is the sting that frightens and leaves. "The stinger, the animal who hides in the winter, does not drink or eat; the starter, the spring thunder awakens the hibernating animal."
The warm wind is the hand of spring, and the sting is the sound of spring.
When the thunder of the sting rings, you will suddenly open up: it turns out that there is no season with only one face, just as there is no life that has only one possibility.
In spring, there is the femininity of the drizzle of the flowers, the masculinity of the clouds exploding, the cutting whisper of the bowed head and the low eyebrows, and the stone of king kong's angry eyes.
The sting is a spring call.
"Nine nine plus one nine, ploughing cattle everywhere." After the sting, a large area of Jiangnan paddy fields was full of spring plowing.
Whenever this happens, old buffalo work in the fields. The plough was hammered over, and the dirt was like a book page turning over.
The word "cultivation" fills the heart with the smell of grass.
Ploughing and reading, reading and ploughing. In the thousand-year-old farming civilization, writing is called pen cultivation, and Yantai is called Yantian. For us, cultivation is the most beautiful posture of life and the greatest philosophy of survival.
The beauty of the sting, the majesty of the sound, the charm of the color, the grace of the sound.
"First, Tao Shihua; Second, Cang geng (that is, yellow oriole) singing; third waiting, the eagle turns into a dove." This is what the ancients described as the three stings.
It is impossible to imagine a spring without peach blossoms. It wasn't just incomplete, it was simply the loss of the soul of spring.
The old country house in the memory, the black tile mud wall, simple and damp. However, just in the corner of the low stove house, a tree of peach blossoms blooms as scheduled every year.
Perhaps, the aesthetics of a country boy are enlightened from a peach blossom?
"The peach is dying, scorching its glory." The son of Yu Gui, it is advisable to his room. ”
The love endorsement of the ancient Chinese is actually not a rose, but a peach blossom. This origin can be traced back to the Book of Poetry. The beauty of the peach blossom fits the romance and warmth of the unexpected encounter of the young woman, and echoes the shyness and color of the secret of the heart. With the temperament and endowment of peach blossoms, there is really no reason not to speak for the fate and love of the world.
"Last year, in this door today, people's faces were full of peach blossoms. People don't know where to go, and peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze. ”
Cui Hu's poem does not have a beautiful sentence, only allowing the imagery of the human face and the peach blossom to be repeatedly superimposed in time. It is in this overlap that people read the obsession of the depths of love, and also read the vicissitudes of things and things.
Just as we don't know much about the hundred worms, we are extremely unfamiliar with the birds. How could we, like Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, and Wei Yingwu, really give our eyes and ears to the yellow warbler on the branch?
Our knowledge of the yellow warbler may only be in the poem.
"Two yellow orioles singing green willows, a row of egrets on the blue sky." "Desert paddy field flying egret, yin yin summer wood yellow oriole." "Alone and pitiful, the grass grows on the side, and there are yellow orioles and deep trees singing"...
Unlike the stinging thunder, Huang Li is the singer of spring, an all-round singer who composes lyrics and sings.
The eagle transforms into a dove, the third sting.
Doves, cuckoos also. The ancients saw this bird and thought it was an eagle. In their view, this incarnated bird "pecks softly, cannot catch birds, stares at hunger, and becomes obsessed." In the signs of the twenty-four solar terms, this word "transformation" is always seen, such as the second season of hanlu is "the finches enter the water as clams", that is, the colorful feather birds and finches have turned into seashore shells.
Could this be an expression of the ancestors' reincarnation of time and life?
Compared with the chirping of the yellow oriole, the cuckoo sound has an extra rhythm of spring.
When the sound of "Cuckoo-Cuckoo-" sounded outside the clouds, our hearts seemed to open up a land of smoke and rain, and all the blessings of spring were like a seed falling into the soft soil of spring.
Photo from/Visual China
Stinging and customs
The sting begins with a busy spring plowing
Since ancient times, the working people of our country have attached great importance to the stinging of the festival and regarded it as the beginning of spring ploughing. Tang Shi has clouds: "The light rain is new, and a thunder sting begins." The Tian family was idle for a few days, and farming began from then on. As the saying goes, "After the Festival of Sting, the ploughing of the fields does not stop." ”
Sacrifice the White Tiger to transform right and wrong
Chinese folklore says that the white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong, and every year it will come out to forage for food and hurt people on the day of sting, and if it is committed, it will encounter villains and all kinds of unhappiness, so there is a custom of stinging and sacrificing the white tiger. The so-called sacrificial white tiger refers to the white tiger drawn on paper, the paper tiger is generally yellow and black, and the corners of the mouth are painted with a pair of fangs.
Hit the villain to drive bad luck
During the sting season, all kinds of reptile ants should rise up with thunder and forage around. Therefore, on the day of the ancient sting, people would hold wormwood and smoke the four corners of the house to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of the unhappy people slapping the opponent and driving away bad luck, that is, the predecessor of "hitting the villain".
Sacrifice to the god of thunder
There is a cloud in the Zhou Li: "Whoever beats the drum will be the day of enlightenment." "People believe that on the day of the sting, there is thunder in the heavenly court, so there is thunder, so people also use this opportunity to worship the god of thunder and the skin of the drum to express their reverence for nature."
Stinging at the pear
In traditional Chinese culture, it is generally taboo to eat pears during festivals. However, stinging and eating pears means separating from pests and staying away from diseases. From the perspective of health, at this time, it is cold and warm, the temperature is changeable, the climate is relatively dry, it is easy to dry mouth and tongue, eating pears can also nourish the yin and clear the heat, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and enhance the physique.
Sting health
Spring is the season when viruses and bacteria are active, and special attention should be paid to preventing epidemic diseases such as influenza. Now that the epidemic is not over, we must wear masks to protect ourselves when we go out.
Mentally, because the weather changes frequently during this season, people's emotions are also prone to instability, and anxiety, sleep disorders, loss of appetite and other phenomena may occur, and it is necessary to prevent "spring depression".
In terms of living, you should go to bed early and get up early, take a walk slowly, do some gentle and gentle exercises, and maintain qi and blood and mental pleasure.
In terms of diet, we should pay attention to liver protection, eat more light foods rich in plant protein and vitamins, spinach is one of the best vegetables for liver protection in spring.
Text/CCTV News Reorganization
Photo/Visual China
Stinging
In all the festivals of spring, the sting seems to be a little special. Spring, rain, spring equinox, Qingming, valley rain, all warm and warm, only "sting", with a bit of stone breaking momentum, sonorous and powerful, rumbling to wake up everything in heaven and earth.
It is so high-profile, using "spring thunder and thunder" to announce that "the cold winter has gone", using "grass and trees to sprout" to dissolve "thousands of miles of frozen soil", using "stinging insects to wake up" to evoke "all living beings", using "weather warming" to nurture "spring color spraying thin", using "peach blossoms first blooming" to predict "ten miles of Fangfei"...
After a whole winter of dormancy, after the subtle preparation of spring and rain, it seems that it can no longer bear it, and must make a sound and declare to the world: Wake up, spring is coming!
"Shock" is a wake-up call, and it is not a shock, it is like a reminder and encouragement from heaven and earth: the grass and trees have moved and the insects have awakened, the farmers have also started farming, and the "you" who have been lazy for a long time should also jump out of the long dream of winter, adjust the mentality and mood, to meet the vivid and bright spring light, to cherish the spring day that cannot bear to live up.
If the solar terms are a footnote to the four seasons, then the "sting" label must be:
No one can stop it, and spring is coming as scheduled.
Text/CCTV News
Photo: Painting by Wu Guanzhong
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