Say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year.
Another beginning of a reincarnation.
Standing as the beginning of spring is a new life.
When the cold water warms up.
The frost disappears and the mountains are slightly green.
When the grass and trees are prosperous, the world is also happy.
Sending away the cold midwinter, finally ushering in the breath of spring. When a reincarnation ends, Lichun opens a new chapter of solar terms. "Seventy-two Candidate Explanations" cloud: "Stand, build the beginning." The qi of the five elements continues here. And the gas of spring wood begins, so it is a business. "At this time" the east wind thawed. Frozen in winter, dissolved in the spring breeze; ”
Relatively speaking, the explanation of Lichun in "Qunfang Spectrum" is more concise: "Li, the beginning of the construction." Spring begins to build also. Therefore, since the Qin Dynasty, the ancients began with the beginning of spring. On the day of the beginning of spring, "the sun and the sting, the products are spring", opened a new time sequence of the year.
Since ancient times, the beginning of spring has meant the beginning of a new year in Vientiane and has been regarded as an extremely important day. Therefore, on this day, the Son of Heaven needs to wear green clothes, with green jade, hang the green flag on the frame, and lead the mighty hundred officials to welcome spring in the eastern suburbs, and hold a grand sacrifice to pray for a good harvest. In this regard, the "Book of Rites" contains: "The Son of Heaven lives on the left side of Qingyang. Take the Luan Road, drive the dragon, carry the green clothes, and wear the green clothes ......The three princes and the doctors of the princes of the three princes of the nine kings welcomed the spring in the eastern suburbs. ”
And the folk have the activity of whipping spring cattle. Of course, cattle were precious production tools in the agricultural era, and farmers were naturally reluctant to take the whip seriously. So the papier-mâché or clay cow shape was presented in the lobby, and the children and women were allowed to touch it around it, and sang while touching: "Touch the feet of the spring cow, make money." ”
Then the elder with the highest prestige holds a colored whip, while whipping the spring ox model, everyone sings together, "a dozen wind and rain, two dozen fertile soil, three dozen three yang Kaitai, four dozen four seasons of peace, five dozen five grain harvest, six dozen six contract spring." In order to welcome the spring and persuade the farmers, the prelude to spring ploughing was opened.
Zhu Kezhen said in "Phenology": "The language of flowers and birds is the language of nature", so the four seasons rotate, and the information of the change of solar terms is hidden in their traces. The ancients included five days as one solar term, and then made each solar term have three phases, which is the natural language that reflects the characteristics of climate change and phenology.
Wait for the east wind to thaw
The beginning of spring is the beginning of spring, when the east wind warms up, the ice melts, and the earth begins to thaw.
The second is the beginning of the stinging insects
Five days after the beginning of spring, dormant insects begin to feel the warmth of spring and wake up from their caves.
Three Waiting Fish Negative Ice
The ice melts, the spring water warms up, and ten days after the beginning of spring, the fish carry the ice floe on the surface of the water leisurely at the icebreak.
Waiting for spring
Spring is one of the "four friends in the snow", the earliest spring among the hundred flowers, the bright yellow flowers bloom in the east wind to the sun, bringing the best blessings and bright hope in spring. Han Qi, a poet of the Song Dynasty, praised it and said: "The cover is delicate and green, and the snow is cold and yellow." Spring is not self-sufficient, and thousands of flowers are fragrant. ”
Two cherries
Yuan Zhen once wrote a poem praising cherry blossoms: "Cherry blossoms, one branch or two branches of tens of millions of flowers, flower bricks have been set up to pick flowers, and the skirt is red like fire." "Cherry blossoms are delicate and small, and when they bloom, they are delicate and delicate, and although the flowering period is short, it is enough to soothe people's hearts, and it is no wonder that the Tang Dynasty writer Pi enjoyed the cherry blossoms alone on a moonlit night, regardless of the wet sleeves.
Three waiting for spring
Wangchun is also known as magnolia, alias Xinyi. Wang Wei's "Xinyiwu" is written about it. Magnolia "blooms in early spring, and flowers bloom in spring." "Peach Blossom Fan" stated: "Qingxi is full of Xinyi trees, not as good as Dongfeng peach and plum flowers." Bai Juyi praised: "The mountain spits out the clear blue water, and the Xinyi flowers are white and the willows are yellow." But I don't know what Jiangxi means, and the scenery has been a different emperor's hometown. "And I love Wang Wei's "Xinyiwu" alone.