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Is today a good day to be afraid?

Stingo is a good day.

Jingzhe, also known as "Qi Zhe", is the third of the 24 solar terms. The sun reaches 345 degrees of the Yellow Meridian, and the festival will be held on March 5-6 of the Gregorian calendar.

Sting reflects the phenomenon that natural creatures germinate and grow under the influence of rhythm changes. Spring thunder first sounded, the temperature rose, insects sprouted and the Ninth Five-Year Plan was exhausted. "Nine peach blossoms bloom, and spring ploughing cannot rest." Phenology: Peach red and Li Bai, welcome, cuckoo and urge to plow. In winter, many animals lack food because of hidden vitality and the depression of everything. In order to survive this difficult time, they will lurk in the soil without eating or drinking. This phenomenon was called "stabbing pain" by the ancients.

Seasonal characteristics

In the season of fright, spring is budding, and nature has a new vitality. The so-called "spring thunder" means that when the spring thunder begins to sound, it wakes up the stinging insects that are dormant in the ground for the winter. The symbolic feature of the shocking solar terms is that spring thunder suddenly moves and everything is full of vitality. From the natural phenology and climate process in various parts of China, it is found that "thunder begins with your surprise" is only consistent with the natural rhythm in some parts of southern China.

"Spring thunder scares thousands of insects", but the warm climate conditions are conducive to the occurrence and spread of many diseases and insect pests, and weeds in the fields sprout one after another. It is necessary to do a good job in pest control and intertillage weeding in time. "Peach blossoms come, swine fever comes", and we should also pay attention to the epidemic prevention of poultry and livestock. At this time, the temperature rose rapidly, and spring thunder gradually appeared in most areas of the Yangtze River Basin. In most parts of southern China, the first sound of spring thunder can be heard in the rain and thorns all the year round, while in the northwest of North China, except for a few years, it usually doesn't thunder until Qingming.