What does the proverb "No sowing, no sowing" mean?

The arrival of "Mangzhong" marks the official start of the midsummer season. "Mangzhong" is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms and the third solar term in summer. Among them, the explanation of "Mang" in Modern Chinese Dictionary is: "Needles grow on the shells of some Gramineae plants". As the name of solar terms, "Mang" has a wide range of meanings, covering rice and wheat. This complete meaning means: the wheat with awn is harvested quickly, and the rice with awn is planted quickly. At this time, China is busy farming from south to north, the Yangtze River basin is busy transplanting rice at both ends and cutting wheat, and the Yellow River basin is busy planting beans and cutting wheat. It can be said that this is the busiest season for middle peasants in a year, and there is a scene of "every family has beautiful rice and there is a long Song Ling everywhere".

There is a folk saying that "it is useless to plant awns if you don't plant them." The canopy is a busy season for agriculture. If you miss it, you can't transplant rice easily, and the harvest will affect the yield. The solar term of awn species is of great significance in agriculture. In agricultural production, we must hurry to plant crops in Da Chun and transplant rice seedlings in time. If it is postponed again, the vegetative growth period of rice will be shortened due to the significant increase of the solar term temperature of "Miscanthus", and the growth period will be easily affected by drought and diseases and insect pests, and the yield will inevitably be low at autumn harvest.