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Characteristics of the solar terms of fright

Characteristics of the solar term: Generally, on March 5 or 6 of each year, the temperature rises rapidly and spring thunder gradually sprouts. According to the general climate law, the weather has started to get warmer and there is more and more rain, and most areas have entered spring ploughing.

In addition to the winter scenes in which the northeast and northwest regions are still covered with silver, the average temperature in most parts of the country has risen above 0℃, the daily average temperature in North China is 3-6℃, the temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is above 8℃, and the southwest and south China have reached 10- 15℃, which is already a harmonious spring.

Scare is divided into three stages: "When the peach blossoms first bloom; Second, wait for the sound of Cang Geng (Huang Li); Three waiting eagles turned into pigeons. " Description has entered the season of mid-spring, peach blossom red, pear blossom white, orioles blare and swallows go.

According to the general climate law, the weather in all parts of the country began to get warmer, with more rain, and most areas entered spring ploughing. When all kinds of insects dormant and hibernating in the soil are awakened, eggs in winter will also begin to ovulate. It can be seen that fright is a solar term reflecting natural phenology.

Since ancient times, the working people in China have attached great importance to this solar term, and regarded it as the beginning of spring ploughing. There is a cloud in the Tang poetry: "A light rain brings new flowers, and a thunder starts. Tian Jia was idle for a few days, and farming began. " At this time, the winter wheat in North China began to turn green, and the soil was still frozen and thawed alternately. Raking the ground in time is an important measure to reduce water evaporation.

The traditional custom of shocking and stinging

1, eat pears

There is a custom of eating pears in surprise. Stunning solar terms, warm and cold at first, dry climate, it is easy to make people feel thirsty and uncomfortable. Therefore, people have the custom of eating pears in shock.

2. Drum skin

Thunder is an important feature of solar terms. The ancients imagined Thor as a bird's beak, a winged god, holding a hammer in one hand and knocking on many drums around his body in the other, making a rumbling thunder. On this shocking day, Raytheon played drums in the sky, and the world also took this opportunity to cover the drums. Zhou Li's 40-volume "Swing Man" said: Whoever beats the drum starts to stab it.

Note: "Sting, even in Meng Chun, stinging insects begin to smell thunder and act;" Drum, like also beat; Take it. I don't know. "It can be seen that not only the ecology of various insects adapts to the operation of the four seasons, but also human beings, as the soul of all things, should adapt to the weather, so that all can achieve twice the result with half the effort.