What is the meaning of the fright in the twenty-four solar terms?

In the twenty-four solar terms, thunder refers to animals that wake up from hibernation by thunder.

Sting, the third of the 24 solar terms, is celebrated on March 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year. As the solar term with the fastest annual warming, the average temperature in most parts of northern China has risen above 0℃.

After the shock, the climate became warmer and everything began to recover. It is the flowering and budding period of deciduous fruit trees such as pear, peach and plum, and the pre-germination period of evergreen fruit trees such as citrus and bayberry, and it is also a very important period in the annual cycle management of orchards.

What is striking is the beginning, that is, "Mao" and "Mao". Everything comes out of the ground, representing vitality; Therefore, Uzuki is also an energy production month, and a year of spring ploughing has begun. The symbolic feature of the shocking solar terms is that spring thunder suddenly moves and everything is full of vitality. Judging from the natural phenology and climate process in various parts of China, "the beginning of thunder" only coincides with the natural rhythm in some parts of southern China.

Extended data:

"Twenty-four solar terms" is the basic content of the dry calendar (a year from the beginning of the year), and it is a special festival in the dry calendar to express seasons, phenology, climate change and establish "December" (monthly order). One year old is divided into twelve years old (built in December), and bucket handle rotates to twelve years old in turn (that is, twelve branches of "Mao Yinchen … Zi Chou").