What does the rural proverb "Before the Dragon Boat Festival, there were barren fields everywhere" mean? Does this make sense?

Every short rural proverb has a profound meaning. These proverbs are the crystallization of the wisdom of the older generation in rural areas, and every sentence is a summary of their life experience. There are many proverbs about farmland in the countryside. For example, a well-known proverb, "Wheat builds three floors in winter, and steamed bread sleeps next year", is also a summary of our farmer friends' life experience.

Just like the proverb mentioned in the question, "Before the Dragon Boat Festival, there were barren land everywhere", let me talk about whether this proverb is really true now.

"Before Dragon Boat Festival"

Friends in the countryside all know "Mango Seed" and Dragon Boat Festival. Literally, it is mango seeds in the twenty-four solar terms before the Dragon Boat Festival, which means that everyone should be busy in the fields and plant all kinds of crops at this time.

In our hometown, a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, someone was harvesting wheat, and then when the wheat was harvested, corn and watermelon were planted, so the farmland at this time showed a busy scene.

"There are barren places everywhere."

Just now we talked about "before the Dragon Boat Festival", so the following sentence "barren land is everywhere" means that the pace of cultivated land in rural areas was relatively slow in the past, unlike the pace of sowing in rural areas at this time, which means that the crops planted are relatively rich.

In the past, the living standards of rural friends were generally not high, and the crops planted were relatively simple. At that time, the older generation generally believed that "there were barren land everywhere before the Dragon Boat Festival".

To sum up:

Then this proverb is obviously not combined with the present rural areas, and another is the improvement of our present rural living conditions and planting patterns, so we must look at the proverb objectively, take its essence and discard its dross.

Then this proverb is obviously not combined with the present rural areas, and another is the improvement of our present rural living conditions and planting patterns, so we must look at the proverb objectively, take its essence and discard its dross.