What is a letter flower?

Huaxin arrived in Grain Rain according to the slight cold, which lasted 120 days and had eight solar terms. In ancient China, every five days was regarded as a waiting period, counting 24 days. People choose a plant with the most accurate flowering period as a representative, which is called "Twenty-four Flowers Letter". In addition, there is a song called playboy.

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[bloom News]: bloom Information

Who can beat drums to urge flowers, and thunder will beat Liangzhou. -Fan Chengda's "Yin after Yuan Dynasty"

It's too early to believe in flowers

[(of a woman) 24 years old]: refers to a woman's adulthood-24 years old.

24 Xin

According to the eight solar terms from slight cold to Grain Rain, one hundred and twenty days, in ancient China, every five days was regarded as a waiting period, counting 24 days. Among the plants waiting for flowering, people chose a plant with the most accurate flowering period as the representative, which should be called "Twenty-four Flowers Letter". The whole spring can be described as a "world of flowers and flowers".

Twenty-four flowers' letter is:

Slight cold: plum blossom, camellia, narcissus; ;

Great cold: Daphne odora, orchid and alum in Phnom Penh;

Beginning of spring: Spring Festival, cherry blossoms, spring;

Rain: first-class cauliflower, second-class apricot flower, third-class plum flower;

Surprise: waiting for peach blossoms, waiting for Tang Di, waiting for roses;

Vernal equinox: once begonia, twice pear and three magnolia;

Qingming: first-class tung flower, second-class wheat flower, third-class willow flower;

Grain Rain: The first peony, the second peony and the third peony.

Hua Xinfeng

The so-called Hua Xinfeng refers to the flowers that bloom in a certain solar term. Because it is the wind from flowering period, it is called trade wind. People choose a flower with the most accurate flowering period as the representative. This solar term is called Hua Xinfeng, which means the weather that brings flowering news.

According to The Old Story of Jingchu in Zonggu of Southern Dynasties, plum blossoms begin and Melia azedarach ends, and they return to Hua Xinfeng every twenty-four times. That is to say, from the slight cold to the * * * Eight Qi (eight integrity periods) in Grain Rain, one hundred and twenty days, every five days is a waiting period, counting 24 days, and each waiting period should be a flower letter. In Hua Xinfeng, there are two solar terms every month, and each solar term has three periods, each lasting five days. Every five days, there is a flower letter, that is, every five days, there is a flower in full bloom, that is, Hua Xinfeng waits for two days in January. Whenever Hua Xinfeng is waiting for bloom, flowers are in full bloom, colorful fragrance is everywhere and spring is everywhere around Grain Rain. Azadirachta came last, indicating that Azadirachta was over. After 24 romantic journeys, the long summer begins.

As the saying goes, "flowers and trees control the four seasons, and birds sing to report the farming season." Flowers, trees, birds and animals in nature all move according to certain seasons, and their activities are closely related to climate change. Therefore, their activities have become the symbols of seasons, such as the bud, leaf development, flowering, fruiting, yellow leaves and deciduous leaves of plants, dormancy, resuscitation, first sound, reproduction and migration of animals, etc. These are all related to climate change. People call these rhythmic natural phenomena phenology.

In the Book of Songs, "Shura in April, Lost in May", "Fire in July", "Peeling jujube trees in August and harvesting rice in October" are all phenological manifestations.

Phenology is closely related to agricultural time. China is the first country to study phenology in the world. The earliest monograph on phenology and summer in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty recorded phenology, meteorology, astronomical phenomena and important political and agricultural activities, such as farming, sericulture and horse breeding, in the order of twelve months a year. Since then, there have been similar phenological records in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals and The Book of Rites, which gradually developed into 24 solar terms and 72 climaxes a year.

There are also 24 records about Hua Xinfeng in Guangfang Qunpu written by Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. Cheng Quanchang's "Lu Fan Lu" said, "bloom in March, the wind is different." Lu You's "You Qian Shan" also describes the flower trade wind, in which "the sound of a sudden earthquake started and the wind heard about bloom".

Twenty-four o'clock in Hua Xinfeng not only reflects the natural phenomena of flowering and seasons, but more importantly, it can be used to master the farming season and arrange farming. There are many folk proverbs reflecting phenology, such as: "Peach blossoms bloom, swallows come, prepare grain for farming", "cuckoo, sow grain and cut wheat" and so on.