Detailed explanation of awn solar terms

The awn seed is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, when the sun reaches 75 degrees of the yellow meridian.

The word "awn" of awn seed refers to the harvest of awned plants such as wheat, and the word "species" of awn seed refers to the season of sowing millet crops. The homonym of "awn seed" means that all crops are "busy sowing". Therefore, "awn seed" is also called "busy planting" and "busy planting", which is the spread and sowing of farmers' friends. The arrival of "Mangzi" indicates that farmers have started their busy field life. Heshui Zuo's poem "Mangzhong" called its weather and busy farming as "the hot sun is burning and the plum rains are continuous." . The crops around Nanling are strong and the wheat harvest on both sides of the river is busy. "Ear seed

On the ear, May Day. It is said that there is a kind of awn in the valley that can silence the crops.

The mantis was born. Mantis, grass insects, drinking wind and eating dew, feeling a yin qi, can catch cicadas and eat, so it is also called insecticidal; Yue Tianma said that it flies like a horse; Axe worms used to have two legs like axes, but now they still have different names, each according to their position. In late autumn, children are born in the forest, and there are hundreds of children in a shell. At this time, they break out of their shells and their egg sheaths are also in the medicine.

When the sound starts. Cloud, a hundred labors, "Materia Medica" as shrike; Zhu's Meng Note: Shrike, a bird with a bad voice, also includes owls. Cao Zijian's On Bad Birds: May is loud, hence its name, which seems to be commonly known as turbid temperature. So Yaya noticed that shrike couldn't fly, so just fly. Shi Mao said: In July, birds sing. Covers weeks, July, summer and May.

The tongue is silent. Books believe that Kuzu was named after his ability to repeat his tongue, especially for frogs with inward tips. Today, those who know right from wrong, because they are singing at this time, don't know what they have lost. "Yi Tong Guayan" is also called frog silence. If they sing in May, they don't know that the shape is hidden after seeing it on the tenth day. Chen said: Mantis and anchovies are both yin. Slight yin leads to life or singing, slight yin leads to life, and slight yin leads to silence.