Festival songs and solar terms

"Twenty-four solar term song" is a small poem compiled for the convenience of remembering the twenty-four solar terms in the ancient calendar of China, and it has been circulated in many versions.

Twenty-four solar terms are the wisdom of ancient people in China. Astronomy, farming, phenology and folklore, spring ploughing, Xia Yun, autumn harvest and winter storage are combined scientifically and skillfully, and a large number of seasonal cultures related to them are derived. Agricultural irrigation in ancient China depended on precipitation in the sky and rivers on the ground, and farming was mainly concentrated in areas with abundant precipitation and developed river networks.

Farmers in these areas are still engaged in agricultural production according to solar terms, temperature and precipitation. In the long farming society, the 24 solar terms play an important role and have rich cultural connotations. Twenty-four solar terms are not only a time system, but also a life folk custom system with rich connotations. A large number of poems and songs have also been produced around the 24 solar terms.

Common versions of the 24 solar terms songs are as follows:

1, version 1

In early spring, the rain gradually began to fall, and insects stopped sleeping.

The vernal equinox is near Tomb-Sweeping Day, before tea picking in Grain Rain.

Long summer's little satisfaction, scythe.

The solstice of summer is only a slight summer heat, and the slight summer heat is three days.

Beginning of autumn is in summer, and the Millennium flies south.

Autumn equinox cold dew, the first frost dyed red leaves.

In early winter, there is light snow, and heavy snow indicates a good year.

On the ninth day of the winter solstice, there is a slight cold and a severe cold.

2. Version 2

The plum blossoms in early spring are particularly bright, and the rain is red and apricot is fresh.

Lulin thunder, butterfly dance between flowers at the vernal equinox.

The Qingming kite was broken, accompanied by Grain Rain's tender tea and emerald.

Mulberry fruits are like cherries in the long summer, and silkworms are cultivated in the small man.

Before the awn seeds were put forward and sent to court, the rice flowers on the summer solstice were like white practices.

Summer breeze urges early-maturing beans, and Chi Pan enjoys red lotus in hot summer.

Qiu Chan makes people sleep, and sunflower smiles in summer.

The white dew returns to the geese, and the autumn equinox smells like osmanthus.

Cold dew vegetable seedlings are green, and the first frost reed flowers are floating all over the sky.

Beginning of winter reported good news, reported three rewards, and light snow and goose feathers flew in pieces.

The snow is very cold, the plum blossoms are crazy in the wind, and the winter solstice is full of snow.

Little cold wanderers are homesick, and they celebrate reunion at the end of the cold year.