Why is the solar term "Grain Rain" cultural?

Sacrifice to Cang Xie, Wen Zu: Since Han Dynasty, Grain Rain has had the custom of offering sacrifices to Cang Xie, Wen Zu. According to legend, Cang Xie created characters and made great contributions to the world. The Yellow Emperor was moved by it and took "Grain Rain" as his reward for creating characters. Since then, there has been a "Grain Rain Festival". Since then, every year on Grain Rain Festival, people will organize temple fairs to commemorate Cang Xie.

Grain Rain

Grain Rain means "Rain gives birth to hundreds of valleys", and it is Grain Rain when the sun reaches 30 on April 20th or 2 1 day every year. Grain Rain is the last solar term in spring. At this time, just after planting seedlings and planting new crops in the field, rain is most needed, so there is a saying that "spring rain is as expensive as oil".

In Grain Rain season, in the south of China, "a hundred flowers blossom", willows fall, cuckoos cry at night, peonies bloom and cherries are ripe. The natural scenery tells people that it is late spring. Low-altitude valley areas have also entered summer.

In ancient China, Grain Rain was divided into three stages: "The first stage was when Ping was born; The second time, the cuckoo blows feathers; The third class is Dai Ren's surrender. " After Grain Rain, rainfall increased, duckweed began to grow, then cuckoo began to remind people to sow, and then Dai Sheng birds began to be seen on mulberry trees.

"Grain Rain's Sacrifice to Cang Xie" is a folk tradition that has spread for thousands of years since the Han Dynasty. Until now, some places in Shaanxi still retain this custom.

About 4000 years ago, Emperor Xuanyuan was acclaimed as the leader of the tribal alliance by tribal leaders, and he named Cang Xie Zuo Shi. After Cang Xie became a historian, he used different kinds of shells and knots as markers to record events. However, as Cang Xie is responsible for more and more affairs, the old methods are far from meeting the demand, and Cang Xie is very worried.

Every year, Grain Rain Festival, Cang Xie Temple will hold a traditional temple fair, which lasts for seven to ten days. Year after year, thousands of people come here from all directions to hold a grand and warm ceremony of entering the temple and a grand and solemn memorial ceremony to commemorate and sacrifice Cang Xie, the father of Chinese characters. People dance yangko, run bamboo horses, play social fire, perform martial arts, beat gongs and drums, perform big dramas, sing and dance, and express their reverence and nostalgia for Cang Sheng. Troupe and business also came to join in the fun, very lively.

In the dazzling historical picture of the Chinese nation, Cang Xie is a figure between myth and legend. He is an ancient sage from the perspectives of mythology, ethnology and folklore. He is known as "Long Yan's Four Eyes" and "Sound follows Ruide" (Lun Heng, Shi Lv Chun Qiu), and his outstanding achievement lies in "making a statement at the beginning to end the world". The creation of this "secret weapon" of human beings makes it "raining in the sky, crying at night, hiding in hiding" ("Huainanzi"), which can be called a heroic pioneering work that makes the gods cry.

Cang Xie, whose real name is Hou Gang, is also known as Cang Xie's teacher and Huangshi. According to the records in the Jade River Map and Zen Tong Ji, Cang Xie once stood on his own as emperor and was a tribal leader in ancient times. During the reign, he received Luo Shu in Luoshui.

According to historical records, after the rise of the Yellow Emperor in Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor historians in Cang Xie and Juyong countries, inspired by the footprints of birds and animals, concentrated the wisdom of the working people and worked hard for decades to collect, sort out, popularize and use hieroglyphics circulated among ancestors. Although the size and shape of knots are different, it is difficult to identify them according to their age. After Cang Xie looked up at the arc direction of Kuixing and looked down at the texture of turtle back, claw marks of birds and animals, shapes and palm prints of mountains and rivers, from which he got inspiration and created hieroglyphics according to the shapes of things.

The image created by Cang Xie is called writing. There are six kinds of general concepts in Cang Xie's works, one is words referring to things, such as "up and down", and the other is image words, such as "day and month". The third refers to pictophonetic characters, such as "Jiang and He", and the fourth refers to knowing characters, such as "Wu and Xin". The fifth refers to word transfer, such as "Lao, Kao". Six-finger loanwords, such as "Ling, Chang". When referring to things, from top to bottom. Of hieroglyphics, full moon lost, imitating its shape. Pictophonetic characters are shaped by class and matched by sound. If you know what you say, you don't fight for the military power, and people's words are also credible. The translated words have also passed the old test. Under the guise of Chinese characters, several words are the same. Although they have different pronunciations, their meanings are the same. So from the Yellow Emperor to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, it has been in use and has not changed.

On the day of Cang Xie's ci-writing, the whole country rejoiced and moved to heaven. When the millet rained, it scared the brotherhood of the wolf, which was recorded in Huainanzi.