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Rainwater solar terms

What does the rain solar term mean? The arrival of the rain solar term means that heavy snow is falling and the cold weather is gradually disappearing, while the days of spring breeze, melting ice and snow, moist air, mild sunshine and drizzle are coming to us. Du Fu has a poem: Good rain knows the season, when spring comes. Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently. At this time, the spring rain, accompanied by gentle wind, moistens the germination and growth of all things quietly, silently and carefully when night falls. Rain is what crops and people expect. In this solar term, people often say that bloom is warm in spring and the rain is busy delivering fertilizer. The arrival of rain brought busyness and joy to farmers. People call this solar term rain, which fully shows the timeliness of rain and people's love for it.

A year's plan lies in spring, how to see the spring rain. For ordinary people, rain is the key period for Koharu to manage and Da Chun to prepare for farming, and life is full of new hopes.

The bucket refers to rain, the east wind thaws, and the ice and snow disperse into water and turn into rain, hence the name rain. Among them, bucket handle, who refers to the Big Dipper, points to the nonyl in the sky, which is considered inaccurate by later generations. At this time, the sun reached 330 degrees. Rain not only means that it will start raining, but also means that it will increase from now on. February 18 of the solar calendar is a rainy solar term every year.

Rain is the second of the 24 solar terms. Before and after the rain, the direct point of the sun gradually approached the equator from the southern hemisphere. At this time, the sunshine hours and intensity in the northern hemisphere increased, and the temperature rose rapidly. Warm and humid air from the ocean becomes active and gradually pushes northward. At the same time, cold air is not to be outdone in the weakening trend, and it frequently competes with warm air, unwilling to quit its hegemony and refuse to take away the residual cold. Rain, like Grain Rain, light snow and heavy snow, is a solar term reflecting precipitation. In the rainy solar term, the temperature rises, the snow melts and the precipitation increases.

In the twenty-four solar terms, it is recorded that in the first month, water comes from the sky. Spring belongs to wood, but there must be water for those who grow wood, so there is rain in beginning of spring. If the east wind melts, it will disperse into rain.

This means that there will be a rainy solar term after spring begins. The weather is getting warmer, everything is beginning to sprout, and it's going to rain. In ancient China, rainwater was divided into three periods: one was to wait for Rex to sacrifice fish, the other was to wait for Hongyan to come, and the third was to wait for vegetation to sprout. In the rainy solar term, otters began to fish and put the fish on the shore, as if they were sacrificed first and then eaten: five days later, geese began to fly back to the north from the south; In five days, in the quiet spring rain, the spirit of the sun rises everywhere and buds begin to appear. Since then, the earth has gradually begun to show a thriving scene. There are relevant records in Yizhoushu; Rex sacrificed a fish, an otter and a water dog. Fish thieves also take fish as sacrifices and take fish to worship heaven. The so-called jackal otter knew that it would start at the beginning of this year, and otters used it as a sacrifice for the first fish in the upper reaches. Xu Shizhen; ? If Rex offered a round sacrifice, the water elephant would be: the jackal offered a sacrifice, and the golden elephant would be. ? Houyan and Beiyan are birds that know the time. Go back to Saibei when it's hot, and live in Jiangnan desert when it's cold. Meng Chun's sun be the spirit, Hou Yan from Peng 0 to the north, vegetation sprouting, heaven and earth gasification for Thailand, so the vegetation sprouting began.