Meteorological proverbs in Chaoshan area

Agriculture in Chaoshan area is developed, but there are a lot of people and little land, which is famous for intensive cultivation and high yield. For a long time, the means of agricultural production has been manual farming, so it is of great significance to predict the weather and master the solar terms, and it is also closely related to business trips, fishing and navigation, and handicrafts. Therefore, many dialects, proverbs and folk songs are related to meteorology, festivals and phenology to guide farming. (The underlined words in the proverbs and ballads collected below are dialects, and the words in brackets are common words. )

Plant in the first month of the first month, plant beans (peanuts) in February, raise seedlings in March and open eggplant in April. Peach ripens in May, kudzuvine (sweet potato) is dug in June, longan is picked in July, hemp skin is peeled in August, fish and vegetables are cooked in September, new rice is cooked in 10/month, orange peel is red, and plum blossoms bloom in1February. -"December Song of Farming"

There are no clouds in the sky, no boats in the ground, the poor starve to death, and the rich suffer from plague. (Note: This ballad refers to the image of drought)

It rains early and sunny (late), and it rains late.

On the first day of June, there was thunder, and there was a nine-level typhoon in the town. There was no thunder at the beginning of June, and disaster struck that year (referring to a typhoon).

In the first month, the north wind was peaceful, dry in March and April, disastrous in May and June, and poisonous snakes in July and August.

Chop firewood at sunset in summer and wash your feet at sunset in winter.

There is no good day for the sun to rise early.

In summer, the solstice thunders and the rice is cut and withered.

Clouds start at night (dusk), and rain comes at midnight.

The stars shine on the wetland, and the rain keeps falling.

It doesn't rain on the eighth day of April, and there are more fruits than stones.

The east wind blew all night and flooded the hut.

Cattle freeze to death in January, horses freeze to death in February, and old people freeze to death in March.

Frost and rain have poison, and one acre is divided into three places and one stone.