Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Moral and symbolic naming of mango.

Moral and symbolic naming of mango.

Moral: It means that the midsummer season officially begins and the summer harvest crops are about to mature.

Mango is one of the 24 solar terms, and summer is the third solar term. Represents the official beginning of midsummer; When the sun reaches 75 degrees of the yellow meridian, it passes the mans solar term. The literal meaning of awn seed is "the wheat with awn is harvested quickly, and the rice with awn can be planted". "The Moon Order is seventy-two waiting for Ji Jie": "The May Festival means that there are awns in the valley." At this time, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China will enter the rainy Huangmei season.

Characteristics of phenology: there are three stages of mango seed. When mango is planted, it will be "mantis born". The ancients believed that mantis was born in the season of awning, so it broke out of cocoon. Mantis is an expert in imitation in nature. It looks like a flower, shaped like bamboo, green like summer grass and withered like autumn leaves. Mango seeds wait for the "first sound". "The old swallow flies apart", the swallow refers to the swallow, and the old refers to Shrike.

When the ear is planted, it will be silent. In the eyes of the ancients, shrike and mockingbird are two typical birds that are good at singing. Shrike cries because the yin is slightly long, and mockingbirds are silent because the yin is slightly long.