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What's the three-waiting map of Grain Rain?

Grain Rain Popular Science Grain Rain is the sixth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the last solar term in spring.

The ancients divided Grain Rain into three stages.

The duckweed begins to grow for the first time: It means that after Grain Rain, the rainfall increases and duckweed begins to grow. In the face of the epidemic, we are as small as duckweed and look fragile and uncertain. Although duckweed is small, together, it can also hold up an umbrella for those "people in white" who fight day and night for us.

The second time, the cuckoo blows the feather: the pigeon is a cuckoo. Cuckoo flies around the field to remind people to start sowing. Cuckoo has been singing for a spring, which will bring new hope. Five days after the singing pigeon brushed its feathers, the singing pigeon brushed its feathers. Pigeon is a cuckoo. The pigeon's song indicates that spring is coming to an end. At this time, the field is full of its call to "plant grain at home".

Third, Dai Sheng fell to Sang:? Five days later, "Dai Sheng dropped mulberry". "Dai Sheng", also known as cockscomb bird, falls on mulberry trees at this time, and silkworms will be born. "Mulberry falling in Dai Sheng" means that Dai Sheng birds can be seen flying over the branches of mulberry trees. After the cuckoo's voice, people will see Dai Sheng birds staying on the mulberry trees one after another. Dai Sheng birds are not very pleasant to the ear, but they are beautiful, small and exquisite, with bright feathers, which can attract people's attention.

Grain Rain customs: enjoy peony, drink Grain Rain tea, offer sacrifices to Cang Xie, eat Toona sinensis, offer sacrifices to the sea, visit Grain Rain and post Grain Rain stickers. ?

Activities in Grain Rain: planting beans, raising silkworms, tasting tea, enjoying peony, measuring rain and tasting Toona sinensis.