Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - A phoenix tree embracing in autumn is that poem.

A phoenix tree embracing in autumn is that poem.

Origin: beginning of autumn, a solar term poem by modern poet Heshui Zuo.

Original text:

One leaf of the phoenix tree reports autumn, and the word rice field harvests.

Although it is not midsummer, it is even more chilling.

Vernacular translation:

When the plane leaves fall, beginning of autumn arrives. In autumn, farmers are talking happily about a bumper harvest and a happy life in rice fields.

It's early autumn, the weather is not cold yet, and it's just autumn. People can still hear cicadas in summer, and the hotter the weather, the louder the sound.

Extended data

The image of beginning of autumn's solar terms in beginning of autumn;

1, phoenix tree. Here, the poet caught the phoenix tree which is particularly sensitive to the seasons to show the appearance of beginning of autumn. Especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, almost only the phoenix tree will have rare leaves in autumn, which plays a role in reporting autumn.

2. rice. The poet grasped rice, one of the main food crops, and expressed that a bumper harvest was in sight: farmers patrolled the rice fields or ridges where heading and flowering were taking place, and happily talked about a bumper harvest and a happy life.

3, chilling. The phenological description (cicada singing) with the characteristics of solar terms in beginning of autumn is selected. Cicada is a kind of cicada. It's just autumn, and people can still hear cicadas in summer.

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