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When is fear?

March 6, 2023, 4: 36: 2.

Sting is the third of the 24 solar terms. Battle nail, the sun reaches 345 degrees of the Yellow Meridian, and the festival is on March 5-6 of the Gregorian calendar. Spine reflects the state of germination and growth of natural organisms affected by rhythm changes. Speaking of earthquakes, the sun's spirit rises, the temperature warms up, the spring thunder suddenly moves, the rain increases, and everything is full of vitality. Farming production is closely related to the rhythm of nature, and the solar term of fright is of great significance in farming, which is the reflection of ancient farming culture on natural festivals.

Sting refers to hiding, and insects hide in the soil in winter; Surprise means waking up, and spring thunder in the sky wakes up and stings. The so-called "spring thunder" means that when the spring thunder begins to sound, it wakes up the stinging insects that are dormant in the ground for the winter. In some ancient places, people smoked the four corners of their houses with incense and wormwood to drive away "snakes, insects, mosquitoes and rats" and musty smell. Over time, it gradually evolved into the custom of shocking and beating villains to drive away bad luck.

The historical roots of fear.

Amazing, as the beginning of Uzuki; "Mao", Mao also, everything comes from the ground and represents vitality. Mao, the mid-spring moon, the hexagrams are in the earthquake position, and everything is shocked, which is the image of hair growth. Built in one year and twelve months, it corresponds to divination once a month. Uzuki (including the two solar terms, the fright and the vernal equinox) corresponds to a powerful prophecy. The divination of Dazhuang hexagrams is that the sky begins to thunder, and the thunder rings in the sky, which is very vivid. Sting marks the beginning of mid-spring season.

Spring thunder first moved, the sound stung, and everything revived and sprouted. Spine reflects the germination and growth of natural organisms affected by rhythm changes. Dade in the Western Han Dynasty, Xia said: The first month of the month began to stab, and the words made him stab. Everything is shocked, and it is thunder, so it is called shocking. It's a stinger that runs away in fright.

Wu Cheng's "Twenty-four Solar Terms" in Yuan Dynasty: "On February Festival, everything thunders, so it is called a sting, and it is a sting." "Twenty-four solar terms" said: "February Festival, everything vibrates, and when it vibrates, it thunders, so it is called thunder. It's an escaped cockroach. "The symbolic feature of the shocking solar terms is that the spring thunder suddenly moves and everything is full of vitality.

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