Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Meaning diagram of awn solar terms

Meaning diagram of awn solar terms

The literal meaning of awning is that wheat with awning can be harvested quickly, and rice with awning can be planted.

The awning solar term is literally called busy planting, but it means that "wheat with awning can be harvested quickly and rice with awning can be planted", which is a typical solar term reflecting agricultural phenology, the ninth solar term among the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in summer. Between Xiaoman and the summer solstice, it is a turning point of solar terms.

The summer solstice is longer and the winter solstice is shorter. During the awning period, the sun will approach the northernmost part of its trajectory in the northern hemisphere day by day, and the longest day in the northern hemisphere is coming. Mango is also a very busy solar term, and different regions should carry out different agricultural activities in this solar term. Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia are "busy planting seeds and breeding them in the summer to the valley of the sun".

Solar term time of awn seed

The awn seed is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the awn seed at 75 o'clock from the sun to rhubarb on June 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. It is a typical solar term reflecting agricultural phenology, the ninth solar term among the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in summer. "There is a kind of awn in Mayday, and grains can be planted." It means that the seeds of crops such as barley and wheat are ripe, and it is very urgent to grab the harvest.

At this time, the temperature will increase obviously, the rainfall will be abundant, and the crops will enter the vigorous growth period, which is the third solar term in summer and a typical solar term reflecting agricultural phenology. In China, there are some folk customs about mango seeds, such as sending flowers to the gods, beating mud, cooking plums, etc., which show people's yearning and pursuit for a better life.