Notes on twenty-four flower letters

Which is 24 times that of Hua Xinfeng. China's "Water Tune Song Banquet Gu Zhongying Golden Sunflower Pavilion" says: "Remember Qiantang, carry wine in the morning, and hide hooks at night. Blue heartbreak, old romance reduced. Three hundred and sixty bridges in spring and twenty-four flowers will be in Suzhou again. There is a saying in Wu Song Wenying's farewell poem "The Water Dragon Hidden in the Mountain Clouds": "The West Garden has been lost, Lin Ting moved wine, and Songquan recommended tea. Hand in hand, jade slave calls, green window spring is near. It has taken 24 times to set foot on the West Lake proudly. "

Flower letter, that is, the flowering period marked by flowers, is also called "Hua Xinfeng", that is, the news that flowers are reported by the wind. The seasonal expression of "Twenty-four Hua Xinfeng" is produced in China when the wind meets the flowering period, which is also the expression of climate change in China. Neijing: "Five days is waiting, and three days is qi." According to the solar terms of the lunar calendar, from slight cold to Grain Rain every year, * * * eight qi. Each breath lasts 15 days and is divided into three periods, each of which lasts for five days. Eight Qi * * * is twenty-four phases, and each phase should be a flower letter. The twenty-four seasons have become the representatives of the twenty-four flowering periods. Their order is: slight cold: plum blossom, camellia, narcissus; Great cold: once fragrant, twice orchid, and three times alum; Beginning of spring: Spring Festival, cherry blossoms, spring; Rain: first-class cauliflower, second-class apricot flower, third-class plum flower; Surprise: waiting for peach blossoms, waiting for Tang Di, waiting for roses; Vernal equinox: first-class begonia, second-class pear, third-class magnolia; Qingming: waiting for tung flowers, wheat flowers and willow flowers; Grain Rain: The first peony, the second tea and the third neem flower. Twenty-four letters later, the "green, fat, red and thin" summer with "long summer" as the starting point has quietly arrived. In addition, people also compiled a ballad "Twelve Sisters Flowers": plum blossoms are cold in the first month, and apricot blossoms are full of branches in February. Peach blossoms reflect green water in March, and roses cover the fence in April. Pomegranate flowers are as red as fire in May, and lotus flowers are sprinkled on the pool platform in June. Impatiens bloom wonderfully in July, and osmanthus flowers bloom everywhere in August. Chrysanthemums bloom in September, and hibiscus brings spring in October. Narcissus blooms in November, and wintersweet brings spring in December. The natural beauty displayed by flowers is very attractive. The love of flowers is nothing more than poets and writers. They meditated and chanted flowers, so they came up with the saying of spend december God: Orchid Qu Yuan in January, Plum Blossom Forest in February, Peach Blossom Pi Rixiu in March, Peony Ouyang Xiu in April, Peony Su Dongpo in May, Pomegranate Jiang Yan in June, Lotus Zhou Lian Creek in July, Wei Ziyang Wan Li in August, Osmanthus fragrans in September, Fan Chengda in Rong Ying in October, Chrysanthemum Tao Qian in November and Narcissus as high as the sun in December.