What is the recitation of songs and nursery rhymes in the 24 solar terms?

Plum blossoms in beginning of spring are exceptionally bright, apricot blossoms are fresh in the rain, lulin thunders, Hua Hudie dances at the vernal equinox, kites are broken in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and tea is tender in Grain Rain.

Mulberry fruits are like cherries in the long summer, silkworms are cultivated in the small man, jade seedlings grow in front of the courtyard, rice and flowers are like white practice in the summer solstice, Xia Feng urges early beans to ripen, and Chi Pan enjoys red lotus in the summer.

Qiu Chan makes people sleep, sunflower smiles in summer, and the Millennium returns to the wild goose. In the autumnal equinox, osmanthus flowers are fragrant all over the garden, cold dew vegetables are green, and the first frost reeds are floating all over the sky.

Beginning of winter reported good news and offered three blessings, with light snow and goose feathers flying all over the sky, heavy snow and cold plums rushing against the wind, till the day is full of snow, the slight cold is homesick, and the great cold is reunited at the end of the year.

The origin of the twenty-four solar terms

Historically, the main centers of political, economic, cultural and agricultural activities in China were mostly concentrated in the Central Plains of the Yellow River Basin, and the 24 solar terms were established on the basis of climate and phenology in this area. As early as the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the working people in China had the idea that "the sun will arrive in the south" and "the sun will arrive in the north". Subsequently, people divided the year into 24 equal parts according to the natural phenomena such as the running position of the sun and the moon at the beginning and middle of the month, the weather and the growth of animals and plants. And give each equal part a proper noun, that is, twenty-four solar terms.

By the end of the Warring States period, there were eight solar terms, such as beginning of spring, Spring Equinox, Long Summer, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Spring Equinox, beginning of winter and Winter Solstice, which were the most important of the 24 solar terms. Mark the seasonal changes and clearly divide the four seasons of the year. By the Qin and Han Dynasties, the 24 solar terms had been completely established.