Customs, ancient poems and riddles related to solar terms

: Du Fu's Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night

Good rain knows the season, when spring comes.

Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently.

Awakening of Insects

: Tang Wei Wu Ying's "Guantianjia"

A light rain brought new flowers, and a thunder began to wake up.

Tian Jia was idle for a few days, and farming began.

Spring Equinox

: The Vernal Equinox by Xu Xuan in Southern Tang and Northern Song Dynasties

On the fourth day of mid-spring, spring scenery is in the middle.

Green fields go around the moon, and clear clouds are intermittent.

Qingming:

Dondum

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.

Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.

Many species:

Lu You's Time Rain in the Southern Song Dynasty

When it rains, plant awns, and plant them in the fields.

Every family is beautiful in wheat and rice, and songs are long everywhere.

custom

Beginning of spring, commonly known as "Da Chun". The ancient custom in beginning of spring is not only an ancient solar term, but also an important festival. At the beginning of spring, the son of heaven will personally lead the prince and the doctor to welcome the spring in the eastern suburbs and issue a kind order. At the beginning of spring, an old man was selected from the village to symbolically whip the cattle in spring three times, which means the beginning of a year's agriculture. Folk artists make many small mud cows, which are called "spring cows". Give it to all families, this is called "send it to spring". The owner should pay the person who sends the spring water. More essentially, it is a holiday sales activity, but everyone is happy. In some places, there is a yellow paper with a picture of a spring cow on the wall. Yellow stands for land, and spring cattle stands for farming, commonly known as "Spring Cattle Map". During the Spring Festival, people are used to eating carrots, ginger, onions and bread, which is called "biting spring".

Symbolizing the awakening in early February, all hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants will be awakened with a flat thunder, and reptiles and ants at home will also get up and look for food everywhere. Therefore, in ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of slapping unhappy people and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains" ...

Riddle 1. Mystery: A little proud (to make a solar term) Mystery: Xiaoman 2. The answer: The knot of righteousness in Taoyuan has been broken (a solar term name) The answer: beginning of spring's analysis: In The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became sworn in Taoyuan and interpreted "three people" with bosom friends; The word "sound" can be divided into "reason" and "heaven".