Proverbs of the 24 Solar Terms

On the twenty-four solar terms, our country has also passed down many agricultural proverbs since ancient times, which are summarized after generations of farming the wisdom of farming arrangements, such as:

Autumn equinox early, frost late, cold dew planting wheat at the right time;

The robin barks, cuts the early rice, the robin flies, piles up the haystacks;

Shan Huangshi Touhehehei, set yak planting the early wheat;

After and after the Xiaoman

April rain, no dry soil in May, fire in June;

Winter festival at the beginning of the month, divination cold in the annual pocket;

Winter festival in the middle of the month, no snow and no frost;

Winter festival at the end of the month, divination cold in February;

Thunder in the fall, half of the winter harvest;

Twenty-eight messy clothes, spring after the mother face;

First month freeze dead turtle;

First month freeze dead turtle, spring after mother face;

The first month of the first month of the second month of the second month of the second month of the first month of the first month of the first year. The first month freezes and kills the turtle, the February chills and kills the cow;

The March chills and kills the sower, the April chills and kills the new wife;

The Qingming and the Guyu chills and kills the tiger's mother, the chilly dew wheat, and the frosty beans;

Lixia is a small fullness, and the rains catch up with each other;

Lixia is a rainy day, and the rice is to be cut to the point of being disposed of without disposition;

On the first day of June, a thunder presses the Nine Tables;

The chilly dew frosty, and the hudou

The first day of spring is clear, the first day of spring is clear;

The next day of spring is clear, the next day of spring is clear;

The next day of spring is cloudy, the flowers are inverted;

The best day of spring is a clear day, and the wind and rain are good for planting.

The next day of spring is clear, and the wind and rain are good for planting.

There are also some proverbs in various places, such as the "Festive Hundred Songs" sung in Sichuan, which combines Sichuan folk customs and festivals in a simple language:

Saying a son to say a son, the first month of the New Year to play the lion.

February hibernation holding silkworms, March Qingming grave floating son.

April, summer rice-planting, May, the end of the sun to eat dumplings.

Buying a fan in June is hot, and burning a bundle in July is the first day of autumn.

August is a festival of hemp cakes, and September is a festival of the sun.

October is a cold month for wearing a jacket, and the winter months are for baking a cage.

The year-end of the waxing moon is the time to go around and hide from the master of accounts.

Expanded Information

The practical value of the twenty-four solar terms is self-evident

The twenty-four solar terms scientifically reveal the laws of astronomical and meteorological changes. According to astronomical practice, the equinoxes (360 degrees, i.e., 0 degrees) are measured from west to east as the starting point. The sun from the zero degree of the yellow meridian, along the yellow meridian every run 15 degrees of the time experienced by the day is called a festival. Each year, the sun runs 360 degrees and experiences 24 solar terms, two per month. The number of days between two solar terms is a little more than 15, and the year is divided into 24 solar terms.

In other words, the twenty-four solar terms scientifically reflect the influence of the sun on the earth, including the exact timing of seasonal changes such as the arrival and departure of cold and heat, the occurrence of weather phenomena such as rainfall and snowfall, as well as the moments of occurrence of some climatic phenomena in nature.

For ancient China, which relied on farming, how much farmers could accurately grasp the weather and climate meant how much the next year's harvest could be, and the twenty-four solar terms provided scientific guidance for farmers to predict and grasp the weather and climate, and their practical value was self-evident.

Some of the twenty-four solar terms have gradually become festivals for the general public and, combined with folklore, have developed into festive cultures with distinctive regional characteristics. For example, the winter solstice festival, after thousands of years of development, has formed a unique festival food culture. Some of the more common customs are eating wontons and mutton on the winter solstice. Now, China's Taiwan still preserves the winter solstice with nine layers of cake worship ancestors tradition, in order to show that do not forget the ancestors, do not forget their "roots".

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Baidu Encyclopedia - 24 Solar Terms

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Phoenix.com - The "24 Solar Terms" is a great creation of the Chinese!