Valley rain
Gu Yu is the sixth of the twenty-four solar terms and the last of spring. In the mainland farming culture, the valley rain festival associates "valley" and "rain", indicating precipitation conditions and "rain and a hundred valleys". After the valley rain festival, the temperature gradually rises, the rainfall gradually increases, and the air humidity increases, which is suitable for the growth of cereal crops.
"The valley rain is cold, the tea smoke is clear, and it is peony time again."
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Poplar flowers fly, willows flutter, peonies spit out
The valley thrives, and it is a good spring
"The Seventy-Two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order":
"In the middle of March, since the rains, the earth is pulsating,
Now it rains again in the valley of water.
Rain reads as going to sound, like rain in my public fields.
Gaigu sows seeds at this time, from top to bottom also. ”
"Qunfang Spectrum":
"Valley rain, valley rain born",
The weather is mild at this time
Rain has increased significantly
The arrival of the valley rain
It means that the cold wave weather is basically over
It is also a good time to sow seedlings and pick melons and beans.
Seedlings are first planted, new crops are planted,
At this time in the Gangnam area
Under the moisture of the first heavy rain,
Cereal crops are starting to thrive.
It's late spring
In the southern region, willows fly down, and cuckoos cry at night
Peony spit, cherry red ripe
Everything is announced to us
Don't bear the last spring light!
Valley Rain
Phenology
Grain Rain
In ancient times, the valley rain was divided into three seasons
Yi Hou Ping was born
The second singing dove whisks its feathers
Sanhou Dai Sheng descended to Sang
Ping shi sheng 丨 ping, water grass also, and the water is flat so known as Ping, drifting with the wind, so it is also known as drifting.
The dove whisks its feathers, that is, the cuckoo of the eagle. Whisk, over-hit also. "Materia Medica" cloud, whisking feathers fly and wings flapping its body, qi also. When Gaidang is in a hurry to farm in March, the dove is chasing and the drum feathers are straight up and flying, so it is commonly known as cuckoo.
Dai Sheng descended to Sang Shu Dai Sheng, a Dai Gong. The Erya notes that there are victorious hairs on the head, and at this time the constant lies in the mulberry, and the cover silkworm will be born. He who descends is as heavy as the heavens, and the qi makes it so.
The flower letters corresponding to the three seasons of gu rain are: one waiting for peony; two waiting for fermentation; and three waiting for neem flowers.
A wait for peonies
Second waiting for fermentation
Neem flowers
"The wind has faith, the flowers are not wrong, the years are so, never lose." Every year from winter to spring, in the 8 seasons and twenty-four seasons from small cold to valley rain, each season has some kind of flower buds blooming, bringing about the wind of flowering news.
And cherish the spring light and welcome the early summer
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Edited by | Xie Qiongfang
Typography 丨 Lin Yifang
Proofreading | Wang Sixuan
Audit 丨Liu Xiaohuan
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