1. Poems about planting willows and trees during the Qingming Festival
Poems about planting willows and planting trees during the Qingming Festival 1. Poems about planting willows during the Qingming Festival
Planting willows Xia Wanchun in the Qing Dynasty
Thousands of brush blows are green and green, and the green is new and plump after the rain. But when I recall the Linghe Hall, poplar flowers are flying all over the ground.
Translation: Thousands of willow branches sweep across the mountains, making the mountains look increasingly green, and the willow leaves seem thicker and greener after the rain. It reminds people of the Linghe Hall where willows were planted all over, with poplar flowers and catkins flying all over the ground in the wind.
If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade.
Meaning: I plant flowers carefully, do a lot of fertilizing, irrigating, etc., but the flowers never bloom, and eventually wither; and a randomly broken willow branch is randomly inserted into the ground. I never took care of it, but after a few years, it became a lush willow tree.
It is a metaphor that if you want to do something, you spend a lot of energy and effort, but the result is not what you want; but unexpectedly, you can get good results smoothly. In Taoist terms, it means letting nature take its course and not forcing anything. It can also be seen from the side that the willow tree has extremely strong vitality.
2. Why are willows inserted during the Qingming Festival?
It is said that the custom of inserting willows is also to commemorate the founder of agriculture, Shennong, who "taught the people how to farm".
In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to predict the weather. There is an old proverb that "when the willow branches are green, it is rainy; when the willow branches are dry, it is sunny." During the Huang Chao uprising, it was stipulated that "the Qingming Festival will last for a period of time, and Dai Liu will be the number."
After the failure of the uprising, the custom of wearing willows was gradually eliminated, and only inserting willows remained popular. Willows have strong vitality. As the saying goes: "If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade." Willows will live when they are inserted into the soil. Wherever they are inserted, they will live wherever they are inserted. Willows will be inserted year after year, and they will become shade everywhere.
There is another saying about planting willows during the Qingming Festival: It turns out that the Chinese regard Qingming, half of July and the first day of October as the three major ghost festivals, when ghosts appear and beg for help. In order to prevent the intrusion and persecution of ghosts, people plant willows and wear willows.
Willow has the function of warding off evil spirits in people's minds. Influenced by Buddhism, people believe that willow can ward off ghosts, and are called "ghost-terrible trees." Avalokitesvara dips willow branches in water to save all living beings.
Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty said in "Qi Min Yao Shu": "Putting willow branches on the door will prevent all ghosts from entering the house." Qingming is the Ghost Festival, and when willow branches sprout, people naturally put willow branches on them. Liu Yi warded off evil spirits.
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Introduction to Qingming Festival:
Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms in our country. Since the twenty-four solar terms more objectively reflect changes in temperature, rainfall, phenology and other aspects throughout the year, working people in ancient times used them to arrange agricultural activities.
"Huainanzi?" "Tianwen Xun" says: "Fifteen days after the spring equinox, when Dou Zhiyi B, the Qingming Festival wind will come." According to "Hundred Questions of the Year": "Everything growing at this time is clean and bright. Therefore, it is called Qingming Festival." ”
As the Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases. It is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, there are farmers' proverbs like "Before and after Qingming Festival, order melons and plant beans" and "Afforestation is better than Qingming Festival". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.
However, as a festival, Qingming Festival is different from a pure solar term. Solar terms are symbols of phenological changes and seasonal sequences in my country, while festivals contain certain customary activities and commemorative significance.
Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important sacrificial festival. It is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb sweeping, commonly known as visiting graves, is an activity to pay homage to the deceased. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit tombs during the Tomb Sweeping Day.
According to the old custom, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the tomb of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, build new soil on the tomb, and fold a few branches. New green branches are planted on the grave, then they kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating wine and food.
Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Qingming Festival": "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village in the distance." wrote the meaning of Qingming Festival. Special atmosphere.
Qingming Festival, also called the Outing Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4th and 6th every year. It is the time when the spring scenery is bright and the grass is green, and it is also the time when people go out for spring outings. It is a good time for outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going outing during Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.
To this day, the custom of worshiping ancestors and mourning deceased relatives is still very popular during the Qingming Festival.
The origin of Qingming Festival:
my country’s traditional Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. The Qingming Festival is a very important solar term at the beginning. When the Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, there is a saying "before and after the Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans."
There is a farmer’s proverb that “Afforestation is better than Qingming Festival”. Later, because the Qingming Festival was close to the Cold Food Day, and Cold Food was a day when folk people banned fire and visited graves, gradually, Cold Food and Qingming Festival became one, and Cold Food became not only another name for Qingming Festival, but also became Qingming Festival. A custom of the festival is that there are no fireworks on the Qingming Festival and only cold food is eaten.
3. The origin of planting willows during the Qingming Festival
The custom of planting willows during the Qingming Festival has a long history. According to folklore, it became popular in the Sui Dynasty, which makes sense. Because in the Sui Dynasty In the era, when the canal just connected the north and the south, the river embankments needed to be planted with trees every year to strengthen the river embankments.
And willow trees have strong vitality, are easy to survive, and like moisture. "Willows become shade", and the Qingming Festival is also a suitable season for tree planting, so the custom of planting willows has gradually become a custom since then and continues to this day.
Regarding the willow planting during the Qingming Festival, there are legends and great poets from the Song Dynasty It is related to Liu Yong. It is said that Liu Yong lived a debauched life and often traveled among the flower streets and willow lanes. The singing girls at that time all loved his talents and were proud of being favored by Liu Yong.
But because of his unruly life, Liu Yong lived a life of dissoluteness. His official career was not allowed, and although he was a Jinshi, he died in poverty in Xiangyang. The singers who admired him raised funds for his burial expenses. Every year during the Qingming Festival, the singers would plant willow branches at his grave, and over time it became a reality. The custom of inserting willows during the Qingming Festival
4. The origin of inserting willows during the Qingming Festival
The origin and legend of the Qingming Festival
The traditional Qingming Festival in my country began around 20 years ago. In the Zhou Dynasty, it has a history of more than 2,500 years. The Qingming Festival was originally a very important solar term. When the Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, there is a saying "Before and after the Qingming Festival, melon seeds are planted." Beans". There is a farmer's proverb that "Afforestation is better than Qingming." Later, because Qingming and Hanshi were close to each other, and Hanshi was the folk ban on fire and tomb-sweeping days, gradually, Hanshi and Qingming became one, and Hanshi both It has become another name for Qingming, and it has also become a custom during the Qingming Festival. There are no fireworks on Qingming Day, but only cold food.
There is such a legend about cold food:
It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Li Ji, the concubine of Duke Xian of Jin, set up a poisonous plot to kill the crown prince Shen Sheng. Shen Sheng's younger brother Chong'er fled into exile in order to avoid the disaster. Chong'er suffered so much humiliation that most of his ministers went their separate ways one after another. Only a few loyal ones were left with him. One of them was Jie Zitui. Chong'er fainted from hunger. In order to save Chong'er, Jie Zitui cut a piece of meat from his own leg, cooked it over fire and gave it to Chong'er. Nineteen years later, Chong'er returned to his country and became the king. 1. Duke Wen of Jin.
After Duke Wen of Jin came to power, he greatly rewarded those ministers who shared hardships with him, but he forgot about Jie Zitui. Duke Wen of Jin suddenly recalled the past and felt guilty, so he immediately sent someone to invite Jie Zitui to go to court to be rewarded. However, after sending several times, Jie Wen Gong could not come. However, when Jin Wen Gong came, he could not come. When he arrived at Jie Zitui's house, he saw that the door was closed. Jie Zitui did not want to see him, so he had already hid in Mianshan (today's southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province) with his mother on his back. Duke Wen of Jin asked his imperial guards to search Mianshan Mountain, but they couldn't find it. So, someone came up with an idea and said that it would be better to set fire to the mountain, light fires on three sides and leave one side alone. When the fire breaks out, Jie Zitui will come out on his own. Duke Wen of Jin ordered a fire to be set on the mountain. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and three nights. After the fire was extinguished, the meson was not pushed out. When he went up the mountain, he saw that Jie Zitui, mother and son, were already dead holding a large burnt willow tree. Duke Wen of Jin looked at Jie Zitui's body and cried for a while, then buried the body. He found that there was a willow tree hole blocked by Jie Zitui's back, and there seemed to be something in the hole. I took it out and saw that it was a piece of clothing with a bloody poem written on it:
I cut my flesh to serve the king with my loyalty, I hope that the master will always be clear and clear.
It is better to be a ghost under a willow tree than to accompany you as a remonstrator.
If the Lord has me in your heart, remember me and always reflect on yourself.
I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, and I work diligently to keep the Qingming and the Qingming.
Duke Wen of Jin hid the blood letter in his sleeve. Then Jie Zitui and his mother were buried under the big burnt willow tree. In order to commemorate Jie Zitui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered to change Mianshan Mountain to "Jie Mountain", build an ancestral hall on the mountain, and designated the day when the mountain was set on fire as the Cold Food Festival. He told the whole country that fireworks were forbidden and only cold food was eaten on this day every year.
Before leaving, he cut down a section of burnt willow wood and made a pair of wooden clogs in the palace. He looked at it every day and sighed: "What a sad step." It is said that this is the origin of the mutually respectful title.
The next year, Duke Wen of Jin led his ministers to hike up the mountain in plain clothes to express their condolences. When I walked to the grave, I saw that the dead old willow tree had come back to life, with thousands of green branches fluttering in the wind. Duke Wen of Jin looked at the resurrected old willow tree as if he had seen Jie Zitui. He walked up to it respectfully, pinched the branch lovingly, made a circle and put it on his head. After the memorial ceremony, Duke Wen of Jin named the resurrected old willow tree "Qingming Willow" and designated this day as Qingming Festival.
From then on, Duke Wen of Jin often kept the blood letter on his sleeve as a motto to spur him to govern. He was diligent, clear-minded, and worked hard to govern the country well.
After that, the people of Jin State were able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they missed Jie Zitui very much, who did not live up to his merits and did not seek wealth. On the day of his death, fireworks are banned to commemorate him.
He also mixed flour with jujube paste, shaped it into the shape of a swallow, strung it with willow sticks, and stuck it on the door to summon his soul. This thing is called "Zhitui Yan" (Jie Zitui is also called Jie Zitui). Since then, Hanshi and Qingming have become grand festivals for people across the country. Whenever there is cold food, people do not light a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat pre-prepared cold foods such as date cakes and wheat cakes; in the south, they mostly eat green dumplings and glutinous rice with candied lotus root. Every Qingming Festival, people weave wicker into a circle and wear it on their heads, and stick wicker branches in front of and behind their houses to show their memory.
5. Why are willows placed at the door during the Qingming Festival?
The reasons for planting willows at the door during the Qingming Festival are as follows:
1. Willows are planted at the door during the Qingming Festival. The custom is said to commemorate Shennong who invented various agricultural production tools and once "tasted hundreds of herbs".
2. When Duke Wen of Jin and his officials were hiking up the mountain to worship Jie Zitui, they found that the old willow tree that had been burned had come back to life. Duke Wen of Jin immediately named the old willow tree "Qingming Willow" and broke off a few willow branches on the spot to wear on his head as a mark of commemoration. The ministers followed suit and became a habit. Wearing willows during the Qingming Festival has become a symbol to commemorate Jie Zitui.
3. It is said that willow branches have the function of warding off evil spirits, so wearing willows is not only a fashionable decoration, but also has the effect of praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits. Planting willows during the Qingming Festival may also be related to the custom of begging for new fires with willow branches during the Cold Food Festival in the past.
6. Ancient poems about Arbor Day
Original publisher: Li Pengya
Ancient poems about Arbor Day
Chapter 1: About Arbor Day Poetry
Poems about Arbor Day
3.12 I need trees
——composed for Arbor Day
▲Liu Lijun
I need trees and strength;
Let those who breathe oxygen enter the year happily.
Plant a big tree and call it a substance
Enter the annual rings and replacement. On the trail, there is no longer any fear of species loss and birds flying into the setting sun.
I miss the growth process of small trees
A piece of sunshine, a layer of air, and a drop of water
Drive the green vines to shake the spring crisply< /p>
Comfort tree species and order. The little girl seemed to have turned into a water duck, unable to contain her surprise.
Deep in the dense forest, no one can find the original small forest
There are so many trees, carrying the sun and raising their voices
The small tree used to call itself.
Calling out seeds and rain, calling out people’s moving steps
Approaching the sky, like a machine of kindness
Being lifted up by the green and dragged into the small shadow.
■Two flowers
Two flowers are stuck in the wind, I am
stuck to whose ears
The windlass , water wheel, big house spinning in the wind
A flower-like hat brim, many shining water particles
Two children suddenly appeared in the small garden
They danced with small shovels and planted trees
Like two naughty donkeys
The water was filled in a large tank, and suddenly it ran to the children to breathe. I thought of a child named Xiaomei
One day she was sitting quietly on a hay cart
patting the yellow straw, and another child walked by
and took her away The smell of maltose
Running to the field at dusk and weighing my feet
Blowing on the spring seedlings.
■The place where the big tree was cut down
The road continued to expand that day and the crowd swelled.
The moment the big bird flew over, it was the place where the big tree was cut down
Migrant workers shouted at work
7. What does it mean to plant willows during the Qingming Festival
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1. In memory of Shennong, the founder of farming who "taught the people how to farm".
Willow sticks come alive when inserted into the soil. They have strong vitality. Wherever they are inserted, they will form shade. The vitality of willow trees is particularly tenacious, and many willows will emerge from the planting. As the saying goes, "willows planted unintentionally will create shade." This gradually formed the custom of planting trees during the Qingming Festival.
2. It is said that planting willows will ward off evil spirits.
Among the Chinese people, willow branches have always been regarded as a symbol of warding off plague. It is said that this idea originated from Buddhism. According to the Buddhist classic "Initiation Sutra", Zen La Bhikkhu once used willow branches to curse the dragon and Guanyin. Then hold the vase in one hand and a willow branch in the other, dip the willow branch into the water in the vase and throw nectar to the world to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters. Affected by this, the Chinese people regard willow as a mascot to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and call it the "ghost tree".
3. Expressing nostalgia for Jie Zitui.
Legend has it that when Duke Wen of Jin and his officials were hiking up the mountain to worship Jie Zitui, they discovered that the old willow tree that had been burned had come back to life. Duke Wen of Jin immediately named the old willow tree "Qingming Willow" and broke off a few willow branches on the spot to wear on his head as a mark of commemoration. The ministers followed suit and became a habit. Wearing willows during the Qingming Festival has become a symbol to commemorate Jie Zitui.
The custom of "inserting willows during the Qingming Festival" has a long history. According to folklore, it became popular in the Sui Dynasty, and this statement is reasonable. Because in the Sui Dynasty, the canal had just connected from north to south, and the river embankments needed to be planted with trees every year to consolidate them.
The willow tree has strong vitality, is easy to survive, and likes moisture. As the saying goes, "If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will become shade." In addition, Qingming is also a suitable season for tree planting, so it is a custom to plant willows. From then on it gradually became a custom and continues to this day.