The full text of the Song of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms:
The spring rain shocks the spring and clears the valley, and the summer is full of awns and the summer heat is connected.
Autumn is dew, autumn is cold and frost is falling, winter is snowing and there is little severe cold in winter.
The two sections of each month will not change, with a difference of one or two days at most.
In the first half of the year it was 621, and in the second half it was 823.
The Song of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms is a short poem compiled to facilitate the memory of the twenty-four solar terms in the ancient Chinese calendar. There are many versions that have been circulated to this day. It is the crystallization of the long-term experience and wisdom of the working people in ancient China.
Solar terms song:
The plum blossoms are particularly beautiful at the beginning of spring, and the red apricot flowers are in full bloom after the rain;
The thunder is heard in the reed forest, and butterflies dance among the flowers at the spring equinox.
The strings of kites flying during the Qingming Festival are broken, and the tender tea leaves of Grain Rain are connected with emeralds.
The mulberry fruits of Beginning of Summer are like cherries, and Xiaoman is raising silkworms and farming.
The jade seedlings planted with mangoes are placed in front of the garden, and the rice flowers are as white as white on the summer solstice;
The wind in the slight summer will make the beans ripen early, and the red lotus will be enjoyed by the pond in the summer.
The cicadas at the beginning of autumn make people sleep, and the sunflowers smile in the summer heat;
The white dew swallows return and the geese come again, and the garden is filled with the fragrance of cinnamon and osmanthus at the autumnal equinox.
The field of cold dew vegetable seedlings is green, and the sky is full of reed flowers after frost;
The beginning of winter brings good news and presents three auspicious signs, and light snowflakes fly.
The heavy snow and cold plum blossoms are blowing in the wind, and the auspicious snow in the winter solstice heralds a good harvest;
The wanderers in the minor cold return home homesick, and they celebrate reunion at the end of the year in the severe cold.