Qingming, the March Festival, sweeps away the rain and makes the sky clear and the earth bright. The Qingming wind is as warm as wine, clear and warm. The Qingming wind is the Xun, and the Xun is the straight and straight. All things are aligned with the Xun. At this time, everything is clean and clear. "The tung flowers are blooming, and the rain is dredging to wash away the Qingming Festival." On the Qingming Festival, it rains and sunny, and it is the right time to welcome the spring and summer.
The water in March is still slightly cool. When I take a walk in the morning, the water of Yandi Lake seems to be still, and it is not like the melting light of the lake where "there is no goggles on the surface of the lake." Sunda in March The wind cemented the lake surface, reflecting the late spring light. The silver threads were intertwined, and the ripples seemed to be there or not. The silent and static tension was hidden under the spring water.
March is also called Jiyue, also known as Jiayue. In the late spring, the moon is shining brightly. Fragrant, hundreds of flowers are blooming, and the quiet apricot forest garden is particularly lively and full of light and shades of pink ocher. However, the side-leaf plum blossoms on the same branch are not in full bloom, revealing their fragrant stamens and smiling at the same time; the magnolia blossoms are blooming on one tree after another. During the Qingming Festival, the magnolia blossoms have reached the point of decline and are no longer as white as a jade cup. Gentle and subtle, as the east wind blows, the large jade-white petals fall down like falling butterfly wings, and tiny buds have grown under the pale yellow calyx.
The twenty-four flowers blooming in the wind are now coming to an end. The spring flowers are about to fade, and the lush green color of midsummer is about to gradually fade away. According to "Jiao Shi Bi Cheng", the three periods of Qingming correspond to tung flowers, wheat flowers and willow flowers.
Tung flower is also called the flower of "spring in the palace". Han Yu once described the delivery of flower letters in "Han Shi Sun Outing" this way - "The plum blossoms were just starting to get sick, and I went to see the plum blossoms in full bloom. I walked to the west of the city and returned melancholy, unable to bear the thousands of snow-capped trees. Recently I saw peaches and pears again, Handing over red and white is like fighting...Tonghua has become more complicated today, and it will be difficult to replace it until you are strong." The tung trees grow in clusters, and when they bloom, they cover the crown with flowers. The plain fields are pleasant, but when the wind and rain fall, spring is about to pass away.
Tung flowers can still be glimpsed in this busy and bustling city, but although wheat flowers do not have the beauty and fragrance of Youtan, they will fade in an instant when they bloom, and if there are many single flowers, they will last only a moment Xu, suddenly fell. The round lotus leaves are floating, the fine wheat flowers are falling lightly, the wind is falling and the wheat flowers are falling, and the falling leaves look like scattered snow, which is the phenology of spring and summer.
The willow moon is about to pass away, the tung flowers are about to droop, and the willow color is as pale as a wash. Under the influence of several spring rains, the smoky yellow willow branches are now full and swollen, hiding countless leaf buds called "green eyes". When those eyes are casually opened, several veins of green leaves will spurt out, and the continuous willow branches will burst out. Flowers, within a few days, all the grain-like blue eyes were torn apart.
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There are three periods of Qingming
The first period is Tongshihua.
The Paulownia tree knows that the sun and moon are leap years, and each branch bears twelve leaves
In leap years, the thirteen leaves are in harmony with the heaven and earth
When the moon goes up to the mountain pavilion, purple The tung tree is drooping and the shade is good
In the second period, the field mouse turned into a quail
"Suwen" said that the quail is also like a pigeon and small
Bao said, Rat Yin type, Zin Yang type
Yang Qi is strong, so it turns into Zin. Yin is transformed by Yang
In the third period, the rainbow begins to appear
"Annotations" says that it is the energy of the intersection of Yin and Yang
Therefore, the early Confucian scholars thought that the cloud was thin and leaking.
When the sun shines and the rain drops, a rainbow appears
Before and after the Qingming Festival, it is the best time to enjoy the scenery in major parks in Beijing. The ancients a few years ago were like this. It is said in "The Records of the Years in the Imperial Capital" that during tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival, all the men and women from the city came out of the suburbs, carrying drinks and picking up boxes, looking at each other from the hub of the wheel. Each carries a spool of paper kite, sweeps it, and casts it in front of the tomb. "Tokyo Menghualu" records that during the Qingming Festival, all social classes went to the countryside for spring outings and had banquets and parties until the evening: "The surrounding fields are like a market, with cups and plates often lined up under the fragrant trees or among the gardens. To encourage each other. Songs and dancing girls in the capital fill the garden pavilions, returning at dusk... Entering the capital slowly, the sun is setting against the willows; returning drunk to the courtyard, the moon is bright and the pear blossoms are bright."
Qingming Festival is actually the Qingming Festival. , the combination of Shangsi Day (the third day of the third lunar month) and the cold food season, in addition to outings and flying kites, "Yunji Qizhu" records: "On the Shangsi day of March, it is advisable to drink Yanle by the water to ward off bad luck and ward off bad luck. It's something." Mentioned the custom of purifying evil spirits by the water during the Shangsi Festival. Cultivating evil means purifying one's body. Ancient literati transformed this custom into poetry, creating the "Qu Shui Shang", which became an elegant gathering of drinking with the Qu Shui and chanting poems. Therefore, "In the ninth year of Yonghe, when I was in Guichou, at the beginning of late spring, I met at the Orchid Pavilion in Shanyin, Kuaiji, to repair evil spirits."
Although Hanshi is there, there are not many followers now, and the only one who remains in this world is Qingtuan. Yuan Mei wrote in "Suiyuan Food List": "Pound the green grass into juice, mix it with powder to make dough, and the color is like jasper." In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, mugwort is mostly used. Mugwort is also called Bingtai, medical grass, yellow grass, and mugwort. Wang Anshi's "Zi Shuo" records: "Ai Keyi (governing, stabilizing) disease will improve over time, so the word Congyi.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "Moxa leaves are bitter in taste and slightly warm in nature. They can be used for moxibustion on various diseases... to treat all bad odors." "It can be seen that mugwort green dumplings also have the function of suppressing the qi and preventing diseases. However, today's green dumplings are mostly made of glutinous rice, which is sticky and greasy. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.
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The burned capers on the ridges withered
The rice seedlings sown in the fields grew longer
Everything was full of vitality and Hope
May the little almonds be like wheat seedlings
Work hard to overcome the end, work hard and accumulate fruit
Let’s bear fruitful crops in the future!