Spring, spring, spring, spring rain, spring scenery, full of spring. There is a children’s song "spring, spring, where are you?" "Well sung: spring, spring, you are in the flowers’ smile; You are in the rain of spring rain; You are in the breeze; You are in children’s eyes. In spring, where are you? You’re in that life.
Although cold air will pour down from the north to the south from time to time in spring, there is even a "cold spring" weather, which makes people feel that winter seems to be still there. However, this can’t change the dynamic characteristics that spring can thaw the earth, revive everything and renew everything.
Therefore, in my opinion, in a year, spring is a thriving, full of vitality, the season that can best show vitality, and spring is a season that attracts people’s attention and is worth reading.
First Reading of Spring: Spring First
As we all know, people always start with "one"; Speaking of the four seasons, it always starts with "spring". It is common sense to sort spring, summer, autumn and winter in this way. We can also deeply understand the meaning of "headed by spring" in this way. Judging from the climate change of the four seasons, it begins with the warmth of spring, and only after experiencing the heat of summer does it transition to the coolness of autumn and the severe cold of winter. From the perspective of agricultural production, as the saying goes, spring crops in summer and autumn crops in winter. Without the seeds of spring, there would be no hoeing in summer, harvesting in autumn and hiding in winter!
However, we should note that, just as people move in a circle at equal distances, it is impossible to tell who is the leader and who is the tail of the team. The earth revolves around the sun all the time, and it is not so easy to distinguish which is the first and which is the tail. Mr. Mao Dun said in the article Winter: "When spring is coming, there must be winter first." Shelley, an English poet, has a similar poem in ode to the west wind, which has been widely quoted for many years: "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" The famous sentences of two famous artists tell us the fact that winter comes first and spring comes to the world after winter.
Of course! All the year round, spring, summer, autumn and winter, has been used to it for many years, and the convention has become a custom. This is also similar to the "first frost" in the 24 solar terms. In fact, from a scientific point of view, the word "first frost" is incorrect, because frost does not fall from the sky. However, since ancient times, it has become a conventional term, so it has been used all the time.
Second Reading of Spring: Spring is stupid
Han Liu Xi’s Interpretation of the Name says: "Spring is stupid for words (chǔn), and things are stupid." "Stupid" means "spontaneous and dynamic" here. In spring, everything moves spontaneously and is born of movement, which is a natural instinct. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the ancestors used the image of the sun and grass to form the word "spring". Obviously, it can be said that spring is full of vitality and warmth; Spring is growth and lush vegetation. This shows that spring is a season in which everything germinates, and then flowers bloom and birds contend. The weather conditions of six solar terms in spring listed in Nong Sang Tong Ji are briefly summarized: beginning of spring: early weather, east wind thawing; Second, the sting insect begins to vibrate; Third, the fish is cold. The yang has moved, and the fish is getting upstream and close to the ice. Rain: at the beginning, the otter sacrifices the fish (at this time, the fish is fat, so the otter sacrifices first and then eats); Second, wait for Yanbei; Third, the vegetation is sprouting. Surprise: at the beginning, the peach begins to bloom; Second, Cang Geng Ming (Cang Geng, that is, Huang Li also); Third, the eagle turned into a dove. Vernal equinox: at the beginning, the mysterious birds arrive (that is, Yan lai also); Second, Lei Nai speaks; Third wait, start the electricity. Qingming: at the beginning, Tongshihua; Second, the vole turns into an owl (the owl sounds like quail). When the yang is strong, the rat turns into an owl, and when the yin is strong, the owl turns into a mouse. Wait three times, and the rainbow will see you. Grain Rain: At the beginning, Ping was born; Second, singing doves and feathers; Third, Dai Sheng descended on Sang (Dai Sheng, a bird). This indirectly and fully shows that Chinese ancestors have long realized that spring is a season that can show vitality most.
The third reading of spring: the steps of spring scenery have successively.
In order to interpret the footsteps of spring scenery, we must first explain the division methods of the four seasons, which are as follows.
One is the division of astronomical seasons. From the astronomical phenomenon, the seasonal change is the seasonal change of the length of day and night and the height of the sun. In a year, the season with the longest day and the highest sun height is summer, the season with the shortest day and the lowest sun height is winter, and the transitional season between winter and summer is spring and autumn. As far as the northern hemisphere is concerned, the spring equinox (around March 21st), summer solstice (around June 21st), autumn equinox (around September 21st) and winter solstice (around December 21st) are the four seasons. Namely: the spring equinox to the summer solstice is spring, the summer solstice to autumn is summer, the autumn equinox to the winter solstice is autumn, and the winter solstice to spring is winter. For the convenience of statistics, people usually take March-May as spring, June-August as summer, September-November as autumn, and December to February of the following year as winter. Climate statistics also follow this pattern, and January, April, July and October are often regarded as representative months of winter, spring, summer and autumn.
The second is the division of four seasons in ancient China. In our country, it is customary to divide the four seasons by lunar month. Spring is from January to March, summer is from April to June, autumn is from July to September, and winter is from October to December. The first day of the first month is the first day of the whole year and the first day of spring, so it is also called the Spring Festival. In addition, in ancient China, beginning of spring started as spring, long summer as summer, beginning of autumn as autumn and beginning of winter as winter.
Although the above method of dividing the four seasons is simple and convenient, it has a common shortcoming, that is, all parts of the country enter the same season on the same day, which is very different from the actual situation in various regions of China. As far as spring is concerned, according to the division of astronomical seasons, March is already spring. At this time, the area south of the Yangtze River is really pink and green, and the spring is strong; People in Hainan Island have spent the summer wearing light clothes; Heilongjiang, on the other hand, is still cold and windy, ice and snow, and there is no spring. Therefore, in order to make the division of four seasons consistent with the natural scenes in various places, in the 1930s, Mr. Zhang Baokun proposed to divide the four seasons with the average temperature of five days as an index, which is called the division of four seasons with waiting temperature. Summer begins when the average climate temperature is stable above 22℃, winter begins when the average climate temperature is stable below 10℃, and spring and autumn when the average climate temperature is between 10 ~ 22℃. From 10℃ to 22℃ is spring, and from 22℃ to 10℃ is autumn. Therefore, such four seasons are called temperature four seasons.
China has a vast territory, spanning more than 50 latitudes from north to south, and its geographical conditions are complex. Due to the differences in the north-south position and terrain, the specific date of spring arrival and the length of stay are different.
According to the division of four seasons, generally speaking, there is no winter in the south of Fuzhou-Liucheng line and no summer in the north of Harbin. That is to say, there is no winter in South China south of Nanling, and it can be considered as the beginning of spring in the middle and late January. It should be pointed out that there is no winter, spring and autumn in the South China Sea Islands, but summer in all seasons. Most of the Jiangnan areas north of Nanling, namely Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan, entered the spring in early March; The North China Plain will be in early April. As for the northeast, it will be delayed for almost another month. In late May, spring will come to Heilongjiang Province, the northernmost part of China.
The specific time when spring comes has much to do with the terrain. For example, the Qinling Mountains, known as China’s climate demarcation line, has a great influence on this. Hanzhong, south of Qinling Mountains, has a bright spring in late March, but the horizontal distance from Hanzhong to Taibai Mountain is only over 100 kilometers, and Taibai and other places with an altitude of over 1,500 meters will be delayed for one month to feel the spring. For another example, due to the barrier of Tianshan Mountain, the Junggar Basin in northern Xinjiang only entered the spring in April, while the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang blew a spring breeze in March. As for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is known as the "roof of the world", although most areas enter spring from April to May, it is one month later than that in Jiangnan, which is almost at the same latitude. As for the northern Tibet Plateau, even in the hottest month, it still cannot rise to the temperature in spring.
Fourth Reading of Spring: Cherish the beauty of spring.
Although the steps of spring scenery are successively, after spring arrival, spring scenery is everywhere. Turning to literary books and periodicals, there are not a few poems and prose works praising spring written by literati in past dynasties, which can be described as abundant spring poems. What I appreciate more is the comprehensive summary of the spring scenery in the world in the Jilin folk song "Song of Spring Day": "Spring water flows in the mountains in spring, and spring grass releases spring cattle in spring. Spring flowers bloom in the spring garden, and spring birds fall on the heads of spring trees. Spring students write spring characters, and the scenery in spring can really stay. " I think it should be added: "Spring shines in the world, and spring flowers bloom in my heart."
As mentioned above, spring is very beautiful, but the days of staying are limited. Although spring almost comes to the world on time every year, spring is really precious.
As we all know, "Chunhua Qiushi" is used to describe people’s literary talent and virtue, which means that they are knowledgeable and virtuous; It is also used to refer to the passage of time and the change of years. It is more used to describe the causal relationship of things. "Hua" is the same as "flower", which blooms in spring and bears fruit in autumn. It is extended to sweat and cultivate first, sow in time, and then have the joy of harvest. Others refer to "Chunhua" as youth and youth. It can be seen how beautiful and precious spring is!
There are even famous sayings that people often quote, "A year’s plan lies in spring" and "A moment in spring is worth a thousand dollars". In the Song of the Year in the Ming Dynasty, Tang Bohu pointed out that "spring night is worth a thousand dollars a minute", but said that "I can’t buy it back with a thousand dollars" and "advised people to travel by candlelight at night". The above-mentioned "things are born stupid", that is, "moving spontaneously", actually means that animals and plants are busy nervously: they will never live up to this beautiful spring. As the highest creature, it is even more important for us not to waste this beautiful spring scenery, not to "I awake light-hearted this morning of spring", but to take active actions to "spring" ourselves in this season of "all loves can’t be caged", so as to make ourselves an "almond" that "comes out of the wall". (Wang Qinmo)
(Source: Meteorological Knowledge Image Source Network Editor: Wang Meili)
