wind in the flower season

wind in the flower season

People call the wind blowing when flowers bloom "flower trade wind", which means the wind with the sound of flowering. It is recorded in Zhang Dai's night boat of the Ming Dynasty as follows:

Song Xu Fu said in his poem: "cold food and rain for one hundred and five days, twenty-four flowers and trade winds." "Sui Shi Ji" said: "in January two Qi six Hou, from cold to rain. In April, eight Qi and twenty-four Hou, each waiting for five days, with a flower of the wind should be

development history

The trade wind of twenty-four flowers, also known as the twenty-four winds, is called faith because it is the wind of the time when flowers bloom.

As the saying goes, "flowers and trees are in charge of the season, and birds sing for the farming season". In nature, flowers, trees, birds and animals are all active according to a certain season, and their activities are closely related to climate change. Therefore, their various activities have become the signs of the season, such as the shade buds, leaves, flowering, fruiting, yellow leaves and falling leaves of plants, the hibernation, recovery, initial singing, breeding and migration of animals, etc., which are all restricted by climate change. People call these natural rhythm phenomena phenology.

In the book of recorded poems, "April Xiu Luo, may Ming Yao", "July Liuhuo", "August peel jujube, October harvest rice" and so on, are the embodiment of phenology.

Cheng Dachang's yanfanlu says that "when the flowers bloom in March, the wind is famous for the trade of flowers". Lu You's youqianshan also describes the trade of flowers as "the sound of clogs startles the pheasants, and the wind heralds the plum blossom".

Phenology is closely related to agricultural time. China is the first country in the world to study phenology. The earliest monograph on phenology and Xia Xiaozheng in the early Western Han dynasty recorded phenology, meteorology, astronomical phenomena and important political and agricultural activities in the order of 12 months a year, such as farming, sericulture, horse raising, etc. Since then, there have been similar phenological records in Lu's spring and Autumn Annals and the book of rites, which gradually developed into 24 solar terms and 72 solar terms in a year. In the Qing Dynasty, there were 24 records of flower trade in Guang Qun Fang Pu written by Kangxi religion.

In ancient China, five days were regarded as one solar term, and three solar terms were regarded as one solar term. Every year, there are 24 seasons in the eight solar terms from Xiaohan to Guyu, each of which has a certain kind of flower bud opening, so there is the saying of "24 times of flower trade".

Among the plants that bloom in each of the 24 seasons, people choose the most accurate one as the representative, which is called the trade wind in this season. The 24 saffron trade is as follows:

Xiaohan: one for plum blossom, two for camellia and three for Narcissus;

Cold: Daphne odorifera, orchid and alum;

The beginning of spring: first, welcome spring, second, cherry and third, hope spring;

Rain: first cauliflower, second apricot and third plum;

Jingzhe: peach blossom in the first stage, pear in the second stage and rose in the third stage;

Equinox: Begonia, pear flower and Magnolia;

Qingming: first, Tonghua, second, Maihua, third, Liuhua;

Guyu: Peony in the first stage, Camellia in the second stage and Melia azedarach in the third stage.

According to this record, plum blossom is the first and neem flower is the last. After 24 trade winds, summer begins.

The 24 fan flower trade not only reflects the natural phenomenon of flowering and season, but also can be used to master the farming time and arrange farming. There are many folk proverbs that reflect the phenology, such as: "peach blossoms bloom, swallows come back, ready to plant grain under the field", "cuckoo cuckoo, planting grass to cut wheat" and so on.

Cheng Jie's textual research on the "24 fan flower trade style" has detailed textual research on the misrepresentation of the "24 fan flower trade style", which is worthy of reference. See the first issue of Yuejiang academic journal in 2010, which can be downloaded online.

Chinese PinYin : Hua Xin Feng