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The eighth is the seventeenth cold dew of the twenty-four solar terms. The journalist interviewed Liu Bailing, a famous folklore scholar in the city, and asked him to tell the story of Han Lu.
1 “Cold Dew Eats Cake”, which means to rise higher and higher
Liu Bailing said that Hanlu is the fifth solar term in autumn. During the cold season, as the momentum of cold Siberian air gradually strengthened, the temperature drop in most of our country accelerated and frosts began to appear in some places. Our city is also entering the late fall, this season is already the scene of “blue sky and yellow leaves”.
The “Collection of Phenomena of the Seventy-Second Order of the Moon” records the cold dew: “September Festival, when the dew is cold, it will condense.” The ancients also said: “The cold, the dew, the first white and then the cold.” You can see that “cold” means that the dew is thicker during cold dew, and the weather gradually changes from cold to cold.
The “Lunar Calendar Twenty Four Seasons” of Luanchuan county in our city has the local custom of “hanlu eating cakes”, referring to Luanchuan and other mountainous areas in western Henan. On the cold dew day, the mountain people will vaporize Gangzimo (also known as Cake), because “cake” is the same as “Gao”, which means to eat cake to climb higher and climb step by step. There is also a saying in the local area that “bachelor is rare after eating cold dew rice”.
2 “Bing Goose” flies south, chrysanthemum blooms with pride
The moment of the cold dew should be “the guest of the swan, the bird enters the water like clams, and the chrysanthemum has yellow flowers.” The wild goose is a “timer bird” or “migratory bird”. Common geese include swan geese, bean geese, and white-fronted geese. Because the great geese reacted more obviously to the regular changes in solar terms, “Heat returns north, cold comes south”, “Book of Rites · Yueling” has repeatedly used the flight of the wild goose as time signal.
The “Moon Order 72 Hou Jijie” read: “Geese are mainly those that arrive first in the middle of the fall season, and those that arrive after the fall season are the guests.” It means that after long observation, the ancients will fly back south first in the eighth lunar month of each year. Geese that fly back south in the ninth lunar month are called “bin geese.” Therefore, this Hanlu time should be called “Hongyan Laibin”.
“The bird enters the water and turns into a clam” is an ancient legend. The ancients observed that the birds seemed to disappear after the cold dew, but there were many clams in the sea. The feathers of birds are very similar to the patterns of clams, which is why the ancients believed that birds hid in the sea to escape the cold and turned into clams, which can be said to be an interesting misunderstanding.
“The chrysanthemum has yellow flowers” refers to chrysanthemums. The ancients used the word “Hua” as the same as “Flower”, and the chrysanthemum used yellow as its positive color, so its alias was “Yellow Flower”. In the season of “cold dew paraquat”, the chrysanthemum blooms with pride without fear of cold, so the chrysanthemum has become a symbol of strength and powerlessness in the heart of the Chinese people.
3 Autumn is high and cool, suitable for autumn plowing, dew evokes endless poetry
Liu Bailing said that cold dew is a solar term that reflects the characteristics of climate change. As a late autumn solar term, Hanlu is also the first solar term with the word “cold” in the twenty-four solar terms. Our ancestors planted, managed, harvested and stored according to the twenty-four solar terms in agricultural production activities throughout the year.
During the cold and dew season there is enough sun, which is the solar term with the highest rate of insolation throughout the year and is known as the autumn season. At this time, it is suitable for plowing and fall sowing. It is said that “the autumnal equinox is early, the frost is late, and the cold dew and wheat are sown on time.” Cultivated land has many benefits right now. The agricultural proverb says: “Plowing the land during the winter, the insects die and the soil dries up”, “The cold dew of August is sown later, the cold dew of September is sown earlier”, “The autumn equinox is plant in the river, in Bailu the mountain is planted, the cold dew and the river beach are planted. “
Furthermore, the dew of late autumn, like the spring rain falling on the grass, is often a lyrical image of literati and ink scholars borrowing landscapes, and the full dew evokes the infinite poetic sentiment of the poets. Bai Juyi, who has a close relationship with Luoyang, once sighed in the poem “Chishang” that “the wind blows and the cold is devastating.”
Wang Anshi, one of the eight great teachers of the Tang and Song dynasties, once wrote in “Dream Chongqing Aug. 19 Exam House”: “The empty courtyard is long in autumn, and the cold dew enters the list of twilight clothes “. During the season of cold dew, the poet sighed in the courtyard. The autumn day was long and the clothes on his body felt thin, at that moment he thought of his friends, so he could not help but give birth to the nostalgia of “Let’s talk and laugh about the moon phase and leisure.”
At this time, many people may miss their relatives or friends like Wang Anshi, and they would also like to appreciate those who care about them and treat them well in the future.Return to Sohu to see more
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