What are Twenty Four Filial Piety and Twenty Four Flower Trade Winds ?

Filial piety is one of the important ethical ideas in ancient China, Guo Jujing of the Yuan Dynasty compiled the stories of 24 filial sons in ancient times, compiled into "Twenty-four Filial Piety", preface and poems, with the training of children, become a popular reading material to promote filial piety. Later, some people published "Twenty-four Filial Piety Poems" and "Twenty-four Female Filial Piety Pictures", etc., which were widely circulated. In traditional woodcarving, brick carving and embroidery, this type of inscription is common.

Twenty-four filial piety consists of the following twenty-four stories, and the different accounts are usually just arranged in different order:

Filial piety touches the sky, drama and entertainment relatives, deer milk and relatives, 100 miles of negative rice, finger pain, Lu Yi obedient mother, taste the decoction, pick up the strange vessel, bury the child and serve the mother, sell the body to bury the father, carve the wood, Yongquan Yue carp, Huai Tangerine bereaved relatives, fan pillow Wen Shu, the maid for the mother, smell the thunder and cry the tomb, cry bamboo shoots, lie on the ice and ask for carp, strangle the tiger to save the father, the mosquito is full of blood, taste the feces and worry, the nurse is not slack, wash the relatives and drown, abandon the official to find the mother.

In ancient China, five days were a waiting, and three waiting was a solar term. Every year from winter to spring, there are 24 seasons in the 8 solar terms from Xiaohan to Guyu, and each time there is a certain flower bud blooming, so there is a saying of "24 flower trade winds".

Among the plants that bloom in each of the 24 seasons, people choose a plant with the most accurate flowering period as a representative, which is called the flower trade wind in this season. 24 The crocus trade winds are:

Xiaohan: one plum blossom, two camellia, three narcissus;

Great cold: one waits for Ruixiang, two waits for orchids, and three waits for mountain alum;

Beginning of spring: one waits for spring, two waits for cherries, and three waits for spring;

Rain: one waits for cauliflower, two waits for apricot flowers, three waits for plum flowers;

Stinging: one peach blossom, two pear, three roses;

Vernal equinox: one begonia, two pear blossoms, three magnolias;

Qingming: one waiting for tung flowers, two waiting for wheat flowers, three waiting for willow flowers;

Gu Yu: one peony, two neem, three neem.

From this account, the annual flower trade wind plum blossom is the first, and the neem flower last. After the 24 trade winds, summer begins with the beginning of summer.

Twenty-four filial piety is the story of twenty-four filial sons, which was generally used as a reading book for educating children in ancient feudal society.

The detailed twenty-four flower letter is a very elegant custom to arrange twenty-four kinds of flowers from the solar terms from winter to spring.

Xiaohan: one plum blossom, two camellia, three narcissus; The first Hou Ruixiang in the big cold, the second Hou chrysanthemum, and the third Hou mountain alum; Beginning of spring: one waits for spring, two waits for cherries, and three waits for spring; Rain: one waits for cauliflower, two waits for apricot flowers, three waits for plum flowers; Stunned by the peach blossoms, the second is the tangtang, and the third is the rose; Vernal equinox: one begonia, two pear blossoms, three magnolias; Qingming: one waiting for tung flowers, two waiting for wheat flowers, three waiting for willow flowers; Gu Yu waits for peony, two waits for tulip, and three waits for neem.

In other words, plum blossoms represent the beginning of spring, and when the neem blossoms fall, spring is over.

Xiaohan One Wait Plum Blossom Two Wait Camellia Sanhou Narcissus Da Han One Wait Ruixiang Two Wait Orchid Three Hou Mountain Alum Lichun One Wait Spring Two Wait Cherry Three Wait Spring Rain One Wait Cauliflower Two Wait Apricot Blossom Three Wait Plum Flower Sting One Wait Peach Blossom Two Wait Lotus Tang Three Wait Rose Spring Equinox One Wait Begonia Two Wait Pear Blossom Three Hou Magnolia Qingming One Wait Tung Flower Two Wait Wheat Flower Three Hou Willow Flower Gu Yu One Wait Peony Two Wait Mi Mi Three Wait Neem Flower The so-called flower trade wind refers to the flowers that bloom during a certain solar term, because it is the wind that comes during the flowering period, so it is called the trade wind. People choose a flower with the most accurate flowering period as a representative, which is called the flower trade wind in this solar term, which means the wind weather that brings the sound of flowering. According to the Southern Dynasty Zongyi's "Jing Chu Years Said" cloud:

The beginning of the plum blossom, the end of the neem flower, where the twenty-four flowers trade wind. That is, from Xiaohan to Guyu a total of eight qi (eight air festivals), one hundred and twenty days, every five days for one wait, counting twenty-four waits, each wait should be a kind of flower letter. The twenty-four flower trade winds are two solar terms in each month, each solar term, and there are three seasons, each of which lasts for five days.

Every five days, there is a flower letter, that is, every five days there is a kind of flower bud blooming mold slippery and open, that is, January two qi six flowers trade wind. Every time the trade wind of the flowers is the opening period of the flowers, before and after the valley rain, the flowers are in full bloom, thousands of purples and thousands of reds, the fragrance is everywhere, and the spring is full of the earth. The neem flowers are ranked last, indicating that the neem flowers are blooming, and the flowers are over.

After the 24 trade winds, summer begins with the beginning of summer. As the saying goes, "flowers and trees are in season, and birds are singing to report the agricultural time", the flowers and trees, birds and animals in nature are all in accordance with a certain season and seasonal activities, and their activities are closely related to climate change.

Therefore, their various activities have become the signs of the seasons, such as the shade buds, leaves, flowering, fruiting, leaf yellowing and leaf fall of plants, and the dormancy, recovery, initiation, reproduction, migration and so on of animals, all of which are related to climate change, and people call these natural rhythmic phenomena phenology. The "Book of Songs" "Xiuluo in April, Song in May", "Flowing Fire in July", "Peeling Dates in August, Harvesting Rice in October" and so on are all manifestations of phenology. Phenology is closely related to agricultural time.

China is the earliest country in the world to study phenology, and the earliest phenological monograph, 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, silkworm raising, horse raising, etc. Since then, there have been similar phenological records in the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" and "The Book of Rites", and gradually developed into 24 solar terms and 72 solar terms in a year. The "Guangqun Fangpu" taught by Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty also has a record of 24 flower trade winds; Cheng Gouchang's "Acting Fanlu" said "When the flowers bloom in March, let the trembling wind flower the trade wind"; Lu You's "Traveling to the Front Mountain" also has a depiction of the flower trade wind with "the sound of clogs startling the pheasant, and the wind hyacinth is blooming".

24 The crocus trade winds not only reflect the natural phenomenon of flowers blooming and seasonality, but more importantly, they can be used to control the time of farming and arrange agricultural affairs. There are many folk proverbs that reflect phenology, such as: "peach blossoms, swallows come, prepare grain and plant fields", "cuckoo cuckoo, plant grass and harvest wheat" and so on.

Twenty-four flower trade winds Xiaohan: one waits for plum blossoms, two waits for camellia, and three waits for water to let Cha Xian;

Great cold: one waits for Ruixiang, two waits for orchids, and three waits for mountain alum;

Beginning of spring: one waits for spring, two waits for cherries, and three waits for spring;

Rain: one waits for cauliflower, two waits for apricot flowers, three waits for plum flowers;

Stinging: one peach blossom, two pear, three roses;

Vernal equinox: one begonia, two pear blossoms, three magnolias;

Clear and clear: one waits for tung flowers, two waits for wheat flowers, and three waits for willow flowers;

Gu Yu: one peony, two neem, three neem.

Xiaohan three waiting plum mountain fairy (one waiting for plum blossoms, two waiting for camellia, three waiting for narcissus);

Dahan three-candidate mold cover Ruilan alum (one candidate Ruixiang, two candidate orchids, three candidate mountain sails);

Lichun three waiting for spring peach hope (one waiting for spring, two waiting for cherries, three waiting for spring);

rain three apricot plum (one cauliflower, two apricot flowers, three plum flowers);

stun three peach trees (one peach blossom, two peach blossoms, three roses);

The spring equinox canopy ridge is three longitudinal pear orchids (one begonia, two pear blossoms, three magnolias);

Qingming three waiting for Tongmai willow (one waiting for Tonghua, two waiting for wheat flowers, three waiting for willow flowers);

Gu Yu three Hou Dan Mi Dong (one Hou Dan and Hao Peony Flower, two Hou Mi Flower, three Hou Dong Flower).

You see that the friend above is really careful, it's a pity that you don't choose him. I watched him for about two minutes.

Twenty-four flower trade winds, also known as twenty-four winds, because it is the wind that comes in the flowering period, so it is called letter.

Flower trade winds, winds that come in the flowering season. Chinese solar terms. Cheng Dachang's "Acting Fanlu" Volume 1:

When the flowers bloom in March, the wind is called the trade wind. "The Southern Dynasty Zongyi's "Jing Chu Years Said": The beginning of the plum blossom, the end of the neem flower, where the twenty-four flowers trade wind.

According to the solar terms of the lunar calendar, from Xiaohan to the pure valley rain of the year, a total of eight qi, one hundred and twenty days. Each gas is fifteen days, one gas is divided into three waits, one wait every five days, eight gases are a total of twenty-four waits, and each wait should be a flower. The order is:

Xiaohan: one plum blossom, two camellia, three narcissus;

Great cold: one waits for Ruixiang, two waits for orchids, and three waits for mountain alum;

Beginning of spring: one waits for spring, two waits for cherries, and three waits for spring;

Rain: one waits for cauliflower, two waits for apricot flowers, three waits for plum flowers;

Stinging: one peach blossom, two begonia, three roses;

Vernal equinox: one begonia, two pear blossoms, three magnolias;

Qingming: one waiting for tung flowers, two waiting for wheat flowers, three waiting for willow flowers;

Gu rain: one peony, two peony, three neem flowers.

Emperor Liang Yuan's "Compendium": "January two flower trade winds, yin and yang are cold and warm, winter is with the time, but the first day, there is wind and rain and a slight cold." Its flowers are:

Goose, magnolia, plum flower, poplar flower, alder flower, tung flower, golden cherry, goose yellow, neem flower, lotus, betel nut, mandra, rhombus flower, hibiscus, osmanthus, reed flower, orchid, knotweed, peach blossom, loquat, plum blossom, narcissus, camellia, ruixiang, its name exists. ”