Twenty-Four Solar Terms Song (Hakka folk ballad)

Lyrics: Qiulin (adaptation)

Music: Qiulin?

Sing: Autumn Forest

The spring rain shocks the clear valley sky in spring, the summer is full of awns and the summer heat is connected.

The dew in autumn is cold and frost falls, and there is snow in winter and a slight cold in winter.

The flowers bloom at the beginning of spring, the rain comes, the spring thunder and frogs cry, the spring equinox and the Qingming Festival [Ploughing the fields] Grain Rain spring tea

The fields are plowed at the beginning of summer, filled with water, and the mango seeds are watched. The fruits are watched during the summer solstice, and the grains are ripe during the summer solstice. The harvest is busy during the big summer.

Before the Beginning of Autumn, [Beans] are planted, the summer heat is over [Fields], the white dews [Yuntian] are at the autumnal equinox, and the crops will be harvested before the cold dew.

The frost has fallen and it is cold at the beginning of winter [Three crops], and there is little heavy snow to wait. Spend the winter with a minor cold, and reunite with a big cold in the next year

Interpretation: [Ploughing] means turning over the ground.

[Peanuts] refers to peanuts.

[莳田] planting rice.

[Farming] Some time after planting the rice, you need to pull out the weeds in the rice field, pull out some of the overgrown seedlings, and straighten the spaces between the rows of rice. distance before applying fertilizer.

[Threshing] means harvesting rice.

Song introduction: Most of the Hakka people make a living by farming, especially growing rice, which has become a part of the Hakka people’s life. The twenty-four festivals are also something that every farmer must know. This song also lets friends who have never farmed know what farmers are doing in each of the twenty-four solar terms.

The twenty-four solar terms originated from the Yellow River Basin. As far back as the Spring and Autumn Period, four solar terms were determined: mid-spring, mid-summer, mid-autumn and mid-winter. After continuous improvement and perfection, by the Qin and Han Dynasties, the twenty-four solar terms had been fully established. In 104 BC, the "Taichu Calendar" formulated by Deng Pingping officially included the twenty-four solar terms in the calendar and clarified the astronomical position of the twenty-four solar terms.

The time it takes for the sun to travel 15 degrees along the celestial longitude from zero degrees along the celestial longitude is called "a solar term." It runs 360 degrees every year and experiences 24 solar terms, 2 per month. Among them, the first solar term of each month is the "solar term", which is the 12 solar terms of Beginning of Spring, Jingzhe, Qingming, Beginning of Summer, Mang Zhong, Xiaoshu, Beginning of Autumn, Bailu, Hanlu, Beginning of Winter, Heavy Snow and Xiaohan; the second solar term of each month is It is the "Zhongqi", which is the 12 solar terms: rain, vernal equinox, Grain Rain, Xiaoman, summer solstice, severe heat, extreme heat, autumnal equinox, frost, light snow, winter solstice and severe cold. "solar terms" and "zhong qi" appear alternately, each lasting 15 days. Now people have collectively referred to "solar terms" and "zhong qi" as "solar terms".