The rain gives birth to a hundred grains, and everything is at the right time. This is the last solar term of spring. After the abundant vitality, spring gradually fades, summer becomes stronger, the days are longer and the nights are shorter.
Grain rain is taken from the meaning of “rain gives birth to hundreds of grains”. At this time, the precipitation increases significantly. The first seedlings in the fields and new crops need the moisture of rain. The rainfall is sufficient and timely. Cereal crops thrive.
In the south, there is the custom of picking tea in the rain.
As the saying goes, “Qingming breaks snow, Grain rain breaks frost”, as the last solar term of spring, the arrival of Grain Rain also means that summer is on its way.
“Seeing Peony in Three Dynasties of Grain Rain”, peony flowers are known as Grain Rain Flower and Flower of Fortune. Before and after the Grain Rain is an important period for the peony to bloom, so the peony is known as the “Grain Rain Flower”.
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In some ancient Chinese writings, Grain Rain is divided into three phases: The dove brushes its feathers; the third is the hoopoe descending on the mulberry.” It means that after the Grain Rain, the rainfall increases, the duckweed begins to grow, and then the cuckoo begins to remind people to sow, and then the hoopoe begins to be seen on the mulberry tree.
Before and after the Grain Rain, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing and has high nutritional value, so there is a saying that “Toona sinensis is as tender as silk before the rain”. People say that picking and eating Chinese toon in spring is “eating spring”.