Grain Rain(Gu Yu)
---谷雨 Grain Rain (6th solar term)Apr.19,20 or 21
"Guyu", there is a beautiful legend, passed a year ago to the vast majority of ordinary people to the Jade Emperor Millet, leaving enough for the day meal. Year drought, millet must yield, but not turned over to the Jade Emperor millet, furious and sent Secretary of State "Hope"下凡deliver an imperial order, "the world changed on the 3rd day one meal a meal."
Hope came to the world, sympathy for the people, unauthorized alteration of imperial decree as "the world one day to three meals a day meal", no mention of the matter of grain satisfied, then the world changed to three meals a day. Hope to report to heaven: "Hill has been deliver an imperial order, but the human catastrophe, food failure, non-grain deliverable." The following year, spring, beetles leave the matter of imperial Chuan leakage, the Jade Emperor banished to Motsch. management granary, send Tianbing days will go away all human food and seeds. When planting seedlings, the people cried .
Beetles are deeply distressed that in a spring rain, followed by the day, he secretly open the granary, the millet sowing the earth with the rain, the people "the world Guyu ", one after another went to go farming fields.
Breach of Article Motsch. days and was fined under the Emperor reborn as human cattle, farming the land forever. Later, people these days called "Guyu" as "divine cow" - Hope's birthday, this day of civil servitude farmers do not plow, but also fed feed, and some even cook eggs to feed the sweet red to show thanks.
Yang Wong by 30 degrees, the spring Guyu are the last cycle. Then Tanaka early seedling plug, the new crop species, most in need of nourishing rain, so to say "You spring such as oil." In this spring will do during the summer season approaching, the duckweed pond start growth, spring is the season before and after the harvest. At this moment, it gives people a world growth, flourishing scene. Peony bloom at this time is the time Guyu Peony tours as well as customs.
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