An article that takes you through Chinese culture - one of the 24 solar terms, Grain buds
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Twenty-four Important Chinese Festivals ---Grain Buds
The origin of Grain Buds, the eighth of the 24 solar terms, can be traced back to the millennia of observation and practice of the Chinese ancestors on celestial phenomena. According to the ‘Collected Explanations of the Seventy-two Waiting Seasons of the Moon’, ‘Grain Buds is a small fullness where things are full’, which originates from the natural law that the sun runs to 60 degrees of the yellow meridian.
Meaning: the fusion of the laws of nature and the philosophy of survival
Double characterisation of natural phenomena
The northern ‘wheat grain is gradually full’: at this time the northern winter wheat enters the grouting period, the grain is becoming full but not yet fully mature, which is the state of ‘ripening but not yet ripe’.
Southern ‘rivers are gradually full’: precipitation is concentrated in the southern part of the country, and the agricultural proverb ‘small full of discontent, drying off the fields’ emphasises the crucial role of rainfall in farming.
Importance to Chinese civilisation
Milestones in Agricultural Production
The ‘Maiqiuzhi’ in the north: wheat was approaching maturity, while the south entered the busy period of rice-planting and silkworm-raising.
Agricultural guidance: the ‘moving of three carts’ (water carts, spinning carts, oil carts) in Jiangnan and the ‘Xiao Man Hui’ market in the north demonstrated the precise scheduling of production activities by the festival.
Spiritual heritage of cultural symbols
A source of inspiration for poems and songs: from Ouyang Xiu's ‘I love the wheat on the ridge, laughing at the red in the wind’ to Xue Wenbing's ‘The cherries are ripe and the fish are fresh’ in the Ming Dynasty, the festival has become a vehicle for the literati's love of the idyllic countryside.
A modern revelation of ecological wisdom: Grain bud's emphasis on the ‘moderation’ of precipitation (the need to store water for drought prevention and flood control) is highly compatible with the contemporary concept of sustainable development.
Grain Buds is not only a festival scale, but also a condensed expression of Chinese civilisation's profound knowledge of the laws of nature and the wisdom of survival. Between the rolling waves of wheat and the rain of plum, it reminds us that the best state of life is the hopeful ‘small fullness’ that has not yet reached its peak. Just like the thousand-year-old statues in the Longmen Grottoes and the white space in the Suzhou gardens, the Chinese people have always written the code of civilisation between surplus and deficit.
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