Folk proverbs about the Beginning of Summer. What are the folk proverbs about the Beginning of Summer?

Beginning of Summer - Proverbs

• Plant potatoes at the beginning of summer.
• Plant mung beans at the beginning of summer.
• In spring, fight for day; in summer, fight for time.
• Wind creates fire dragons and fog creates jaundice.
• Beginning of summer, sesame seeds are harvested.
• Plant hemp around the beginning of summer.
• Plant hemp at the beginning of summer, and it will have many branches and twigs.
• Plant melons and beans around the beginning of summer.
• One or two ears of corn, store them in the granary in a month.
• Corn in the Beginning of Summer and grain in the Grain Rain.
• Plant ginger at the Beginning of Summer and harvest ginger at the Summer Solstice.
• Wheat teeth show at the beginning of summer and need to be pulled out in January.
• When summer comes, peas grow a branch every night.
• Plant rice at the Beginning of Summer and plant sesame at Grain Full.
• When the season reaches the beginning of summer, millet is planted first and then hemp.
• No one outside the door asks about the falling flowers, the green slowly spreads across the horizon.
• The weather is dry around the beginning of summer, so fire dragons are often inevitable.
• Sorghum grows during Qingming Festival and flowers bloom during Grain Rain. Sweet potatoes are planted around the Beginning of Summer.
• Steamed bread from the ground and in the rocks, sesame seeds are planted in spring and oil is harvested in autumn.
• Plant shallowly first and then deeply, and plant three to five seedlings in spring.
• Planting rice (early rice) in April will fill the granary, while planting rice in May will leave nothing.

What is the Beginning of Summer?

Lixia is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer, and it falls on May 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the handle of the Big Dipper points to the southeast, and the sun's ecliptic longitude reaches 45°.
The Beginning of Summer is an important solar term that marks the beginning of the growth season for all things. The almanac states: “When the Big Dipper points to the southeast, it is the beginning of summer. All things grow at this point, hence the name the beginning of summer.” After the beginning of summer, sunshine increases, the temperature gradually rises, thunderstorms increase, and crops enter a stage of vigorous growth.
The Beginning of Summer is also the beginning of the Si month in the Ganzhi calendar. "When the Dipper points to the southeast, it is the beginning of summer. All things grow at this time, so it is named the beginning of summer." "Xia" in "Beginning of Summer" means "big." "Beginning of Summer" means that the plants sown in spring have grown upright by this time. Spring is for growth, summer is for growth, autumn is for harvest and winter is for storage. Summer is the best season for many crops to grow vigorously. When it comes to the beginning of summer, everything is flourishing. Due to my country's vast territory and large north-south span, the natural rhythms vary from place to place. During the Beginning of Summer season, only the area south of Fuzhou to the Nanling Mountains in my country is truly experiencing summer with "dense green trees and long summer days, and reflections of buildings in ponds"; while parts of the northeast and northwest have just begun to feel the breath of spring.

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