Twenty-four solar terms | see qingming festival from farming activities

The "24 Solar Terms" is the product of ancient agricultural civilization. It objectively reflects the periodic changes of temperature, precipitation and phenology in the four seasons. It has important guiding significance for understanding the relationship between heaven and man and helping people to properly arrange agricultural production and life. "Qingming", that is, the fifth solar term in the 24 solar terms, when the spring and the turn of the spring, about the Gregorian calendar around April 5, before the spring equinox, after the grain rain. With the development of history, the Qingming Festival has evolved into a collection of the third, cold food and other festival customs as one of the festival, it has become the only solar term included in the Chinese traditional festivals.

Tomb-sweeping day farming activities had known

"Tomb-sweeping Day, wheat long three sections", south of the Huanghuai area of wheat is about to booting, rape has flowers, northeast and northwest areas of wheat has entered jointing period. At this time, we should do well in the late fertilizer and water management and pest control work. The dry farming in the north, the early morning in the south of the Yangtze River and the middle rice are entering the suitable season for sowing in large quantities. During this period, it is the best time for spring cultivation and spring planting, the fields are full of farmers busy figure, people say: "Qingming grain rain two connected, soaking seed tilling Mo delay."

Although the Qingming Solar term has entered April, the weather is still changeable and cold waves sometimes appear. Sometimes hot and sometimes cold, warm and cold weather has been germinating and green growth of crops, forests, fruit growth and people's health is very harmful. If we do a good job of spring tillage production, we will have a solid foundation for annual agricultural harvest. During the period should pay attention to the preparation of fertilizers, pesticides and other means of production, pay attention to the application of good, enough base fertilizer, to organic fertilizer, and seize the time to transplant seedlings. At the same time, before and after the Qingming Festival, we should focus on vegetable sowing, seedling cultivation and planting to strengthen the field management of shed planted vegetables.