An autumn rain and a cold ancient style poem

The ancient poem “An Autumn Rain and a Cold” is the author Zuo Heshui’s work “The Heat in the Twenty-Four Solar Terms”

Full text: Once the summer comes out of the summer season, it is already too late for the cool autumn breeze to come. . As the sun moves southward, in the slanting light, there are horses and horses galloping across the street to cut rice.

This is a seven-character quatrain poem describing the 14th solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in autumn.

In the first two sentences, the poet expresses the climate characteristics of Mengqiu when the scorching heat begins to subside during the summer season and the autumn wind begins to bring coolness; The intensity of sunlight and heat have weakened, and my country's agriculture has entered the autumn harvest season, with rural fields showing a busy scene of rice harvesting.

The whole poem contains four sentences and 28 characters, which vividly and vividly expresses the characteristics of the summer solar term from many aspects and angles such as climate, weather, sunshine and agricultural production.

Extended information:

The autumn wind is different from the hot summer wind blowing from the south and the cold winter wind blowing from the north. At this time, the scorching heat has left and the autumn breeze has begun to bring coolness. The autumn wind is a cool breeze coming from the northwest, so it can give people a cool and comfortable feeling.

Because people often have a concept that spring is warm, summer is hot, autumn is cool, and winter is cold. In fact, from the beginning of autumn to before the summer heat, or in the early stages of the summer heat, in some years and in some areas it is still There is an "Autumn Tiger", which actually means there is autumn but no coolness, so people look forward to the coolness of autumn during the heat of the Beginning of Autumn solar term. I stayed there until the refreshing autumn breeze appeared during the summer season, and I always felt that it was long overdue.