Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - Flying snow welcomes spring and warms spring, burning incense and sending wax wintersweet.

Flying snow welcomes spring and warms spring, burning incense and sending wax wintersweet.

Flying snow welcomes the spring, burning incense to send wintersweet, which means that flying snow will usher in spring again, the weather will get warmer, incense will be lit to send wintersweet, and wintersweet will bloom.

The ups and downs sent away the spring, and the heavy snow ushered in the spring. "Wax" refers to the twelfth lunar month. Sending wax is to bid farewell to the cold of December. /kloc-spring is coming in October/February, so the flowering of Chimonanthus praecox has the significance of breaking the winter and shocking the spring. Chimonanthus praecox blooms at the end of winter, breaking the cold and cheerless situation of winter and calling for the awakening of spring.

The legend about wintersweet:

Legend has it that wintersweet has no fragrance. The monarch of Guo Yan in the Western Zhou Dynasty (now northwest of Yanling, Henan Province) liked Huang Meihua very much, but thought it was not fragrant. He ordered the gardener to let Huangmei smell sweet within a time limit, or all of them would be put to death. A beggar named Yao was at a loss and took some rotten plums to help graft them on Huangmei.

After a while, the buds of Huangmei gave off a burst of fragrance. The monarch was overjoyed and immediately ordered the gardener Yao to be called to the garden as a gardener. Later, Guo Yan was destroyed by the State of Zheng, and the imperial court was in ruins. However, this garden has been preserved and turned into a village in Yao Jia, which specializes in raising Huangmei.