中国范儿124 立春：希望在悄无声息中酝酿

立春：希望在悄无声息中酝酿

The Beginning of Spring: When Hope Brews In Silence

立春是我国二十四节气中的第一个节气。立，意为初始，意思是春天渐渐来临。

The beginning of spring is the first of the 24 solar terms in China. The beginning heralds that spring is coming.

沉睡的大地在酝酿着苏醒，万物在冬的裹挟中日渐回暖。立春虽然名字带“春”，却最不像“春”。中国古代将立春分为三候，一候东风解冻，二候蛰虫始振，三候鱼陟负冰，意思就是说，东风初起的时候，大地的冰雪就开始消融，蛰居的冬虫渐渐苏醒，鱼儿们负着未化的碎冰，开始到水面上游动。万物复苏，春意萌芽，生命蠕动，一年的希望便在这悄无声息中酝酿。

The sleeping earth is awakening and things are getting warmer. While the beginning of spring contains the word “spring”, it is not like actual “spring” yet. In ancient China, the beginning of spring was divided into three periods: the first period was when the east wind thawed, the second period was when the insects began to sing and the third period was when fishes swimming in the icy river were covered in layers of ice. When the east wind started to rise, the ice and snow on the earth began to melt, waking up the winter insects, and the fish began to swim on the surface. Everything recovered, spring sprouted, life wriggled, and hope for next year brewed in this quiet.

古时候，立春不仅仅是一个重要的节气，也是一个非常重要的传统节日。民间人们对迎春活动格外重视，张贴字画，剪春花，农民们用彩色的辫子鞭打耕牛，称之为“打春”。立春的民俗十分丰富，美食当然是必不可少的，立春之日食生菜，便是取“迎新”之意的说法。也有不少地域，依然延续着立春吃春饼的习俗，随着烹调技术的发展，春饼又变成小巧玲珑的春卷，咬上一口，别有一番滋味，也就是我们俗称的“咬春”。立春的习俗不胜枚举，流露着人们对春的无比喜爱。

In ancient times, the beginning of spring was not only an important solar term, but also a major traditional festival. People paid special attention to spring festivities such as putting up calligraphy and paintings, cutting spring flowers, and farmers flogging cows with colorful braids, which is called “beating spring”. The folk customs followed during the beginning of spring were very rich. Food was abundant. Eating lettuce at the beginning of spring welcomed the new. There are many regions that still continue the custom of eating spring cakes. With the advance of cooking technology, spring cakes have turned into tiny, exquisite spring rolls. Bite on them, and they have a special taste, which is commonly known as “spring bite”. The customs at the beginning of spring show people’s great love for it.

俗话说：“一年之计在于春”，“春”代表的是温暖，是生长，也是人们寄予的希望。中国自古是农业大国，春种、夏长、秋收、冬藏，四季轮回，农业最讲究时令节气，开春试犁，耕田犁地，春耕便是立春的头等大事，也寓意着正式开启庄稼一年的耕耘。恰逢2020年又是双春之年，一头一尾有两个立春，大多数农村长辈认为，如果一年中有两个立春的话，便是暖冬，降水会好，寓意吉祥之年。

According to a popular saying, “The plan of a year lies in spring.” Spring represents warmth, growth and hope. Since ancient times, China has been a large agricultural country, with spring planting, summer growth, autumn harvest and winter storage, and four seasons of rotation. Agriculture needs attention to seasonal solar terms. Spring ploughing is the top priority in spring, which also means officially starting the cultivation of crops for a year. It so happens that 2020 is also the year of double spring. There are two 'beginning of spring'  at the start and the end of year. Most of the elders in rural areas think that if there are two beginning of spring starts in a year, it will be a warm winter, with good precipitation and auspicious year.

立春象征着一年的伊始，更是农人播撒种子、种下希望的时节。如今，虽然我国农耕已经由大面积机械化生产取代人工劳作，但改变的是春耕的种植方式，不变的则是人们对春的祈盼和心中美好的希冀。

The beginning of spring symbolizes the beginning of the year and it is also the time for farmers to sow seeds and plant hope. Nowadays, large-scale mechanized production has replaced artificial labor in China, changing the planting mode of spring ploughing, but what hasn’t changed is people’s expectations from spring and their hope for a better future.

来源：中国网

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