Weather with flowering news. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai's "Night Sailing Boat" recorded that in the Song Dynasty, Xu Fu said, "Cold food and rain for 150 days, twenty-four times in Hua Xinfeng", and twenty-four times in Hua Xinfeng, also known as twenty-four winds. Because it is the wind that comes in response to the flowering period, it is called Xin. This is a solar term in China, which refers to 24 flowering periods among the eight solar terms from slight cold to Grain Rain. Each solar term corresponds to the blooming of one or more flowers, which is called the "Hua Xinfeng" of the solar term. In ancient China, five days was a cycle and three cycles were a solar term. Among the eight solar terms from slight cold to Grain Rain, * * * has 24 cycles, and each cycle has some kind of flowers in full bloom, so it is called "24 Hua Xinfeng".
24 Hua Xinfeng is:
Slight cold: plum blossom, camellia, narcissus;
Great cold: Daphne odora, orchid and alum in Phnom Penh;
Beginning of spring: Spring Festival, cherry blossoms, spring;
Rain: first-class cauliflower, second-class apricot flower, third-class plum flower;
Surprise: a peach blossom, a pear and a rose;
Vernal equinox: once begonia, twice pear and three magnolia;
Qingming: first-class tung flower, second-class wheat flower, third-class willow flower;
Grain Rain: One peony, two tea buds and three neem flowers.