Jingzhe

Jīngzhé English Etymology en cmn 惊蛰 Jīngzhé, from cmn 惊 rouse, startle, stir 蛰 hibernate rouse [insects] from [their] hibernation 1. Pronunciation en /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.d͡ʒʌ/ Proper noun The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar termJīngzhé listed on page 308 of the ABC Chinese–English Dictionary: Alphabetically Based Computerized, by John DeFrancis (1999; The University of Hawaiʻi Press; 0824821548 (10), 978-0824821548 (13)) — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March. en 1998 Robert B. Marks Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=weG4_jmy5E0C&pg=PA111&dq=Jingzhe 111 978-0521591775 In Cenxi county, south of Wuzhou on a tributary flowing into the West River, the local gazetteer even assigned a specific date to the introduction of double cropping of rice: “Planting an early crop of rice first began during the Tianqi reign (1621–27), [and after that] each year two crops were harvested. The early crop is planted at Jingzhe [“Waking of the Insects”, March 5] and harvested in Xiaoshu or Dashu [“Lesser” or “Greater Heat”, July 7–23]. The late crop is planted at Mengzhong [“Grain in the Ear”, June 6] and harvested in the first month of the winter [mid-November].” en 2004 Hanchao Lu Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=p9OUk0BU9ToC&pg=PA298&dq=Jingzhe 298 978-0520243781 In Shanghai, popular beliefs such as the idea that a thunderstorm prior to Jingzhe (the Waking of Hibernation, third solar period) foretells a bad year, eating many watermelons after Liqiu (the Beginning of Autumn, thirteenth solar period) may cause typhoid, tonics are most efficacious if taken after Dongzhi (the Winter Solstice, twenty-second solar period), and so on remained powerful in the twentieth century. References