It's a proverb widely circulated among the people that thunder comes before the sting, and there will be no good weather for 42 days.
There are similar sayings, such as "The sky will not be seen for 42 days before the thunder", "Before the thunder, it will clear up after sunset", "Before the thunder, the clouds will not open for 49 days" and so on.
extended reading: what is a proverb?
Proverbs are concise phrases widely circulated among the people, most of which reflect the practical experience of working people, and are generally handed down by word of mouth. It is mostly colloquial short sentences or rhymes that are easy to understand.
ready-made words commonly used in people's lives. Proverbs are similar to idioms, but they are colloquial, easy to understand, and generally express a complete meaning, with almost one or two short sentences in form. Proverbs include a wide range of agricultural proverbs, such as "plant melons and beans before and after Qingming"; Some are rational proverbs, such as "as you sow, you reap"; Some belong to common sense proverbs in all aspects of life, such as "modesty makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind." "Walk a hundred steps after a meal and live to ninety-nine." And so on, there are many categories, countless.
Proverbs, like idioms, are part of the whole language, which can increase the distinctiveness and vividness of the language. But proverbs and famous sayings are different. Proverbs are the practical experience of working people, while famous sayings are what celebrities say.
Extended reading: Jing Zhe
Jing Zhe, called "Qi Zhe" in ancient times, is the third of the 24 solar terms, marking the beginning of the mid-spring season; When the sun reaches 345 longitude. "twenty-four solar term": "February Festival ... everything is shocked and shocked into thunder, so it is called a sting. It is a sting that leaves."
Previously, insects hid in the soil in winter without drinking or eating, which was called "sting"; On the "Sting Festival", the spring thunder in the sky wakes up the animals that live in seclusion, which is called "shock". Therefore, when the insects are startled, they wake up, the weather gets warmer, and there is spring thunder gradually, so most areas of China enter the spring ploughing season. In ancient times, it was divided into three stages: "When the peach is waiting, it will begin to blossom;" Second, wait for Cang Geng (Huang Li) to sound; Three waiting eagles turn into doves. " The flower letter represented by the three stages of fright is: "peach blossom, apricot blossom and rose." .
Extended reading: What do you mean, you are shocked before the thunder rings?
it's just in the alternate season of winter and spring that the spring air begins to sprout, and at this time, the activity of cold air is still very frequent. If it thunders before the "shock", it means that the spring air germinates earlier, the warm and humid airflow is very active, and it is easy to have continuous rainy weather after the cold and warm airflow meet.
Sting and thunder attract the most attention. For example, "it thunders before the shock, and the clouds will not open for forty-nine days." The solar term of fright is in the middle of cold and warm, and the proverbs that predict the weather in the later period according to the cold and warm are: "Cold fright, warm spring equinox" and so on. The wind of the sting festival is also used as a basis for predicting the weather in the later period. Such as "the north wind blows when you are scared, and you will spend the winter from the beginning" and "the south wind blows when you are scared, and the seedlings are planted late".
twenty-four solar term says: "On February Festival, everything is shocked, and the shock is thunder, so it is called" Jing Zhe ". It' s a cockroach that ran away. " From this, we can see that "Jing Zhi" means that when the weather gets warmer, the spring thunder begins to sound, waking up the insects that are dormant in the ground and hibernating. Of course, insects can't hear the thunder, because the warming weather is the reason why they end their hibernation and "run away in surprise".
There is a proverb that says, "Thunder stuns Gu Mi" and "Thunder stuns Remy like mud". This means that it is normal to hear thunder on the day or after the shock, which proves that there will be a good harvest this year with good weather.
However, in some areas, it is taboo to hear thunder the day before the shock, and it is concluded that "before the shock, the thunder sounds first, and the rain is like a dragon". It is believed that the year of thunder before and after the shock is doomed to be a year of famine. Now it seems that this statement is not accurate. The real thunder occurred after Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the reason why the stinging insects "started to emerge" was that the soil temperature gradually increased.
since this solar term, the temperature has risen rapidly, and spring thunder has gradually appeared in most areas of the Yangtze river basin. In most parts of southern China, the first sound of spring thunder can also be heard in perennial rain and fright; In the northwest of South China, except for a few years, there is usually no thunder until Qingming.
China has a vast territory, and the climate varies greatly from place to place. The south and the north behave differently on the day of the fright. The saying that "the first thunder comes after the fright" is very suitable for the Yangtze River basin, while the first thunder day in the north usually lasts until late April.
So it's normal for us to be shocked and thunder, but the time is not fixed, and it's normal before and after the shock, so everyone looks at it with a normal heart, and the famine is not reliable, so it's true to prevent colds and pay attention to health.