Complete Collection of Agricultural Proverbs: A Summary of Practical Farming Experience in Rhymes
Proverbs are a fixed form of expression widely circulated among the people, reflecting profound truths and summarizing rich experience in simple, popular, concise and vivid language. They are a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation and have always been deeply loved by the people. In agricultural production, agricultural proverbs are usually used to guide farming. Let us take a look at the complete collection of agricultural proverbs below!
Rainfall and Agriculture
When spring thunder roars, all things grow.
Spring rain is as precious as oil, but too much of it makes farmers worry.
Three rains at the Start of Spring, and rice everywhere.
If spring rain floods the ridges, wheat and peas lose their seed.
Rain on Qingming Festival, and wheat and peas fill the fields.
Wheat fears night-long rain at Qingming.
Summer rain is the rice's life, spring rain is the wheat's disease.
Rain in the third month is as precious as oil; rain in the fourth month is good for hoeing.
Three rains in spring, and no lack of rice after autumn.
A rain around Qingming, and peas and wheat pass their exams.
Money can hardly buy a dry fifth month; a wet sixth month means a full belly.
One ploughing's rain in spring, ten thousand dan of grain in autumn.
A wet sixth month, and gold comes out of the ground everywhere.
Spring rain flows through the streets, and harvesting wheat wears out the ox.
Rain at night, clear by day, and there is nowhere to store the grain.
A spell of sun and a spell of rain, and the yellow seedlings planted yield white rice.
No rain in the dog days, no rice in the grain; much rain in the dog days, much rice in the grain.
The dog days need soaking rain, and every hill of millet bends its stalks.
One storm a day in the dog days, and you can sit at home harvesting rice.
Night rain on autumn crops is better than manure; one night of rain, one dose of fertilizer.
Once the Start of Autumn comes, wherever it rains, there is a harvest.
Rain at the Start of Autumn and all things are harvested; rain at the End of Heat and all things are lost.
Rain at the End of Heat, rice in the granary.
Rain at the End of Heat rots the grain basket.
Temperature and Agriculture
If Qingming is hot early, the early rice will surely be good.
If you don't take up a fan in the fourth month, the farming man is frantic with worry.
If summer acts like autumn, there will be no harvest.
If the fifth month is not hot, the rice will not set grain.
If the sixth month is not hot, the rice will not set grain.
If you cover yourself with a quilt in the sixth month, there will be grain but no rice.
If the dog days are not hot, the five grains will not set.
The bed is too hot to lie on, yet in the fields the crops just keep growing.
People jump about from the heat indoors, while the rice laughs merrily in the fields.
People duck indoors, while the rice shoots up in the fields.
When people are hot they jump; when rice is hot it laughs.
People fear poverty in old age; rice fears the Cold Dew wind.
If the Cold Dew wind strikes, the harvest comes to nothing.
Late rice depends entirely on the long dog days; a hot autumn brings in the late fields.
The bitter bug in wheat cannot do without freezing.
Freeze through the wheat roots, and the hemp rope snaps from carrying.
Cold brings in the wheat, heat brings in the autumn harvest.
Summary: Proverbs are a fixed form of expression widely circulated among the people, reflecting profound truths and summarizing rich experience in simple, popular, concise and vivid language. They are a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation and have always been deeply loved by the people. In agricultural production, agricultural proverbs are usually used to guide farming. Let us take a look at the complete collection of agricultural proverbs below!
Snowfall and Agriculture
If the twelfth month brings half a foot of snow, the wheat still complains its “quilt” is not enough.
Wheat seedlings under a snowflake quilt will sleep on steamed buns next year.
Heavy snow fills the sky, and the coming year is a bumper year.
Heavy snow piles up, and wheat fills the house.
Heavy snow this winter, a good harvest next year.
Heavy snow foretells a bumper year.
One winter snow, one fortune; one spring snow, one disaster.
Winter snow is a quilt; spring snow is a knife.
Twelfth-month snow is like a quilt; spring snow freezes people to death.
Winter snow is the wheat's quilt; spring snow rots the wheat roots.
Winter snow is a quilt; spring snow is a ghost.
Winter snow means a plentiful year; spring snow is useless.
Spring snow fills the ditches, and the summer fields yield nothing.
Snow melts into rivers, and the wheat harvest is thin.
Spring snow flows into rivers, and everyone eats white steamed buns.
Planting seedlings when it is too cold risks rotting them; young seedlings emerging from water fear white frost.
Cold damages the roots; frost strikes the tips.
Late frost on mulberry leaves drives the silkworm keeper frantic.
Late frost damages cotton seedlings; early frost damages cotton bolls.
Cotton fears a stretch of overcast days in the eighth month; rice fears a single frost at Cold Dew.
Frost on buckwheat, and every grain drops off.
On the first day of the eighth month the wild goose gate opens, and frost comes at the wild geese's feet.
After a cold wave there are many clear days; with no clouds at night, the ground is all frost.
A north wind with no dew surely means frost.
Frost strikes in patches; hail strikes in lines.
Wind blows over a wide patch; hail falls in a line.
Spring drought fills the granary; summer drought cuts off the seed grain.
Spring drought does not count as drought; autumn drought halves the harvest.
Spring drought builds the granary; autumn drought cuts off the seed grain.
In the polder, dying of drought means fear of flooding; in the mountains, dying of flood means fear of drought.
Do not fear drought on the seed; fear drought on the autumn seedlings.
Do not fear drought on the seedlings; fear drought on the seed.
Three years bring two harvests, and scorched rice crust covers the wall top.
Polder fields are good to plant, but the plum rains are hard to endure.
Polder fields are good to work, but the fifth month is hard to endure.
A night in a polder field means a year of famine.
Flood disaster at the head, drought disaster at the tail.
A flood disaster lasts a hundred days; a drought disaster lasts a year.
A flood disaster is a line; a drought disaster is a wide patch.
The fifteenth of the seventh month decides flood or drought; the fifteenth of the eighth month decides the harvest.
Phenology and Agriculture
When the nine nines end and poplars bloom, all the farm work comes at once.
When poplar leaves clap like hands, old men press the melon vines.
When poplar leaves clap like hands, sorghum is planted everywhere.
When poplar leaves are as big as coins, plant sweet melons quickly. When poplar leaves rustle, plant watermelons quickly.
When poplar leaves are as big as coins, cotton is planted everywhere.
When poplar leaves are as big as coins, it is time to plant cucumbers.
When poplar catkins fly, plant cotton.
When willow catkins drift, plant sorghum.
When willow catkins bloom, plant beans and melons.
When willow catkins swirl in confusion, every household plants rice seedlings.
When willow buds pucker, plant yams in the soil.
When willow catkins fall, plant yams.
When willow catkins fall to the ground, cotton is born.
When paulownia leaves are as big as horse hooves, plant rice seed in the mud without worry.
When the paulownia tree blooms, it is just time to plant sesame.
When paulownia flowers fall to the ground, it is too late to plant peanuts.
When paulownia flowers fall to the ground, plant grain seed in the mud.
When toon buds swell, plant glutinous millet. When toon buds sprout, plant cotton.
When the toon tree tips can be grasped in one hand, every household plants cotton.
When the toon tree's coil is big, it is time to plant the seedlings.
When jujube buds sprout, plant cotton. When jujube buds sprout, plant sesame and melons.
When jujubes can plug your nostrils, carry the drill legs and sow bean seed.
When jujubes turn red-bellied, sharpen the sickle to cut millet.
When elms hang coins, it is good to plant cotton. When elm coins swell, plant sweet potatoes.
When elm coins rustle, sow sorghum seed.
When elm coins turn yellow, busy planting grain; when poplar catkins fall, plant mountain crops.
Peach blossoms open and plum blossoms fall, and planting corn seed is no mistake.
Peach blossoms open, apricot blossoms fade, and when plum blossoms bloom, sell the bolt vegetables.
When peach trees bloom, plant melons in the field.
When peach blossoms fall to the ground, beans go into the mud.
When the pear tree blooms, plant rice seedlings early.
When the smartweed blooms, millet comes out. When the smartweed blooms, hemp comes out.
When the seven-li flower blooms, go home and sow rice seedlings.
When barley fills with grain, hurry to plant rice seedlings.
When persimmon buds sprout, plant cotton.
When wheat sheds its pollen, set out cucumbers.
When rice seedlings sway in the wind, plant peanuts.
When bamboo shoots are as long as a steelyard rod, hatch silkworms without asking mother.
On the eighth day of the fourth month, pick amaranth, and every household in the four villages transplants rice seedlings.
In the fourth month, when the south wind blows and barley turns yellow, silkworm work is barely done and rice transplanting begins.
When lotus leaves are as big as coins, plant cotton everywhere.
When lotus buds are in bud, plowing and harrowing are in chaos. When lotus flowers bloom, rice seedlings are being transplanted.
When chrysanthemums turn yellow, busy planting wheat.
When mulberries turn black, cut barley.
When wheat yellows, apricots ripen; when beans yellow, crabs fatten.
When loquat blooms, eat persimmons; when persimmon blooms, eat loquat.
When papaya blooms, plant adzuki beans; when adzuki beans bloom, harvest papaya.
When sorghum ripens, harvest rice.
Summary: Proverbs are fixed sayings widely circulated among the people, reflecting profound truths and summing up rich experience in simple, plain, concise and vivid language. They are a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation and have always been deeply loved by the people. In agricultural production, farming proverbs are usually used to guide agricultural production. Let us take a look together at this great collection of farming proverbs!
Seeds and Agriculture
A good son needs a good mother; good seed yields more grain.
Good flowers bear good fruit; good seed grows good rice.
Good seed produces good seedlings; good flowers bear good peaches.
Good seed produces good seedlings; a good gourd makes a good ladle.
Whatever the seed, so the seedling; whatever the gourd, so the ladle.
If the seed is poor and the seedling is crooked, the gourd you get has a lopsided bottom.
Plant good seed for three years, and if you do not select, it will change.
One grain of mixed seed is not a little; after another three years you cannot pick it out.
If you do not select seed for three years, increasing yields will come to nothing.
If you farm without selecting seed, you will work yourself to death for nothing.
Impure seed ruins you completely.
If the seed is poor, a bumper harvest is hard to guarantee.
Buy seed cheaply, and you get a big patch of empty field.
Good seed grows good seedlings; bad seed grows barnyard grass.
If seed is not well selected, the whole field grows barnyard grass.
No matter how much you calculate, it is not as worthwhile as good seed.
If seed grain is not exchanged, the harvest will be poor.
Select seed every year, and yields rise step by step.
The more you fan a fire, the stronger it burns; the more you select seed, the stronger it becomes.
Seed grain must be selected often; a millstone must be sharpened often.
Change the rice seed, and you gain an extra dan of rice.
Exchange the wheat seed, and it is as good as applying a round of fertilizer.
Good seed is as good as a top dressing of manure.
Select good seed for the field, and one ridge equals two.
Look at the field to select seed; look at the seed to farm the field.
First quality, second quantity; select seed in the field and you will not be fooled.
Pick in the field, select on the threshing floor; busy for half a day, sweet for a year.
Seed fears floating on water; rice fears a broken waist.
Selecting at home is not as good as selecting on the threshing floor; selecting on the threshing floor is not as good as selecting in the field.
Selecting on the threshing floor is not as good as selecting in the field; selecting in the field still requires selecting grain by grain.
When seed goes through the winnowing fan, poor seed is easy to spot.
When seed passes through the sieve, the seedlings grow well.
When every seed is round, every rice seedling is strong.
Better to let your stomach starve than to let seed grain run out.
There is no trick to selecting seed: large stalks and round, plump grains.
Select seed skillfully: large heads and plump grains.
Three thousand grains of millet, sixty of wheat, and eight hundred of sorghum is good.
Three thousand grains of millet, sixty of wheat; good peas have eight seeds.
Wheat is harvested for short stalks; beans are harvested for long stems.
Wheat is harvested for short stalks; beans are harvested for long pods.
Good millet does not show its head; good wheat does not show its leaves.
Select corn cobs with a gun thrust in the waist.
Discard both ends and plant the middle; the corn cob has no empty tip.
Select the tip of sorghum; take the middle of corn.
Rice with plenty of soil moisture has large heads, with every grain round and plump.
A seed field is good experience: busy for a while, sweet for a year.
Keep seed for the next year, and you need not worry at sowing time.
When millet yellows, select and store seed.
If corn seed is not sun-dried, it will surely spoil over the winter. Better to have one dou of seed than one dou of gold.
Animals and Farming Seasons
Cuckoo, cuckoo, hurry and plant grain.
The turtledove coos, coos; it is time to plant sorghum.
When frogs croak thump-thump, every household soaks seed grain.
When frogs croak, it is just right to plant early rice.
When frogs beat their drums, beans go into the soil.
When silkworms make cocoons, hurry to transplant rice seedlings.
When silkworms are old and the chess pieces turn black, prepare to cut barley.
When mosquitoes see blood, wheat sees the sickle.
When the oriole sings, the wheat is ready to cut.
When cicadas call, cut early rice. When cicadas cry, it is late to plant beans.
When cicadas call, lychees ripen.
When the oriole comes, pull garlic scapes; when the oriole leaves, dig sweet potatoes.
When swallows come, plant amaranth.
When little swallows come, hurry to sow rice seedlings; when little swallows leave, rice soup is fragrant.
When little swallows come, pull garlic scapes; when wild geese come, pull up cotton stalks.
When wild geese come, plant wheat.
When you can see your breath, plant wheat; no one needs to tell you.
When breath fogs from the mouth, wheat goes into the ground.
Summary: Proverbs are fixed sayings widely circulated among the people, reflecting profound truths and summing up rich experience in simple, plain, concise and vivid language. They are a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation and have always been deeply loved by the people. In agricultural production, farming proverbs are usually used to guide agricultural production. Let us take a look together at this great collection of farming proverbs!
Fertilizer and Agriculture
Crops are like a flower; it all depends on fertilizer to keep house.
Manure is a farmer's treasure; crops cannot grow well without it.
There is no trick to farming; manure is the crop's treasure.
Manure is the tiger in the soil; it can add one dan and five dou.
Manure is the crop's treasure; without it, they cannot grow well.
There is no ghost in farming; it all depends on manure and water.
Manure and grass, manure and grass, are the treasure of crops.
There is no trick to farming; fill them with manure water.
For crops to be good, fertilizer must be plentiful.
Ask nothing in the farmer's field; besides rain, it is all manure.
For farm work, ask nothing; besides time, it is all manure.
Ask nothing about farming; plow deep and apply plenty of manure.
With plenty of manure in farming, millet fills basket after basket.
With much water, a river forms; with much manure, crops grow.
People grow on food; the land yields grain on manure.
People rely on food to be nourished; the land relies on manure to be strong.
People rely on food to be full; fields rely on fertilizer.
People need food to be nourished; rice needs fertilizer to grow.
People have the strength of food; the land has the strength of fertilizer.
People are nourished with longan and candied dates; the land is nourished with river mud and manure and grass.
The land depends on people to care for it; seedlings depend on manure to grow.
Birds rely on trees, fish rely on rivers; crops hope to grow well by relying on plenty of fertilizer.
Fish rely on water to live; seedlings rely on manure to grow.
Only with enough oil does the lamp shine; only with enough fertilizer do crops grow strong.
A lamp with oil gives more light; a field with manure yields more grain.
More firewood makes a higher flame; plenty of manure makes good seedlings.
Things with long mouths need food, things with long roots need fertilizer.
Oil is food and salt is strength; crops depend entirely on effort and manure.
Grain grows from the soil; only fertile soil brings a good harvest.
Manure for millet is better than gold; manure for sorghum is better than pearls.
Spread manure all over the field, and grain will fill the bins.
If people do not cheat the soil, the soil will not cheat their bellies.
Old farmers should not be stubborn: every kind of manure gives a different result.
A thousand loads of manure go into the field; ten thousand loads of grain come into the barn.
One part fertilizer, one part grain; ten parts fertilizer, grain fills the barn.
With a mountain of manure, you need not worry about a plain of rice.
Plenty of fertilizer in spring, plenty of grain in autumn.
Dense manure piles in spring, grain spread across the ground after autumn.
Apply a thousand loads of fertilizer in spring, harvest ten thousand loads of grain in autumn.
Compare manure piles in winter, compare grain piles the next year.
Manure this year, grain next year.
Clever planting is not as good as applying plenty of manure.
Good plowing and clever planting are not as good as a lazy man applying manure.
Too much fertilizer harms the crops; too much firewood smothers the fire.
Spoiling produces a pampered child; over-fertilizing produces blighted rice.
Lack of fertilizer makes plants yellow; too much fertilizer makes them fall over.
Do not sow on bare ground; do not plant rice in clear water.
Without fertilizer, farming is hard; without grain, marching troops is hard.
Farming without manure is like muddling along blindly.
Farming without manure wastes a whole year's effort.
Even good fields grow poor crops if they go a year without manure.
Fertile fields grow rice; lean fields grow weeds.
Without fertilizer, the rice will not grow big.
Millet without manure has small heads; broomcorn millet without manure is just a handful of grass.
If millet and broomcorn millet get no manure, it is useless to curse heaven.
Without firewood under the pot, cooking is hard; without manure in the field, raising yields is hard.
With no rice in the jar, rising early is useless; with no manure in the field, planting rice is useless.
People go hungry without food; the land yields less grain without manure.
A lamp without oil does not shine; rice without fertilizer does not grow.
A person yellow in the face is sick; a seedling yellow in color lacks manure.
Farming without manure is like a blind man without a stick.
To get a good harvest, dredge mud, gather residue, and cut lake grass.
Fertilizer is everywhere; the only fear is not lifting a hand.
Green grass rotted into manure grows stronger and stronger.
To harvest more grain, collect fertilizer regularly.
Collecting fertilizer is like collecting grain: more fertilizer, grain fills the barn.
Grass without mud does not rot; mud without grass is not fertile.
Winter grass fertilizes the field; spring grass fertilizes the crops.
Pond mud, mud beans, and red clover are the three treasures of the farming household.
Pig manure and red clover are the two treasures of the farming household.
With three cuttings of clover, there is no worry about fertilizer.
Gold cannot buy rain-soaked manure.
Apply manure but do not water, and the crops pout.
Where there is water, there is fertilizer; without water, fertilizer has no strength.
River mud as a base, pig manure to moisten the roots.
Ash manure as a base, liquid manure dropped into the planting holes.
Apply manure in layers, and grain fills the bins.
Winter manure fertilizes the field; spring manure fertilizes the seedlings.
Do not apply much manure; just pour it on the plants.
Money cannot buy manure applied right at the seedlings.
People fear being thin in the womb; seedlings fear roots that are not well fertilized.
Spreading manure over a wide area is not as good as touching the rice roots with a little.
Broadcasting fertilizer over a wide area is not as good as spot application and money.
When manure strength is concentrated, its power is boundless.
To improve the soil, apply plenty of base fertilizer.
Broadcast manure nourishes the soil; raked manure gives immediate benefit.
Manure that does not stink is not strong; crops that are not dark green are not thriving.
When manure goes into the soil, one mu equals two.
When manure is well rotted, the crops are well fed.
Water and fertilizer must be applied at the right month; compost must heat up.
Raw manure, no hope; rotted manure, grain fills the barn.
People dread raw growth; vegetables dread raw manure.
Cold manure for fruit trees, hot manure for vegetables; raw manure on the field harms the roots.
Chicken manure has high fertilizer value, but if not composted it burns and kills seedlings.
Sheep manure enriches that year; pig manure strengthens year after year.
One season of fertilizing mud gives two seasons of strength.
Pig manure enriches, sheep manure strengthens, and cow and horse manure follows along.
When pond mud goes onto the field, it works for two or three years.
Fertilizers take effect at different speeds; use enough in layers.
Cow manure is cool, horse manure is hot, sheep manure is good for any field.
Apply manure where the strength is needed; hoe to the end of the field.
Mix various fertilizers together; do not pile them on at random.
Without enough base fertilizer, seedlings do not grow; without enough top dressing, seedlings do not thrive.
Base fertilizer is gold, top dressing is silver; more fertilizer is not as good as applying it skillfully.
If you want thriving crops, apply manure at the right time.
Apply manure reasonably, and grain fills the bins.
There is no trick to farming; just match the fertilizers well.
If you want thriving crops, apply manure reasonably.
Fertilizer is the treasure of crops; apply enough and apply skillfully.
For good crops, apply fertilizer skillfully.
The Yangtze River water never runs dry; farmyard manure never runs out.
Sea water cannot be scooped dry; fertilizer sources cannot be dug out.
Spread three layers of straw on the rice field, and it is better than a bowl of lard.
The earlier the azolla is turned in, the better the early rice.
Returning rice straw to the field makes one year equal two.
Cut rice high and till the field deep, add fertilizer, and harvest for three years.
Top dressing before rain, and it grows a fist-length overnight.
Rice needs river mud; wheat needs manure.
Hemp cake for beans, bean cake for flowers, stove ash and field ash for sweet potatoes.
Cake fertilizer for wheat, sheep manure for millet, night soil for thick-grown sorghum.
Donkey manure for millet, sheep manure for wheat, night soil for corn, kang soil for yams.
Bone ash for cotton, dog manure for vegetable melons.
Wheat needs fertilizer at sprouting; vegetables need it at flowering.
Give corn a handful of manure, and it grows stronger and stronger.
Fertilizer applied early makes millet grow well.
Base manure for wheat, seedling manure for millet.
Spread manure for wheat, drill manure for millet.
Wheat needs richness from the start; with little manure it cannot be relied on.
Wheat rolled in ash gives a reliable harvest.
Three top dressings are not as good as one base application; after the year is not as good as within the year.
After the year is not as good as within the year; within the year is not as good as burying base fertilizer.
Applying a cupful to wheat before the New Year beats applying a load after the New Year.
For good chives, just look in the ash.
Ash is good for potatoes: larger tubers and higher quality.
Broad beans need no manure; they only need to rest in ash.
A handful of ash for broad beans, and pods pile up in heaps.
Making tiles depends on the clay blank; growing sweet potatoes depends on ash.
There is no trick to growing hemp: apply liquid manure often and hoe weeds more.
There is no trick to growing hemp: just let it eat its fill in winter.
When clover has bloomed two rounds, it is just right to plow and harrow the field.
When clover is composted for clover, the fertilizer has arrived.