Jingzhe

Proper noun

Jingzhe

1. The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar term — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March.
   • 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...1998, Robert B. Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China, →ISBN, page 111
   • 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...2004, Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 298