Jingzhe
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Jingzhe. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Jingzhe, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Jingzhe in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Jingzhe you have here. The definition of the word Jingzhe will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofJingzhe, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: Jīngzhé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 惊蛰 (Jīngzhé), from 惊 (jīng, “rouse, startle, stir”) + 蛰 (zhé, “hibernate”), literally “rouse from hibernation”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jingzhe
- The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar term[1] — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March.
- 1998, Robert B. Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China, →ISBN, page 111:
- 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].”
- 2004, Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, →ISBN, page 298:
- 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
- ^ Jīngzhé listed on page 308 of the ABC Chinese–English Dictionary: Alphabetically Based Computerized, by John DeFrancis (1999; The University of Hawaiʻi Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13))