Meaning: In March in Ji Chun, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper points to the morning position, with seven stars in the center of the southern sky at dusk and Altair in the center of the southern sky in the morning. The God of Titus is in the East, and the heavenly stems are A and B, which means that insects are fish and sounds are horns. In the melody, the ancient sunrise (getting rid of the old and becoming new) corresponds to it, with a rank of eight, which has a sour main taste and a pungent smell. Sacrificial activities are in the portal, and the spleen should be put in the first place. At this time, the buttonwood tree bloomed, the vole became a quail-like animal, the rainbow began to appear, and the algae in the water grew out.
The son of heaven wears blue clothes, rides a blue horse, wears blue jade and has blue flags embroidered with tigers and bears. I ate wheat products and mutton, and drank the dew of Bafeng. Make a fire with flint, and the tofu will burn. The maids in the East Palace are also dressed in blue, wearing blue ornaments and playing the lute. The weapon used is a spear, and the animals raised are sheep. The son of heaven called the minister of the southeast hall. The official in charge of the ship should check whether there are any loopholes on the ship several times, and after five times, he will inform the emperor that he is ready. The son of heaven sat firmly in the boat and presented sturgeon to the ancestral temple, praying for a bumper wheat harvest. At this time, the spirit of the sun began to disperse, and all the bent flowers and trees were dug up and grew upright and unstoppable. The emperor ordered relevant officials to open granaries to help the poor, open state warehouses, take silks to vassal countries, and hire wise men. Let the officials in charge of water and soil pay attention to the coming rainy season, and the water in the lowlands will churn upward. Patrol cities all over the country in turn, survey wild land, build dams, dredge rivers, remove roadblocks and make roads smooth. This inspection should be carried out from the national capital to the border. Hunting should be prohibited, bows and arrows should be collected, tools for catching birds and animals and poison for catching wild animals should not be taken out of the city gate, so that birds and animals can breed smoothly. Officials in charge of mountain forests also prohibit cutting down mulberry trees and zheshu trees to raise silkworms. Turtledoves fly high, and Dai Sheng birds drop mulberry branches. Silkworm rearing should be prepared with silkworm racks, silkworm foils and bamboo baskets. After the fast, the queen and concubines picked mulberry leaves in the East by themselves, which reduced women's other affairs so that they could actively raise silkworms. Officials and craftsmen in charge of the five warehouses should inspect gold and iron, leather, tendons, arrows, grease and paint, and no inferior quality is allowed. Choose an auspicious day in late March, and let's play music together to celebrate spring with the people. Then bring the bull stallion and the cow mare to the pasture to mate. An exorcism operation was held in the capital, killing livestock in nine gates of the capital to get rid of the breath of dying spring. If this season's laws can be carried out on time, the rain will come every ten days.
If winter laws are implemented in Ji Chun, cold will often occur, vegetation will wither, and the country will have a big panic. If you carry out the summer law in Ji Chun, diseases will spread among the people, rain will not come in time, and the products of Shanling will not be harvested. If Ji Chun becomes the law of season and autumn, there will be dark clouds, a lot of rain will come soon, and war will happen. In March, officials will manage the household registration of villagers and plant plum trees according to this season.