Busy Chinese Calendar June
Friday, July 25th, 2008Now this month, June of the Chinese traditional calendar , is the hottest and busiest month for Chinese farmers. In South China countryside, which i know a little, farmers often leave home and start harvesting rice plants at 4 am when it is the coolest time of a day. Between 12pm and 3 pm, the temperature inside rice paddy can rise up to 50 Celsius Degrees after hours direct sunlight, when farmers have to stay home and rest. After 3 pm, they work again till late night.
Harvesting rice and planting new rice shoots for autume harvest, make Chinese Calendar June a hell month, because delaying harvest will cause ripe crops to rot in field, and delaying rice planting till autumn, will not secure a good harvest. That is to say, farmers have to finish planting before 7th August.
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