Proverbs, maxims, and sayings about agriculture

Examples of Farmer Proverbs

If you don’t sow in spring, there will be no harvest in autumn.

Don’t rain at the beginning of summer, hang the plow upside down.

It was sunny during the Dragon Boat Festival in May, and rotten rice scraped the fields.

There is no green rice in the cold dew, and it grows old together with the frost.

Only when there is water can there be grain. If there is no water, we will cry.

The reservoir is a treasure, preventing both drought and flooding.

The water in rice fields is mostly syrup, and the water in wheat fields is mostly arsenic.

People rely on food to support themselves, and rice relies on fattening to grow.

Rice grows in fat fields, and grass grows in thin fields.

The fat of soil grows grain, and the fat of pigs grows meat.

All things grow in the soil, and they all rely on hard work.

As long as you work hard, gold will come out of the soil.

Good rice will grow from good seeds, and barnyard grass will grow from bad seeds.

If you do not select seeds for three years, increasing production will fail.

A good son needs a good mother, and farming needs good seedlings.

It is not easy to mix crops randomly, and you will suffer losses if you mix them randomly.

Before and after Qingming, plant melons and beans.

Mai Xiu is cold, looking at the cow's nest due to the cold.

The Qingming Festival cuts off the snow, and the Grain Rain cuts off the frost.

The peach blossoms fall in the dust, and the wheat is beaten in the mud; the peach blossoms fall in the mud, and the wheat is beaten in the dust.

When the snow does not close in winter, people who work in the fields have food to eat; when the snow does not close in spring, it cuts off people's intestines.

The sunrise is carmine red, there is wind even if there is no rain.

The sky in the northwest is red when the sun sets, and it is either raining or windy.

The sunrise is as bright as a cat’s eyes, and it won’t be too late if it rains.

When the sun rises white in the east, there will be wind.

The moon is wearing a raincoat and it is going to rain.

There are no stars in the middle of the night, and heavy rain is coming.

To know whether it will be hot or not tomorrow depends on whether the night stars are dense or not.

Dark clouds meet the sun, and the rain becomes thick in the middle of the night.

The sun sets in the Dark Cloud Cave, and my back is sore from the sun in the morning.

There are carp spots in the sky. There is no need to turn over the grain for drying tomorrow.

There are clouds in the sky and rain on the ground.

Cotton clouds are like rain, and vat clouds can kill people in the sun.

The southeast wind brings dry pine trees; the northeast wind brings rain to the ancestors.

The east wind is blowing sharply, and the rain is thick in the middle of the night.

The west wind brakes the south foot, and the mud head is not whitened by the sun.

At the beginning of summer, the wind blows from the southeast, and the weather is good for a few days and nights.

Dry winds arise during the Slight Heat, and the weather is good day and night.

The south wind brings heavy rain in May, and the south wind in June makes the sea dry.

When the rainbow is high and the sun is low, tomorrow will be toward the coir raincoat; when the rainbow is low and the sun is high, tomorrow the skin will be scorched by the sun.

The sun shines in the east and the rain falls in the west.

Thunder strikes the Spring Festival, and the rain does not stop. After thunder strikes and awakens the insects, it is good to plant beans in the lowlands.

The fire door opens in Hosi (lightning) in the south, and rain comes in Hosi in the north.

Eastern Huohuo (lightning), Xihuohuo, the Ming Dynasty still did divination.

There is a thunder in Xiaoshu, and the yellow plums turn upside down.

When the fog clears in the morning, it will be a sunny day; if the fog does not clear in the morning, it will be a rainy day.

The sun in the fog breaks the stones.

The dew is lost in June, and it will rain until the dew turns white.

The mist and dew in the three mornings bring out the west wind. If there is no west wind, the rain will not be empty.

It rains in the morning and stops after dinner. It rains after dinner but never clears up.

Don’t let the twists fall heavily before the rain (light rain), and don’t stop the twists falling after the rain.

When it falls (it rains), a bubble makes it easier to run; when it falls, it becomes a nail, and it stops falling.

If a snake crosses the path, heavy rain will come; if a snake climbs a tree, there will be heavy rain.

Chickens crow in the wind, ducks crow in the rain, and ants block the road and make it rain.

Dragonflies swarmed around the sky, but it was rainy for three days.

If there is moss on the bottom of the river, it means there will be showers; if there is no smoke from the chimney, it means it will be rainy.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month and the eighth day of the second lunar month, cats and dogs are all freezing. (The cold wave is coming)

The south wind blows for two and a half days in August, turns on the same day in September, and turns once in October.

When there is rain during the Qingming Festival, the yellow plum blossoms grow, but when there is no rain during the Qingming Festival, there are fewer yellow plum blossoms.

It rained on the Dragon Boat Festival and I could survive it, but on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, it rained and the tiles fell off.

It is foggy during the summer solstice, so you have to feel your way when going out. (Rainy)

There are no stars on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and it is rainy until the Qingming Festival.

The rain hits the heads of yellow plums, and there is no sun for forty-five days. The rain hits the feet of yellow plums, and the feet of yellow oxen are cut off by traffic and water.

Autumn comes before autumn, and the wild cattle are trampled. (Drought requires water pumping)

It rains until Qingming Festival and dry up until Summer Solstice.

Qingming is early and Xiaoman is late. Grain Rain is the right time to plant cotton.

The soil from the tomb was scraped off during the Qingming Festival, and it was dripping and lagging for forty-five years.

It will be sunny during the Qingming Festival, but it will be rainy during the Grain Rain. There was no rain during Grain Rain, but we cried for rain later.

When the Qingming Festival is clear, the six animals thrive; when the Qingming Festival rains, all fruits are damaged.

Rain in Grain Rain indicates more rain, but no rain in Grain Rain comes late.

The beginning of summer is not going to fall, just mulberry and old wheat.

The east wind arrives at the beginning of summer and the wheat becomes waterlogged.

From the beginning of summer to Xiaoman, it’s never too late to plant anything.

At the beginning of summer, there was a gust of wind and all the wheat was gone.

Before and after Xiaoman, he planted melons and beans.

Little Man is warm and warm, hoeing wheat and other miscellaneous grains.

After ten days of planting, if you don’t plant for ten days, it will be in vain.

If you don’t sow the seeds, you will end up in vain.

Earn wheat appears on the scene, and autumn plowing follows closely.

The north wind blows in the field of awns, and the drought cuts off the roots of green seedlings.

On the summer solstice there is no rain and three days of heat. During the summer heat, it is rare to have ten days of overcast weather.

There is no rain in the summer solstice, and there is no rice in the store.

The summer solstice will not be too hot, and the winter solstice will not be too cold.

The summer solstice is windy and hot, the Double Ninth Festival is rainless and the winter is sunny.

As the summer solstice enters Fulitian, plowing the fields is like watering a garden.

On the summer solstice, the east wind blows and the water comes in half a month.

You won’t plant potatoes in Xiaoshu, and you won’t plant beans in Lifu.

The wind does not move during the small summer heat, and the frost comes late.

From the Great Heat to the Beginning of Autumn, manure accumulates in the fields.

There is no rain in the beginning of autumn, and little rain in autumn; there is no rain in the white dew, and there is no frost in a hundred days.

At the beginning of autumn, the summer clouds clear the grass, and the white dew and autumn equinox are cutting the fields.

There is rain at the beginning of autumn, but there is no rain at the beginning of autumn, and half of the autumn is harvested.

The beginning of autumn is drenched with rain, and the harvest will be good next year.

The mountains are planted in the summer heat, the plains are planted in the white dew, the trees are planted outside the gate in the autumn equinox, and the river bends are planted in the cold dew.

Drought in the first autumn, it will be reduced by half, and it will rain in the summer, which is as valuable as gold.

The weather is clear on the white dew, and the millet is like silver.

The white dew comes early and the cold dew comes late. The autumn equinox is the right time to plant wheat.

The autumnal equinox does not cut it, the frost beats the wind.

Millet cannot be harvested during the autumnal equinox, and millet cannot be raised during the cold dew.

The grain is rising and the cotton is piled up in the mountains, and the cold dew does not forget to turn over the ground.

If you don’t go out in the morning glow, the sunset will travel thousands of miles.

Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest.

In winter, I will wear a three-layer wheat quilt, and next year I will sleep with a steamed bun on my pillow.