Jingzhe describes the sound of thunder that awakens small animals, heralding the coming of spring.

Agricultural proverbs about the Jingzhe: 1. The Jingzhe transforms the earth, so don’t relax when hoeing wheat.

2. After the sting, it is warm and the old horn of the toad sings folk songs.

3. When spring thunder rings, farmers turn from idle to busy.

4. Plant mulberries in one year and raise silkworms in many years.

5. Before thunder struck and stung, for forty-nine days there was no thunder.

6. Not raking the ground for Jingzhe is like steaming steamed buns that have lost their breath.

7. If the thunder breaks out before the awakening of hibernation, there will be forty-five cloudy days.

8. Cold stings, warm equinoxes.

9. There are piles of thunder wheat in February.

10. Jingzhe does not rake the ground, as if the steamer has run out of steam.