Jingzhe

noun /ʧ̝iŋˈʧ̙ʌ/

The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar term<ref name="ABC-def">[ Jīngzhé listed on page 308] of the ABC Chinese–English Dictionary: Alphabetically Based Computerized, by John DeFrancis (1999; The <span class="plainlinks">[ University of Hawaiʻi Press]</span>; ISBN 0824821548 (10), ISBN 978-0824821548 (13))</ref> — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March.

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].”