农事

農事

nóngshì

noun #55,397

Meanings

HSK 5

春天一到，农民就开始忙农事了。

Chūntiān yí dào, nóngmín jiù kāishǐ máng nóngshì le.

As soon as spring comes, farmers get busy with the work in the fields.

HSK 7-9

古代的历法主要是为了安排农事。

Gǔdài de lìfǎ zhǔyào shì wèile ānpái nóngshì.

Ancient calendars were made mainly to plan the farming year.

Formal and bookish. In everyday speech farm work is 农活.

culture

The 24 solar terms, 二十四节气, grew out of the farming calendar: names like 谷雨 'Grain Rain' and 芒种 'Grain in Beard' still mark when to sow and harvest.

农 nóng

事 shì