Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Almanac inquiry - Which direction is due north?

Which direction is due north?

True North refers to the cities in the north of China. The cities due north of North China are Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Tianjin and Inner Mongolia, and Hebei has Qinhuangdao, Handan, Baoding, Chengde, Tangshan, Langfang and Cangzhou.

Shanxi Province includes Jinzhong City, Taiyuan City, Jincheng City, Yuncheng City and other prefecture-level cities in Shanxi Province. All the cities in Inner Mongolia and Tianjin are due north.

Characteristics of northern climate

Winter is cold and dry, and summer is hot and rainy.

The northern region is dominated by temperate monsoon climate, in which the northern Daxinganling is cold temperate, the northern Great Wall is moderate temperate, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are warm temperate. The frost-free period is 4-8 months, and the heat conditions between north and south are quite different. The annual precipitation is 400-800 mm, mainly concentrated in July-August, most of which belong to semi-humid and semi-arid areas, and the eastern and northern mountainous areas of Northeast China are humid areas.

It is warm and rainy in summer, short in northeast China, cold and dry in winter, long and cold and snowy in northeast China. Mohe is the "cold pole" of China. Main disastrous weather: cold wave in winter, low temperature in summer and early frost in autumn in Northeast China, drought and sandstorm in spring and rainstorm in summer in North China.