What do the heavy snow and light snow on the calendar mean?

The heavy snow and light snow on the calendar represent two of the 24 solar terms. Like the light snow solar term, the heavy snow solar term is a solar term reflecting the changing trend of temperature and precipitation, and it is also a reflection of ancient farming culture for festivals.

Light snow is the 20th solar term among the 24 solar terms and the 2nd solar term in winter. The time is165438+1October 22nd or1October 23rd in the Gregorian calendar every year. The arrival of the light snow solar term means that the weather will get colder and colder and the precipitation will gradually increase.

Heavy snow is the second1solar term among the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in winter. The delivery time is from February 6 to 8, 65438 in Gregorian calendar every year. The solar term of heavy snow is the beginning of the second month of the dry calendar, marking the official start of the mid-winter season. Heavy snow is a solar term reflecting climate characteristics. Heavy snow solar terms are characterized by a significant drop in temperature and an increase in precipitation.

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First, the light snow solar terms folk custom

1, bacon

There is a folk custom of "curing in winter and storing it for the winter". After the light snow, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which was a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon, and stored the surplus meat in the traditional way until the Spring Festival.

Step 2 eat Baba

In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. Ciba is a kind of steamed and mashed glutinous rice, which is a popular food in some areas of southern China. In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in the south of China, which was originally used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying that "October, Baba" refers to sacrificial events.

3. Dried fish meal

During the light snow, fishermen in the south-central coastal area of Taiwan Province Province will start drying dried fish and storing dry food. The mullet group will come to the Taiwan Province Strait around the light snow, with swordfish and sand fish. Taiwan Province Province proverb: October beans are too fat to see the head, which means that in the cloth bag area of Chiayi County, you can catch "bean fish" in October of the lunar calendar.

Second, twenty-four solar term song

Spring rains shake the spring and clear the valley, and summer is full of mountains and summers.

Autumn dew, autumn frost, little snow in winter and cold in winter.

The two festivals are the same every month, with a difference of one or two days at most.

The first half of the year is June 2 1 day, and the second half is August 23.