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What does heavy snow mean in the twenty-four solar terms?

Heavy snow: the number of days and amount of snowfall is more than that of light snow, and there is snow on the ground gradually. There is nothing special about this solar term and custom. This solar term means that the temperature will continue to drop and heavy snow will come at any time, which will cause snow on the ground. Big means heavy snowfall. At this time, the earth froze and the pond froze. There is often a "heavy snow" that does not close the land, but it is said to be from the 3rd to the 5th. Once the clouds are overcast, people will feel that in the severe winter, there will be magnificent pictures of "snow over winter clouds in Bai Yunfei, flowers falling in bloom" and "there are no birds in the mountains, no footprints in thousands of paths, and the old man is fishing for cold snow" at any time. Once it snows, the scenery in the north is covered with silver everywhere. When you see the snow-covered pine and cypress, you will think of Marshal Chen Yi's poem "The snow presses the pine and cypress, and the pine and cypress are tall and straight", and the integrity of being a man suddenly surges in your chest.