How important was beginning of winter in ancient China? What are the specific taboos?

1, beginning of winter, like other solar terms in the 24 solar terms, reflects the climate change and corresponding phenology, which has practical guiding significance for agricultural production. "Li Si", that is, the beginning of spring, the long summer, the beginning of autumn and the beginning of winter, is particularly important because it shows different seasons.

2. Taboo of beginning of winter: People who have a heart of kidney is not good, the heart and five elements belong to fire, and the kidney and five elements belong to water. In the natural winter, friends with bad heart or kidney must be more careful and pay attention to health. Old friends should pay attention to adding clothes to keep warm, try to avoid exercise and going out when the wind is strong, and strengthen self-protection.

Beginning of winter stands for the beginning of winter.

4. On the 7th or 8th day of the Gregorian calendar (165438+1October) every year, when the sun reaches 225 degrees of the yellow longitude, it is beginning of winter and beginning of winter is the first solar term in winter. "Li" means "establishment and beginning". The ancients interpreted the word "winter" as: "Winter is the end, and everything is harvested." This means that autumn is different

All the crops have been collected and put into storage, and the animals have hidden and hibernated. Therefore, beginning of winter not only represents the arrival of winter, but also means collecting everything and avoiding the cold. In ancient China, beginning of winter was divided into three stages: "The first stage was that water began to freeze, the second stage was that the ground began to freeze, and the third stage was that water entered the flood." This means that the water in this solar term has begun to freeze; The land also began to freeze; "Pheasant" in "Pheasant Into the Water is Worm" refers to big birds like Pheasant, and "Pheasant" is a giant clam.

6. China is a vast country. Except for the coastal areas of South China where there is no winter all the year round and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau where there is no summer in long winter, the winters do not start at the same time. According to the standard of dividing the four seasons by climatology, the average temperature in the second half of the year is below 10℃ for five consecutive days, so the statement that "beginning of winter is beginning of winter" basically conforms to the climate law in Huanghuai area.