Essay on solar terms in beginning of winter

165438+1On October 7th, the sun reached the longitude of the Yellow River at 225, and the solar term was beginning of winter.

But wait, the chrysanthemums have just opened, the leaves are just yellow, the sun is still warm, the breeze is still soft, and autumn is strong. How can you stand it in winter? Winter should be regarded as "the north wind rolls the ground, flowers bloom" and "flowers bloom for a while", but at present everything is far from it.

Among the 24 solar terms, there are the so-called "four stands": beginning of spring, Changchun, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter. When I think about it carefully, it seems that every "station" is misplaced: beginning of spring doesn't see flowers, it doesn't feel hot in the long summer, and there is no autumn wind in beginning of autumn.

Why is this happening?

The farming people who depend on the weather take the change of seasons as the top priority, and our ancestors have long observed the decisive role of the position of the sun in the sky in the change of seasons. When the sun reached a fixed position in the sky, the ancients knew that a certain season was coming, so there were four solar terms: beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter. Although China's land spans dozens of latitudes from south to north and fluctuates from west to east, the climate is never uniform, but whether the climate changes or not, people know that the general trend will not change, and the change and evolution of seasons is God's established law. "Li" means to establish and start. When farmers see this, they will obey God's will and prepare all kinds of farming activities early, sowing in spring, harvesting in summer and autumn, resting in winter and waiting for the coming year.

Therefore, there is no dislocation of the four stands, and the difference in climate has long been made up by human experience. From south to north, from east to west, farming in various places has its own set of starting and ending procedures, and it never goes wrong.

In this way, year after year, a hundred years and a thousand years, generation after generation, generation after generation, adapting to the weather and working hard, our nation is endless and endless.