Wheat covers three quilts in winter and sleeps with steamed bread the next year.

In winter, wheat is covered with three quilts. Next year, you can sleep with steamed bread: there will be three good snows in winter and a bumper harvest of wheat next year. It refers to whether wheat can be harvested, and winter snow is very important.

The experienced old farmer compared snow to "the quilt of wheat". The thicker the quilt in winter, the better the wheat will grow next spring, so there is a proverb: cover three quilts in winter and sleep with steamed bread the next year.

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China was an agricultural society in ancient times, and the smooth progress of agricultural production activities was a major issue related to the whole society. Therefore, in order to better guide farming, working people have created "twenty-four solar terms" and agricultural proverbs that reflect the solar cycle, so as to predict the weather after long-term accumulation according to the laws of the sun.

Not only in the past when meteorological science was underdeveloped, it was of great significance to promote agricultural high yield, but also in today's more popular scientific farming, it still has practical significance.