The meaning of rain in winter

The rain in early winter indicates that precipitation will increase and the soil will not be irrigated, but the winter is wet and cold.

As the saying goes, it is sunny in early winter and rainy in early winter. If it rains during the solar term in beginning of winter, it means that there is more rain all winter, and it may often rain all winter. On the contrary, if the weather is sunny in early winter, it means that there is less rainy weather in the whole winter, and most of them are sunny.

After beginning of winter, the sunshine time will continue to shorten, and the height of the sun will continue to decrease at noon. Because there is still some energy in the heat stored on the surface, it is generally not very cold in early winter. As time goes by, cold air activities become more and more frequent, and the downward trend of temperature accelerates.

Related customs

In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice at the beginning of a winter night. According to legend, there was a man named Gong. His son died on the winter solstice. After his death, he became the ghost of an epidemic, killing people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people eat red bean rice from the solstice in winter to resist the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

It is a traditional Shaoxing wine-making custom to start brewing yellow wine in beginning of winter that day. The low water cooling temperature in winter can effectively inhibit the growth of miscellaneous bacteria and make the wine form a good flavor in the process of low temperature and long-term fermentation. This is the most suitable season for wine fermentation. Therefore, Shaoxing people call the most suitable time for brewing yellow wine from the beginning of winter to the beginning of spring the following year as winter brewing, praying for well-being.