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What are the solar terms in winter?

① beginning of winter: 165438+ early October. Winter means the end, and it also means harvesting crops after harvest. There is a saying that radish and onion are "beginning of winter" in production, which means that these crops should be harvested and stored at this time. Astronomically speaking, from now on, winter will begin, and people will live in a relatively long cold season.

② Light snow:165438+1late October. At this time, the temperature continued to drop and it began to snow, but it was not very heavy. In the north of China, it's time for ponds and dams to freeze.

When the cold wind blows, people feel that "the sky is crisp and the cold current is urgent" and "it is already hundreds of feet of ice on the cliff". At this time, the field is only for the collection and storage of Chinese cabbage. Farmland work basically stopped. Due to the continuous snowfall, there is a saying in the farmer's proverb that "there is a light snow all over the sky, and the next year will be fruitful".

③ Heavy snow: 12 at the beginning of the year. 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.