What does it mean to go from fright to first frost?

Twenty-four solar terms correspond to different changes in time and weather, and also to different changes in agriculture. For farmers, the impact of the arrival of each semester is very important. Therefore, it is necessary to keep abreast of the changes in agriculture from the shock of the first frost to the solar terms.

The significance of moving from dormancy to first frost

This sentence means from spring to winter. After beginning of spring, the temperature warmed up, and the spring thunder suddenly moved, waking up the animals that were dormant and hibernating in the soil. The time is around March 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The first frost weather is getting colder and the first frost appears, which means the last solar term in autumn and the beginning of winter. At this time of the Gregorian calendar 65438+1October 23rd every year, the weather will get colder gradually, and even the temperature in some parts of China has entered winter.

Agricultural activities during the first frost

When the first first frost solar term came, the autumn harvest had been completed in most parts of northern China. Even cold-resistant onions can't grow any longer, because "the first frost can't support onions, and the longer they grow, the more empty they are." In the south, it is the peak season of "Sanqiu". Only single-season hybrid rice and late rice are harvested, and early-season wheat and early-season rape are planted. Picking cotton, pulling cotton stalks, ploughing and soil preparation. "The straw is pulled all over the floor, and there will be fewer insect pests and diseases in the future." Take back the straw and stubble in time after harvest, because there are many wintering eggs and germs hidden there. The Chinese cabbage in North China is about to be harvested, so it is necessary to strengthen the post-management and prepare for grain storage in winter.

The custom of first frost

When the solar term comes to the first frost, there are various customs, such as eating radishes, eating persimmons, climbing mountains and looking far away, drinking chrysanthemums, sending taro ghosts and sweeping graves, etc., because the busy farming has ended by this time, and people have enough time to welcome the arrival of the first frost. After the first frost is our traditional festival, the Double Ninth Festival. The difference between the two festivals is only one week, which leads to some overlap between the custom of solar terms and the Double Ninth Festival.