"Is it cold for the New Year? After watching the winter solstice, the year will be fixed. " Is it cold this year? Did the ancients predict accurately?

When the ancients lived, there was no weather forecast. How do they know the weather? How do they predict the climate change in the future?

The diligence and wisdom of our ancestors far exceeded our imagination. After thousands of years of careful observation and recording, the "24 solar terms" and countless "proverbs" were born.

It is these real life records that sum up the subtle changes in nature and serve as the basis for farming arrangements.

In our eyes, the 24 solar terms may be just a specific festival in the calendar, which is used to express the change of natural rhythm and establish "December architecture".

But for ancestors, this is the crystallization of life wisdom and the natural law on which to live.

"Four seasons and one year old", twelve months are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter. They have three months each month and two solar terms each month, and each solar term has its own unique meaning.

These "twenty-four solar terms" accurately reflect the change of natural rhythm and play an extremely important role in people's daily life.

It is not only a seasonal system that guides agricultural production, but also a folk system that contains rich folk customs.

"Winter Solstice Day" is the 22nd solar term in the "24 solar terms". It is one of the four seasons and eight festivals, and is regarded as the Great Winter Festival. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as a year".

This year's "winter solstice" is on February 22, 65438 in the solar calendar, which is 1 1 29th in the lunar calendar.

This day is very special. The sun will shine directly on the tropic of Capricorn, which is the most inclined to the northern hemisphere, and the sun's altitude angle is the smallest. In all parts of the northern hemisphere, the days are the shortest and the nights are the longest.

The characteristics of "winter solstice" are not limited to this. For example, as the saying goes, "The Chinese New Year is cold, and the year will be decided after seeing the solstice of winter", the implication is that we can know whether the Chinese New Year will be cold this year through the weather from winter to morning, and we can also use this to predict the year of next year.

If you want to know the answer, you can actually look for it in other proverbs left by your ancestors.

For example, "the winter solstice is warm, the Spring Festival is cold, the winter solstice is cold, and the Spring Festival is warm". What the ancestors want to express is very accurate: if the solstice in winter is warm, the New Year will be very cold; On the contrary, if the winter solstice is cold, it will become warm during the Spring Festival, which is completely opposite.

For another example, as the saying goes: "You can't see the sky on the solstice in winter, and you should add cotton-padded clothes for the New Year."

"You can't see the sky" means that the visibility on cloudy days from winter solstice is very low. This weather shows that it is cold during the Spring Festival, because you need to bring more clothes to ensure that it will not freeze.

There are many proverbs like this, which express similar meanings, but each place is different.

China has a vast territory and a large population. Different regions have different cultural customs and climate changes, but surprisingly, our ancestors can accurately predict the weather changes with their wisdom.

As for how to judge the year of the coming year by the weather from winter solstice to Sunday, there is actually a certain basis.

Because the arrival of the winter solstice means that the particularly cold period of the year has arrived.

According to the folk method of calculating the date of spring flowers in cold weather in China, that is, "counting nine", it is generally coldest on March 9 and April 9.

When you count to nine "nine days" (998 1 day), spring will be deep and warm, and everything will be full of vitality. It's time for spring ploughing.

In terms of time, this year's "winter solstice" happens to be between "March 9 and April 9". In this coldest period, it is good news for crops.

The ancients said that "snow is a good omen for a good year". It is very cold during the Chinese New Year, which will freeze the eggs of pests in crops. When flowers bloom in spring, crops can grow healthily. With a good foundation ahead, it will naturally bring farmers a bumper harvest in the harvest season, which means a good year.

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"It's cold in the New Year, but it's good to watch the solstice in winter" has some truth.

These methods of predicting climate change in the future according to the 24 solar terms can be said to be tried and tested.

However, there is one problem that cannot be ignored. With the continuous development of science and technology, the industrial level has reached a new height, which not only brings convenience to people's lives, but also destroys the environment on which we live. Global warming is a typical example.

Therefore, the accuracy of the proverbs left by our ancestors will be greatly reduced.

Whether the Chinese New Year is cold or not, and what the next year will be like depends on the weather forecast.

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