What's the significance of heavy snow solar terms? The origin of solar terms in heavy snow.

Snow solar term is a traditional festival in China, and it has certain customs and habits, so what is the emphasis on snow solar term? What is the origin of heavy snow solar terms?

Nourish health

"Tonifying in winter can kill tigers in spring". Tonifying in winter can not only enhance human immunity and promote metabolism, but also dispel cold and tonify kidney, replenish qi and tonify deficiency. Drinking mutton soup, eating radish, keeping out the cold and helping digestion, supplemented by yam and medlar, is rich in nutrition and has certain effects of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough and preventing rhinitis.

Skating activities

It was called skating in ancient times. It's very cold in the north, and the rivers are frozen. In some places, water is pumped into icebergs, which are three or four feet high and crystal clear. People wear belts and pedal shoes, stand down from the top of the mountain and reach the ground without falling. This game is called Tarting, so you can skate in heavy snow and solar terms.

Catch mullet

As the saying goes, from light snow to heavy snow, it means from the light snow season. In Taiwan Province Province, Taiwan Province Province is also a good time to catch mullet in the heavy snow season. The weather is getting colder and colder, and mullet flows back to the south along the water temperature line, and more and more mullet groups gather. Snakehead can be caught all over the western coast of Taiwan, with a very high yield, and is often treated as a delicacy to entertain guests.

bacon

"Pickled vegetables in light snow, pickled meat in heavy snow", every household is busy pickling "pickled products" as soon as the solar term of heavy snow arrives. Of course, the specific method of curing meat varies from place to place. For example, in Nanjing, star anise, cinnamon, pepper and sugar are generally put into a pot with salt and stir-fried. Stir-fried pepper and salt are thoroughly cooled, then smeared on the inside and outside of fish, meat and poultry, and kneaded repeatedly until the color of the meat turns from fresh to dark and the surface oozes liquid. Then put the meat and the remaining salt into the jar, press it with stones, put it in a cool and backlit place, and take it out after half a month.

Decorative river closure

"Snow has collected the land, and snow has collected the river". In the north, there is a natural landscape of "thousands of miles frozen, Wan Li snowing". In the south, there is also a charming picture of "snowflakes dancing and white clothes wrapped". In the solar term of heavy snow, the ice in the river is frozen, and people can skate and play as much as they like.

The origin of heavy snow solar terms

Heavy snow belongs to 2 1 of the 24 solar terms, and it is also the third solar term in winter. At this time, the sun reaches the longitude of 255 degrees, and the node time is 65438+February 6-8 in Gregorian calendar every year.

Like light snow, rain, Grain Rain and Xiaoman, heavy snow is a solar term that directly reflects precipitation. The arrival of heavy snow in solar terms means that the weather will get colder and colder and the precipitation will increase gradually; The most common ones are cooling, raining or snowing.