What does each of the 24 solar terms mean?

The significance of the twenty-four solar terms:

1, beginning of spring: Standing is the beginning, and beginning of spring is beginning of spring.

2. Rain: It began to rain and gradually increased.

3. Sting: Sting means hiding. Sting refers to the sudden movement of spring thunder, which awakens the hibernating animals in the soil.

4. vernal equinox: vernal equinox means equal share. The vernal equinox means that day and night are equally divided.

5. Qingming: During the Qingming period, everything "spits out the old and absorbs the new", and the earth presents a scene of spring and Qingming.

6. Grain Rain: Rain makes a hundred valleys. With sufficient and timely rainfall, cereal crops can thrive.

7. Long summer: the beginning of summer.

8. Xiaoman: Xiaoman reflects the climatic characteristics of rainy and heavy rainfall, and Xiaoman River is full.

9. Miscanthus: "Miscanthus" is a homonym of "busy planting", which means that all crops are "busy planting".

10, summer solstice: When the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer, it is summer solstice. The hot summer is coming.

1 1, light summer heat: summer heat is hot; Slight summer heat refers to when the climate begins to get hot.

12, Great Summer: the hottest time of the year.

13, beginning of autumn: Douzhi Southwest; The solar line is 135. The beginning of autumn.

14, Chu Xia: Chu means to stop and hide. Summer is the end of hot summer.

15, Bailu: The weather turns cold and the dew turns white.

16, autumnal equinox: divided equally between day and night.

17, cold dew: dew is cold and will freeze.

18, first frost: the weather is getting colder and frosty.

19, beginning of winter: beginning of winter.

20. Xiaoxue: This means it's starting to snow.

2 1, heavy snow: the snowfall is increasing, and there may be snow on the ground.

22. Solstice of Winter: The cold winter is coming.

23, slight cold: the climate began to get cold.

24. Great Cold: The coldest time of the year.

Twenty-four solar terms are well-known calendar knowledge in China, and few people don't know it. This is a very unique calendar, which was used by ancient China people to calculate the seasonal changes. The 24 solar terms are divided into equal parts every year according to the climate of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the cold and summer seasons are changeable. Each solar term is about 15 days. Tell people to teach people to farm in order of age, so as not to miss the farming season.

Twenty-four solar terms are a knowledge system and social practice formed by China people by observing the movement of the sun for a year and understanding the changing laws of the four seasons, climate and phenology in a year. "Twenty-four solar terms" guide traditional agricultural production and daily life, and are an important part of China's traditional calendar system and related practical activities. In the field of international meteorology, this time cognition system is known as "the fifth invention of China".

The popular solar terms jingle among farmers in Northeast China;

In spring, the sun is turning, the rain is by the river, crows are crowing, the land is dry at the vernal equinox, Qingming wheat is busy, and Grain Rain is farming;

Long summer goose feathers live, birds come to the whole, awn seeds are shoveled, and cotton is not picked from summer to day. Summer is not hot, summer is three days;

Beginning of autumn is busy doing some work, moving knives and sickles in summer, and putting the Millennium cigarettes on the shelves. The autumnal equinox is not a field, and the cold dew is not cold. The first frost changed its date;

In the early winter of October, light snow freezes, heavy snow falls on the branches of the river, and there is no boat on the solstice in winter. The slight cold is near the twelfth month, and it is cold for a whole year.