What's the difference between Meng Dong, Midwinter and Ji Dong?

The difference between Mengdong, Middle East and Ji Dong lies in the winter months. Winter is divided into Meng Dong, Midwinter and Ji Dong. The ancients divided winter into three parts, in which Meng Dong is 10 month, Midwinter is1/kloc-0 month, Ji Dong is 12 month, and winter lasts for three months * * 90 days, so winter is also called Nine Winter.

Meng Dong, also known as Xiaoyangchun, refers to the first month of winter every year, that is, the month of dry calendar, including beginning of winter and the light snow in the twenty-four solar terms. Meng Dong corresponds to the lunar calendar, which is October of the lunar calendar.

The winter solstice, also known as midwinter, refers to the second month of winter, that is, the second month, which includes two solar terms: heavy snow and winter solstice. Corresponding to the lunar November. The lunar year is divided into twelve months: Meng Chun, Midspring, Ji Chun, Xia Meng, Midsummer, Late Summer, Qiu Meng, Midautumn, Qiu Ji, Mengdong, Midwinter and Jidong.

Season and winter generally refer to winter. Winter is one of the four seasons. Traditionally, beginning of winter is the beginning of mid-winter in 24 solar terms. In winter, life is closed and everything enters a state of recuperation. When winter is over, everything is collected. After beginning of winter, everything began to hide.

Other brief introduction of winter.

Beginning of winter, together with beginning of spring, Changchun and beginning of autumn, is a seasonal solar term. The four seasons alternate throughout the year, and the four stands mark the rotation of the four seasons, reflecting the changing laws of phenology and climate, such as spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage. Winter, rainfall, humidity, light, temperature, etc. At the turning point, the climate began to transition from autumn to winter.

The ancients regarded October of the lunar calendar as Meng Dong, November as Midwinter, and December as Ji Dong, and called March as Three winters to refer to winter. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu wrote Five Poems to Send Xing (Part II), in which a dragon was stung for three winters and an old crane had Wan Li's heart. Such a sentence.

Winter lasts for three months * * * ninety days, so winter is also called nine winters. For example, there is a saying in Shen Yue's poem "Walking at Night and Smelling Night Cranes" in the Southern Dynasties that frost and snow fall in nine winters and six purlins fly.

Strict and meaningful, so the severe winter has become another generation of extremely cold winter. For example, in "Xia Sai Qu" written by Guan Xiu, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, the river dried up in severe winter, and he severely punished Yao for whoring.