What is the third phase of Xiaoman solar terms?

The third phase of Xiaoman solar term is: bitter vegetables are obvious, weeds are withered, and wheat is autumn. Bitter vegetables show means that bitter vegetables are abundant at this time. As the temperature is getting higher and higher, more bitter vegetables can reduce the heat, so there is a saying of "bitter vegetable show". The death of weeds means that some shade-loving plants begin to wither slowly in the sun. The autumn solstice of wheat refers to the last stage of Xiaoman, when crops such as wheat begin to mature.

Xiaoman, one of the "twenty-four solar terms", is the second solar term in summer. Xiaoman, battle nail, the sun reaches 60 degrees of the yellow meridian and is celebrated every year on May 20-22 of the Gregorian calendar. A small solar term means entering the rainy season of heavy precipitation, and the rain begins to increase, and there will often be a continuous large-scale heavy precipitation.

Xiaoman, like rain, Grain Rain, light snow and heavy snow, are solar terms that directly reflect precipitation. Xiaoman reflects the climate characteristics of heavy rainfall: "Xiaoman Xiaoman, the rivers are getting full". Another explanation is that the seeds of summer sowing crops such as wheat in the north began to fill, but they were only small and not completely full.

During the Xiaoman solar term, there is usually a lot of rainfall in southern China. Due to the active warm and humid airflow in the south, it meets the cold air from north to south in South China. At this time, there will often be sustained and large-scale heavy precipitation in South China, which will cause heavy rain or torrential rain, just like the folk saying that "the river is getting more and more full".