What happened to plants before and after the first frost and beginning of winter in solar terms?

During the first frost, plants in most parts of the north were covered with frost and stopped growing.

In the south, it is the peak season of "Sanqiu". Only single-season hybrid rice and late rice are harvested, and early-season wheat and early-season rape are planted. Picking cotton, pulling cotton stalks, ploughing and soil preparation. "The straw is pulled all over the floor, and there will be fewer insect pests and diseases in the future."

In order to keep warm, the plants in early winter have withered.

The water has been frozen in this solar term, and the land has begun to freeze. The third issue, "Pheasant is Pheasant", refers to pheasant-like big birds, and Pheasant is a big clam. After beginning of winter, big birds like pheasants were rare, but big mussels with similar lines and colors could be seen on the seashore, so the ancients thought it was a pheasant.

Traditional customs in early winter

Since ancient times, people have attached great importance to the solar terms in beginning of winter, and celebrations all over the country are also very rich. Beginning of winter, together with beginning of spring, Changxia and beginning of autumn, is a very important festival in the hearts of China people. Spring ploughing and summer sowing, autumn harvest and winter storage, and winter is also the season to enjoy a bumper harvest.

China used to be a farming society. People who have worked for a year take advantage of beginning of winter to have a rest and repay their families for their hard work over the past year. There is a proverb that "beginning of winter fills the winter and the mouth" is the best metaphor.