The Moral and Symbolic Significance of Slight Cold

Slight cold refers to the long-term accumulation of cold air on the coldest day of the year. Slight cold means that the weather is cold but not extreme. It is the same as great cold, slight summer heat, great summer heat and summer heat, and it is a solar term indicating temperature change. The slight cold solar term is characterized by cold, but it is not extremely cold.

The slight cold symbolizes that most parts of China have entered a period of severe cold, frozen soil and frozen rivers. In addition, the cold air in the north keeps going south, and the weather is cold, so people call it "nine cold days". Although the south of China is not as cold as the north, the temperature drops obviously. The coldest time in the south is slight cold and severe cold, between rain and fright. It is dry and cold when it is a little cold, and it is wet and cold after the rain.

In ancient China, the "slight cold" was divided into three stages: "First-class Yanbei Township, second-class magpies started their nests, and third-class pheasants started their lives." The ancients believed that the geese among migratory birds migrated along the yin and yang, when the yang had moved, the geese began to migrate northward; At this time, magpies can be seen everywhere in the north, feeling the yang and starting to build nests; The word "pheasant" means singing. As April 9th approaches, pheasants can sing.