Why is it said that when it rains on the solstice in winter, it will be fine in the New Year, and when it rains on the solstice in winter, it will rain in the New Year?

This is a weather proverb obtained through repeated observation and practice, which cannot be said to be unscientific.

Many places in China have similar agricultural proverbs, such as "the winter solstice is sunny, and the Spring Festival (Anhui) is rainy and snowy", "the winter solstice is dirty year (Jiangxi)", "the winter solstice is sunny, and the first month is rainy (Jiangxi)" and "the winter solstice (Anhui, Shandong and Sichuan) is sunny without rain" and so on. These are the wisdom and experience summed up by the ancients through long-term observation and the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors.

Before mercury barometer was invented, it was extremely difficult to collect any weather forecast data. Although it can provide a tool to predict humidity changes like weather bars, the most reliable way to predict the weather is human experience.

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Characteristics of weather proverbs

1, these proverbs are the crystallization of thousands of years of agricultural production experience, so many of them can coincide with modern meteorological theory. However, due to the limitation of production conditions and knowledge level at that time, most of these proverbs are an experience of knowing what they know but not knowing why, which cannot rise to the level of scientific theory.

Because these proverbs are the products of agricultural society, there are great local restrictions. A proverb is very useful in the north, but in the south, people who are proud of things have a narrow vision and limited experience, so they cannot observe and analyze problems from a comprehensive relationship.

3. It also includes the far-fetched attachment of feudal superstition and idealism, but if we can study it with historical materialism and dialectical materialism, it is not difficult for us to choose the best from the rough and discover the wisdom of our ancestors.

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