What is the next sentence of "the autumn equinox is early and the first frost is late"?

Now is the time for cold dew to plant wheat.

The autumnal equinox is early and the first frost is late, which is the time for cold dew to plant wheat. This is an agricultural proverb circulating in the south of North China, and it is the experience summarized by farmers in their long-term production practice.

Autumnal equinox is a busy solar term. Some autumn crops have been harvested at this time, and some will soon mature, so farmers are very busy at the autumn equinox. As the old saying goes, Xia Yun is busy for half a month, autumn is busy for forty days, autumn is busy, and embroidered mother wants to go out of the boudoir. It can be seen that the farmers are very busy, and even the embroidered mother who stays at home at ordinary times has to go out to help. In fact, during the autumnal equinox and solar terms, we should not only be busy with autumn harvest, but also start sowing in autumn, and many crops will begin to prepare for sowing.

There is a saying in the countryside that the autumnal equinox is early and the first frost is late, which is the time to plant wheat in the cold dew. However, agricultural proverbs, like proverbs, have certain regional characteristics, which are not applicable in every part of China. This proverb is mainly in the south of North China, that is, Henan, Anhui and other areas south of the Yellow River Basin. Due to the vast territory of China, different climatic conditions and different sowing time of wheat in different places, proverbs and agricultural proverbs circulating in different places are also different. But these are the summary of the long-term experience of the ancients, and then passed down from generation to generation, with relatively high accuracy.

In Hebei, Shaanxi and other areas north of the Yellow River Basin, it is commonly known that the white dew is early and the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is the time to plant wheat. It means that it is still a little early to sow wheat in the Millennium solar terms, and it is a little late to sow wheat in the cold dew solar terms. The best sowing time is in the autumnal equinox solar terms.

In fact, even in the same area, the planting time of wheat is different in different geographical environments, such as planting mountains in autumn equinox, planting plains in cold dew, and planting floodplains in the face of frost. It means that in mountainous areas, because it is cold early, sowing should be earlier. Wheat is usually planted in the autumn equinox. It's cold late in Pingchuan area, so it's ok to plant in cold dew and solar terms. In some flood areas, it is not too late to postpone planting until the first frost.

According to the experience of the ancients, wheat should be planted sooner rather than later. As the saying goes, early grain and late wheat are harmful for ten years, and wheat is planted early and harvested for ten years. Of course, it depends on the local climate and weather. Moreover, when sowing winter wheat, we should master the depth. As the saying goes, two fingers are shallow, four fingers are boring and three fingers are boring. Note that the optimum depth of wheat sowing is about 3 cm. Too shallow will affect the water absorption of seeds, while too deep seeds will take a long time to resist when they are unearthed. After sowing, they should be moderately suppressed, which is conducive to the emergence of seedlings.