Meaning of the 24 Solar Terms Song

Spring rains startle spring and clear the valley days, summer is full of mango and summer heat is connected.

Autumn dew in the fall, cold and frosty, winter snow and snow winter small cold.

The two sections of the month do not change, but differ by one or two days at most.

The first half of the year comes to six twenty-one, and the second half is eight twenty-three.

The first four phrases are a song composed of one character from each festival in order, and the full name is: spring, rain, hibernation, spring equinox, Qingming, grain rain, summer, fullness, mango seeding, summer solstice, summer heat, summer heat, autumn, heat, white dew, fall equinox, cold dew, frost, winter, snow, snow, winter solstice, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold. It is the main body of the whole festival song, and the last four lines are the time pattern of the twenty-four festivals. That is, the first half of the festival falls on or around the 6th and 21st day of the month, and the second half falls on or around the 8th and 23rd day of the month.

Expanded information:

1, the spring: February 4 or 5 each year, said to be the beginning of the spring season.

2, rain: February 19 or 20 every year, when winter and spring, the temperature began to rise, the air humidity is increasing, but the cold air activity is still very frequent.

3, hibernation: March 5 or 6 every year, referring to the winter hibernation in the soil hibernating creatures began to move. Before and after the hibernation of the first cold and warm, temperature and wind changes are large.

4, the spring equinox: March 20 or 21 each year, the sun shines directly on the equator, day and night almost equal length. China's vast areas of overwintering crops will enter the spring growth stage.

5, Qingming: April 4 or 5 each year, the temperature rises, the weather gradually warm.

6, grain rain: every year on April 20 or 21, more rain, conducive to the growth of cereals.

7, Lixia: May 5 or 6 every year, everything grows and thrives.

8, Xiaoman: May 21 or 22 each year, wheat and other summer crops at this time the particles began to be full, but not ripe.

9, mango: June 5 or 6 every year, when the sun moved to 75 degrees of yellow longitude. Wheat and other awned crops have matured and can collect seeds.

10, summer solstice: June 21 or 22 every year, daylight directly to the Tropic of Cancer, there is a "day north to the sun, the sun is long to the shadow of the sun is short to", so it is called "summer solstice".

11, small summer: July 7 or 8 each year, into the summer, marking the entry of most of China's hot season.

12, big summer: July 22 or 23 each year, just before and after the middle of the ambush. This period is the hottest period of the year in large areas of China, but there are also anomalous years, "the summer heat is not hot", more rain.

13, Autumn: August 7 or 8 every year, grass and trees began to bear fruit, to the harvest season.

14, heat: August 23 or 24 every year, "at" for the end of the meaning, to the summer is coming to an end, the weather will become cooler. Due to the fall harvest, precipitation is very valuable. The word "处" means "to end" or "to hide". The first summer heat is the end of the hot summer days.

15, white dew: September 7 or 8 every year, due to the sun's point of direct sunlight significantly southward, the temperature drops quickly, the weather is cool, the evening close to the ground moisture in the grass and trees into white dew, thus the name "white dew".

16, the autumnal equinox: September 23 or 24 every year, the direct sunlight back to the equator, the formation of day and night.

17, cold dew: October 8 or 9 every year. At this time the sun began to move directly south, the northern hemisphere temperatures continue to fall, the weather is colder, the dew has a chilling effect, so the name "cold dew wind".

18, frost: October 23 or 24 each year, the Yellow River Basin, the first frost is generally in late October, coinciding with the "frost" festival, frost is very harmful to growing crops.

19, winter: November 7 or 8 every year, the beginning of winter.

20, Snow: November 22 or 23 each year, the northern cold air force, the rapid decline in temperature, precipitation snowflakes, but this time for the first snow stage, the amount of snow is small, the number of times, the Yellow River Basin, more in the "Snow" festival after the snowfall.

21, snow: December 7 or 8 every year. At this time, the sun's point of direct sunlight is approaching the Tropic of Cancer, the northern hemisphere, the day is short and the night is long.

22, winter solstice: December 22 or 23 each year, when the sun almost directly to the Tropic of Capricorn, the northern hemisphere is the formation of the day south to the day short to the day, the shadow of the day long to the shortest day of the year. After the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the day grows longer, the temperature continues to fall, and enter the lowest annual temperature "three nine".

23, small cold: January 5 or 6 each year, when the climate begins to cold.

24, Dahan: January 20 or 21 each year, nine cold, the coldest time of the year.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Twenty-four Seasonal Songs