What is the first solar term of winter?

The first solar term of winter is Lidong.

Lidong is the 19th of the 24 solar terms Lidong, the first solar term of winter and one of the traditional Chinese festivals, which usually falls on November 7 or 8 of the solar calendar.

China's ancient times divided the Lidong festival into three five-day periods, and thus set out the three seasons: first, the water began to ice; second, the ground began to freeze; third, the pheasant into the water for the mirage. The arrival of winter marks the beginning of winter, the grass and trees withered, dormant insects, the activities of all things tend to rest, winter is not only the harvest rituals and harvest feasts held at the time, but also the season of the first cold winds.

Expanded

Climate characteristics of winter:

In some areas of southern China, winter to the Snow Festival (equivalent to the lunar calendar in October), there is often a period of warm weather, so that some fruit trees mistakenly think that spring is coming, the second time to blossom, as the so-called "August warmth! September temperature, October and a little spring". In the winter season, the so-called "cold in three nine", before the winter solstice is usually not very cold.

To the winter solstice in the non-native day as a starting point, every "nine days" counts a "nine", the first nine days is called "one nine", the second nine days is called "two nine", and so on, the coldest period of the year is the "three nine days". Since the winter solstice, began to enter the "three nine days", strong cold air south frequently, the temperature plummeted, the weather is cold. Therefore, the winter is really cold, is after the winter solstice.

People's Daily Online - Twenty-four Seasons? |? Lidong

Baidu Encyclopedia - Lidong