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What season does Daxue represent

Represents the season of heavy snow.

What does Daxue mean

Daxue is the twenty-first of the twenty-four solar terms, the third of the winter seasons, and falls on December 7 or 8 each year, when the sun's yellow meridian is 255 degrees. Relative to the small snow, the snow falls bigger and wider, often visible snowflakes falling scene. Every year on December 7 or 8 of the Gregorian calendar, the festival cross the snow. This day the sun runs to 255 degrees of yellow longitude, noon that day, with the Gui table to measure the shadow of the sun, the shadow length of the ancient ruler one zhang two feet four minutes, equivalent to today's 3.05 meters, the night observation of the Big Dipper seven-star handle points to the direction of Ohio, that is, the north-west, this stage is generally in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the month of mid-winter, Phyllostadium, the month of the best month.

"Big snow closes the river, small snow closes the mountain". Snow season snow gradually increased, the number of days of snow is also increasing, the temperature continues to go down l year, the ground has begun to have snow.

The snowy three wait. "the first wait crossbill Dan does not sound", crossbill Dan is a kind of night song for Dan's bird, this time this bird also convergence breath screen sound, hide burst nest does not come out. "The second tiger began to cross", this time the tiger to the rutting period, will begin to mate, reproduction of offspring. "The third wait Lai quite out", "Lai" is a kind of subtle grass, this small grass in the cold winter, but in the sunny side of the shoots.