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What stage of farming does each of the 24 solar terms represent?

Twenty-four solar terms represent different stages of farming, which are summarized as follows:

1. beginning of spring: It's the spring ploughing period, and farmers' uncles often say that a year's plan lies in spring, and beginning of spring told people to prepare for ploughing;

2. Rain: Spring is as expensive as oil, and spring rain helps to accumulate fertilizer;

3. Scare: used to remind people that they are ready to cultivate land and grow crops.

4. vernal equinox: winter wheat should be watered when it turns green;

5. Qingming: It is the season of planting melons and trees, so rice seedlings should be selected;

6. Grain Rain: Remind people to branch in the nursery where miscellaneous grains are sown;

7. long summer: Wheat seedlings are getting higher and higher, and rice seedlings are to be planted in the whole field;

8. Xiaoman: It is necessary to prevent aphids and wheat straw flies and prevent cold wind;

9. Miscanthus species: Miscanthus species have little rain and high temperature, so the paddy field should be weeded frequently;

1. Summer solstice: The hail is fierce at the beginning of the summer solstice, and the corn is topdressing to prevent armyworms;

11. Slight summer heat: When it comes to the dog days, it's time to prevent rain and fire.

12. Great summer heat: during the great summer heat, heavy rain increases, so pay attention to deep water and protect seedlings from low temperature;

13. beginning of autumn: Deep ploughing turns the soil into gold, and bud grafting in the nursery picks the tree core;

14. Summer treatment: irrigation is needed in summer treatment, grain and vegetables are managed frequently in the later period, and winter wheat is prepared to prepare fertilizer;

15. White dew: White dew is cold at night and hot during the day, which is a good season for sowing winter wheat, and early-maturing apples are busy picking;

16. Autumnal equinox: Autumn equinox is busy with harvest, and grain is milled and threshed for public grain;

17. cold dew: cold dew grass withered wild geese flying south, and the potato planted should be taken back;

18. first frost: It is freezing and frosting in first frost, so it is necessary to irrigate winter water on the anti-freezing day, thresh and dry the grain to repair the granary;

19. beginning of winter: Sheep and livestock pens have been firmly built, and farmland construction has reached a climax;

2, light snow: the light snow field is sealed with the first snow floating, and the fertilizer is accumulated in winter leisure;

21, heavy snow: heavy snow and wax snow bode well for a good year, so we should accumulate more fertilizer to find a fertilizer source;

22. Winter Solstice: The winter solstice is extremely cold for several nine days, so doors and windows at home should be protected from cold;

23, slight cold: slight cold enters three or nine days, and the harvest is rich to celebrate New Year's Day;

24. Great cold: Although the great cold makes farmers happy, they are happy to spend the next year after being rich;

Twenty-four solar terms can enable farmers to accurately grasp the sowing and harvesting time of various crops, which can not only play a prompt role, but also play a warning role.