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Introduction to the Origin of Little Snow

What month is Xiaoxue in 2017

The time of Xiaoxue in 2017 is Wednesday, November 22, 2017 (which is the fifth day of the tenth month of the Chinese lunar calendar)

The festival of Xiaoxue Introduction

Little Snow, is the 20th of the twenty-four seasons. on November 22 or 23, the sun reaches 240° of the yellow longitude, which is called the Little Snow festival. At this time, the sun is located in the equatorial latitude -20 ° 16', the daytime in Beijing on this day is only 9 hours 49 minutes, the height of the sun at noon is only 29 ° 50'.

The handle of the Big Dipper points to the west-northwest (10 o'clock on a clock face) at night during the "Little Snow" festival. Every night after 20:00, if you go to the outdoor stargazing, you can see the Big Dipper sinking in the west, and the "W"-shaped Cassiopeia rising into the sky, she replaced the Big Dipper to take up the task of looking for the coordinates of Polaris, for stargazers to navigate. Quadrilateral Pegasus is approaching the sky, the logo of the winter sky - Orion has been in the eastern horizon probe.

Into the festival, China's vast areas of the northwest wind began to become a regular visitor, the temperature drops, gradually falling to below 0 ℃, but the earth is not yet too cold, although the beginning of snowfall, but the amount of snow is not very large, so it is called the little snow. At this time, yin gas decline, yang gas rise, and cause heaven and earth do not pass, yin and yang do not intersect, all things lose vitality, heaven and earth closed and turned into a severe winter. North of the Yellow River, there will be the first snow, reminding people of the cold to keep warm.

Introduction of the origin of the snow

The proverbial "small snow, the ground sealed strict", refers to the small snow after the size of the river successively frozen. The proverb says: "Small snow snow full of days, the next year will be a good year." Here are three layers of meaning, one is a small snow fall snow, the next year, even rain, no big drought and flood; Second, the snow can freeze some germs and pests, the next year to reduce the occurrence of pests; Third, the snow has a warming effect, conducive to the decomposition of organic matter in the soil, to enhance soil fertility. Therefore, as the saying goes, "snow is a good year"

The formula for calculating the date of the Snow Festival: [Y*D+C]-L

The formula is interpreted: Y = the number of years after the second, D = 0.2422, L = leap year, the 21st century, C = 22.36, the 20th century = 23.08.

The formula is interpreted: Y = years after 2, D = 0.2422, L = leap year, 21st century, C = 22.36, the 20th century = 23.08. 23.08.

For example: 2088 date of light snow = [88 × 0.2422 + 22.36] - [88/4] = 43-22 = 21, November 21 light snow. Exception: add 1 day to the calculation for 1978.

The three seasons of Little Snow:

The first is when the rainbow hides and disappears;

The second is when the weather rises and the earth's qi falls;

The third is when it is occluded and becomes winter.

Explanation: As the yang in the sky rises and the yin in the earth falls, the heaven and earth are not accessible and the yin and yang do not intermingle, so everything loses its vitality, and the heaven and earth are closed off to the bitter cold of winter.

The Origin of Snow

Small Snow Festival to the "small snow" is to reflect the weather phenomena of the festival. Snow is small, and there is no snow on the ground, which is the original meaning of the "Little Snow" festival. The ancient book "qunfang spectrum" said: "small snow gas cold and will snow carry on, the ground is not very cold and snow is not big." That is to say, to the "small snow" section due to the cold weather, precipitation form of rain into snow, but at this time due to the "ground cold is not very" so the snow is less often, the amount of snow is not big, so called small snow. Therefore, the snow indicates the beginning of the snowfall and the degree of snow, snow and rain, rain and other festivals, are directly reflecting the precipitation of the festival.

The festival of light snow and the weather of light snow is not necessarily linked

The light snow festival said "light snow" and daily weather forecasts said "light snow" meaning different, light snow festival is a climate concept, it represents the light snow festival. Climate concept, it represents the climate characteristics during the snow festival; and weather forecasts in the small snow refers to the snowfall intensity of the smaller snow. Snow is a product of cold weather. Meteorology of the snow when the horizontal visibility distance is equal to or greater than 1,000 meters, the depth of snow on the ground is less than 3 centimeters, the 24-hour snowfall between 0.1-2.4 mm snowfall is called "light snow".

Small knowledge of snow

In the north of China, people usually eat shabu shabu during the snowy season. During the general snow season, the weather is cold and dark with less light, which can easily trigger or aggravate depression. This season, it is appropriate to eat warm food such as mutton, beef, chicken, etc.; it is appropriate to eat the benefit of the kidney food such as cashews, gorgonians, yams, chestnuts, white fruits, walnuts and so on.

Curing bacon

Folk have: "winter wax wind curing, storage to winter" custom. After the snow, the temperature drops sharply, the weather becomes dry, it is a good time to process bacon.

After the snowy season, some farmers began to do sausage, bacon, and wait until the Spring Festival just to enjoy the food.

Tasting patties

In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating patties in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, mochi was a traditional festival offering in the southern region, and it was first used by farmers to offer sacrifices to the bull god. There is a saying "October morning, mochi LuLu burning", is a reference to the sacrificial event.

The appropriate complementary snow can balance the yin and yang, but eating too much high-calorie supplements will lead to the stomach, lung fire, manifested in the upper respiratory tract, tonsils, oral mucosal inflammation or constipation, hemorrhoids and so on. Therefore. Supplementation, in particular, should pay attention to whether to meet the conditions of supplementation, false is supplementation, at the same time should be divided into the performance of the tonic and the scope of application, but also should then eat some cold food, such as radish, pine eggs and so on.

The supplementation of the gas deficiency

The so-called gas deficiency that gas is not enough to use, the movement of the gas, tired, lazy, often sweat, the color of the face of the white, tongue pale white, weak pulse weakness. The person who has a deficiency of qi can use ginseng to supplement his or her diet.

Ginseng is warm in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and can replenish the vital energy, which is the key medicine to replenish the vital energy, and it is said in the "Classic" that it is "bright-eyed, happy and wise, and long-serving, lightweight and prolonged", and modern research has proved that ginseng can regulate the function of the reticulo-cutaneous system, and ginseng saponins contained in ginseng are indeed anti-aging. It does have anti-aging effect. Use. Available ginseng flavor decoction soup, the name of a single ginseng soup, with the benefits of gas solid off the efficacy of the old and weak people, long service this soup, can be strong body. Ginseng, if cut into slices, can supplement the body, defense against disease, and enhance the body's ability to resist disease [5].

Blood deficiency supplementation

The so-called blood deficiency, that is, the nutrition of the human body is insufficient, can not play the role of moistening the human body, the performance of intolerance of hard work, the face of the color of the glabrous, pale, and easy forgetfulness, insomnia, tongue pale, pulse fine. The person who has a blood deficiency is elected to Longan meat tonic.

Folklore

Curing bacon

Folklore: "winter wax wind curing, storage to winter" custom. After the snow, the temperature drops sharply, the weather becomes dry, it is a good time to process bacon.

After the snowy season, some farmers began to do sausage, bacon, the excess meat with the traditional method of reserves, wait until the Spring Festival just to enjoy the food.

Eating patties

In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating patties in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Mochi is a food made from steamed and pounded glutinous rice, and is a popular delicacy in some parts of southern China.

In ancient times, mochi was a traditional festival offering in the southern region, and was first used by farmers to offer sacrifices to the bull god. There is a saying, "October morning, mochi LuLu burning", which refers to the sacrificial event.

Drying Fish

During the Little Snowy season, fishermen on the coast of south-central Taiwan will start drying fish and storing dried food. Swarms of osprey will come to the Taiwan Strait around the time of the Snow Festival, along with sailfish and sandfish.

The Taiwanese proverb: "October beans are so fat that you can't see your head" refers to the fact that in the area around Bu Bu Dai in Chiayi County, "bean fish" can be caught in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

Eating soup

Around the time of the snow, the Tujia people began their annual folklore activities of "killing the New Year's pig and welcoming the New Year", which added a warm atmosphere to the cold winter. Eat "planing soup", is the custom of the Tujia people; in the "kill the New Year pig, welcome the New Year" folk activities, with the heat still exists in the top quality fresh pork, carefully cooked food called "planing soup "

This is the first time in the history of the city.

On the occasion of this year's Lunar New Year's snow, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Longshan County, Shihpai Town, Tujia farmers, with fresh pork just killed the New Year's pig, cooking Tujia traditional food "planing soup", ready to be used to entertain friends and relatives.

Snow proverbs and ballads

The lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River are popular in the snowy season proverbs and ballads:

During the snowy season, the lowest temperatures across the north are below zero, and livestock should be protected from the cold. North China in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River is at the beginning of the snowy period, in the period of less precipitation, the arrival of light snow is of great significance.

Hebei: "Snow snow full of days, the next year will be a good year." This is the farmers' friends of the small snow festival when the snow praise, this time the snow water can fight drought and cold.

Shandong: "Snow collection onions, not collection on the empty. Turnip cabbage, collection cellar. Wheat winter irrigation, moisture preservation and frost prevention. The first thing you need to do is to plant a tree and collect the seeds. The floodplains are being transformed, and the water is being used to treat the mountains. Water conservancy support, repair canals and wells."

Henan: "Winter snow, grasp the winter plowing. Combined with re-sowing, increase the harvest. Land deep turning, thickening the soil layer. Pressure sand for soil, freezing pests."

Proverbs and ballads popular in the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River during the Little Snow Festival:

During the Little Snow, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River began to enter the winter season, and the first frost can be seen in some areas. However, the first snow comes late, usually in mid to late December. This region began field management of wheat and oilseed rape during the Little Snow Festival, and began to accumulate fertilizer.

Jiangsu: "winter under the wheat is late, snow to engage in the accumulation of fertilizer."

Shanghai, Zhejiang: "winter snow north wind cold, cotton grain and oilseed fast finish. The oilseed rape planting wheat continue to sow, store enough feed do not delay."

Proverbs and ballads popular in southern China during the Snow Festival:

Fujian, Guangdong: there are still crops in the ground during the Snow Festival, there are proverbs to check.

Fujian local: "Snow point green rice", green rice refers to the late rice.

Guangdong has: "small snow full field red", snow full field empty ", here the so-called red, does not mean red color, but refers to the farm work, this time began to harvest late rice, sowing wheat.

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