Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - What are the agricultural activities during the frosty season?

What are the agricultural activities during the frosty season?

There are these farming activities during frost season: harvesting crops, storing food, protecting fruit trees, and cultivating seedlings, the details of which are as follows:

1. Harvesting crops. Around the time of frost, fall crops such as rice, corn and soybeans have matured. Farmers need to carry out harvesting and drying work to ensure that these crops can be properly preserved before the onset of winter. After harvesting, the fields also need to be cleaned of debris in time for winter plowing.

2. Store food. After the frost, the temperature gradually decreases and winter is approaching. In order to ensure an adequate food supply in winter, farmers need to store some easy-to-preserve foodstuffs, such as pickles and cured meat, before the frost. At the same time, some food crops, such as corn and soybeans, need to be stored for the winter.

3, protect fruit trees. After the frost, the temperature drops, fruit trees also enter the dormant period. In order to ensure the health of fruit trees and next year's yield, farmers need to carry out some protective measures. For example, whitening the fruit trees and tying grass handles to prevent frost damage and insect pests in winter. In addition, they need to prune branches in time and clean up dead leaves and weeds in the orchard to keep it tidy.

4, cultivate seedlings. Although the frost season is the harvesting season of crops, it is also the sowing season of some vegetables and flowers. Farmers can cultivate some seedlings in greenhouses or greenhouses to prepare for next year's agricultural production. In addition, some vegetables and flowers, such as garlic seedlings, radish seedlings and cyclamen, can also be grown indoors.

Relation of Frost Season

1, the time of Frost Season. Frost season is around October 23rd on the Gregorian calendar every year. Frost season is one of the twenty-four traditional Chinese solar terms, marking the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. It is the last solar term of the fall season, and contains the meaning of cold weather and the appearance of the first frost.

2. The meaning of the frosty season. Frost, as the name suggests, means that the weather begins to enter the frost period. At this time of the year, the temperature gradually decreases, the humidity in the air also gradually decreases, and the temperature at night may fall below zero, and frost begins to appear. During this time of year, most of the earth's crops have matured and need to be harvested and dried, while some vegetables and flowers begin to be grown indoors.

3. Folk culture at the time of frost. Chrysanthemum Appreciation. Frost season is the time when chrysanthemums bloom, so chrysanthemum appreciation has become an important activity at this time of the year. People will enjoy various colors of chrysanthemums in parks, courtyards and other places to feel the breath of autumn. Eating persimmons. In some parts of China, people have the custom of eating persimmons during the frosty season. Eating persimmons can prevent dry and cracked lips, as well as moisturize the lungs and relieve coughs.