What are the scenic spots in winter?

Plum blossoms bloom in winter. Plum blossom is the first of the top ten famous flowers in China. With orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, they are listed as four gentlemen, and with pine and bamboo, they are also called "three friends of the old cold". In the traditional culture of China, as it developed in winter, Mei, with her noble, strong and modest personality, gives people the motivation to make progress. In the cold, before the flowers bloom, the world is lonely, and spring has come.

2. Snow

Snow is solid water, which falls from the mixed clouds to the ground in the form of snowflakes. Snow is a natural phenomenon that water condenses in the air and falls, which is very common in northern China. Snowfall only occurs under the influence of very cold temperatures and extratropical cyclones, so the probability of snowfall in subtropical and tropical areas is relatively small.

3. Frost

Rime, commonly known as tree hanging, is a milky white ice crystal deposit formed by direct condensation of water vapor in the air at low temperature or direct freezing of supercooled water droplets on objects. This is a rare natural wonder in winter.

Rime is not ice or snow, but the result of fog on branches and other objects freezing below zero degrees Celsius and viscous water vapor piling up with the wind, which shows as white opaque granular structure deposits. The formation of rime requires low temperature and sufficient water vapor, and it is even more rare to have these two extremely important and contradictory natural conditions for the formation of rime.

4. Snowman

Snowman refers to a humanoid snowdrift made of natural snow or artificial snow, which is widely popular among children all over the world and is a special form of entertainment. Making a snowman is an interesting activity that can only be enjoyed on snowy days. Of course, the snow must be large enough to accumulate enough snowballs, and the temperature should be low enough to prevent the snow from melting quickly.

5. Ice sculpture

Ice sculpture, as its name implies, is to carve all kinds of things on the ice, such as animals and household items. As early as in the northeast, due to the freezing weather, there was often ice and snow, and the snow outside the door was full of feet. At that time, some people had carved the ice blocks formed by rivers into simple shapes to hold things, so ice sculptures should have originated in China at the earliest.

Extended data

The conditions for the formation of rime are very harsh. First of all, the winter is cold and long, and there is enough water vapor in the air. Secondly, the formation of rime requires both sunny days and partial cloudy days, as well as calm, or the wind speed is very small.

Clouds in the sky are like quilts of the earth. When there are clouds at night, the outward long-wave radiation is weakened, which makes the ground temperature drop slowly and the temperature difference between day and night is relatively small, so that the water vapor in the air near the ground will not condense. If this quilt is lifted, it will emit more heat, lower the ground temperature and provide the necessary conditions for water vapor condensation.

Strong wind is the natural enemy in the process of rime formation, which can always blow away the ice crystals with loose structure in the process of rime formation. Even if the rime gathers together, it will be blown away without a trace, and the conditions of small wind or still wind provide a guarantee for the condensation of water vapor into rime.

Generally speaking, in winter, sunny days are unlikely to appear at the same time as still winds or breezes. In addition, when there is supercooled fog, it is especially beneficial to the growth of ice crystals on ground objects. At this time, white ice flowers are formed on wires and branches, which is called "rime". When there is fog and the temperature is higher than 0℃, fog drops stick to leaves or other objects, which is called "fog condensation" and is most common in forests.