Meaning of the 24 Solar Terms

as follows:

1, spring: is the beginning of the spring season, indicating that the harsh winter has passed, the temperature began to rise .

2, rain: marking the majority of China's successive ice and snow melt, temperatures rise, humidity increases, rain gradually more.

3, hibernation: hibernation, hidden meaning. Animals into the earth hibernation called hibernation, to the second year after the spring rains climbed out, the ancient thought was shaken by the sound of thunder, so called hibernation. At this time the weather turned warm, most parts of China into the spring plowing season. Central China farmers say: "after the hibernation festival, spring plowing does not stop".

4, the spring equinox: the spring equinox is exactly the sunlight directly on the equator, day and night half of the day. This day day and night across the country are almost the same length. Astronomy delineates the spring equinox as the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, most of China's overwintering crops into the spring growth stage.

5, Qingming: Qingming season weather is warming up, the Yellow River basin in most areas of the uniform temperature rises to more than 10 degrees, the Yangtze River Basin temperatures are higher. Northern grass sprouting green, the southern land has been dressed in green. China's agricultural proverbs say: "planting trees and forests, not more than the Qingming", "before and after the Qingming, planting melons and beans". The day of the beginning of this festival is the Qingming Festival, and there is the custom of trekking and sweeping the graves.

6, Grain Rain: Grain rain when the temperature, the ground temperature have been stabilized higher, more rain, is conducive to the growth of the five grains, so there is a "rain born of a hundred grains," said.

7, the summer: said spring to summer, the line will enter the summer of fire. At this time, the growth of all things more exuberant, thriving. Field management is increasingly busy. Farmer's Proverb: "summer three dynasty hoeing all over the ground".

8, small full: its meaning is that the summer crops of the seeds began to be full of grout, but not yet ripe, just small full, not yet full.

9, mango: refers to the awned wheat and silkworm peas and other summer crops, in this festival is about to ripen, but also to the time of harvesting and saving seeds. The south of China will also enter the rainy "yellow plum" season.

10, the summer solstice: this day in the northern hemisphere, the longest day, the shortest night, also known as the northern solstice, that is, the sun runs to the northernmost day. Astronomy delineates the summer solstice as the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere.

11, small summer: this is the "three volts" of the "first volts", the climate is hot, steamy. In agricultural production, more busy in the summer and fall crop field management.

12, big summer: this time is the "in the ambush", is most of China into the hottest period of the year.

13, Autumn: China's customary as the beginning of autumn, heralding the cooler weather, plant seeding, the autumn harvest season is coming. However, after the fall summer has not been dissipated, there are hotter temperatures in the "autumn tiger" in the back.

14, the summer: "the moon season seventy-two wait collection": "place, stop also. This is when the heat stops." Thereafter, the temperature in most parts of China gradually decline.

15, white dew: the weather turns cool, the temperature difference between day and night increases, the ground moisture at night easily in the grass and trees into white dew, so the name white dew.

16, the autumnal equinox: the autumnal equinox and the vernal equinox this day, the sun is directly above the equator, the day and night are almost equal. Autumn equinox day in the middle of the whole fall, can be said to be a veritable autumn.

17, cold dew: the temperature continues to fall, the weather turned significantly cooler, the morning and night ground cold dew condensation. Most parts of China began to fall harvest and fall planting.

18, frost: "moon order seventy-two set of solutions": "September in the middle, the gas is clean and condensation, dew condensation for frost carry on." Indicates the beginning of frost in the central plains of the panhandle.

19, winter: the beginning of the winter season, when the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River is about to freeze.

20, the little snow: "moon order seventy-two set of explanation": "in October, the rain down and for the cold air thin, so condensed for the snow, the little one is not yet full of words." This is when the Yellow River basin generally began to snow.

21, big snow: "moon order seventy-two set of understanding": "big is also full, this time and snow is full." At this time the weather is colder than before, the number and amount of snowfall will increase.

22, the winter solstice: the opposite of the summer solstice, the northern hemisphere winter solstice when the day is the shortest, the longest shadow of the sunshine, the longest night. After the winter solstice day grows day by day. Northern folk have "eaten the winter solstice noodles, a day long line" said.

23, small cold: is the temperature of the year has reached the winter season, this time is worth "three nine" before and after, most of China's freezing cold, into the winter period.

24, Dahan: is the coldest period of the year, relative to the small cold, marking the continuation and intensification of the cold. The three rituals Yi Zong said: "the cold air of the reverse pole, it is called the big cold".

The origin of the twenty-four solar terms

The twenty-four solar terms originated in the Yellow River valley. As far back as the Spring and Autumn Period, the four solar terms of mid-spring, mid-summer, mid-autumn and mid-winter were set. Afterwards, it was continuously improved and perfected, and by the Qin and Han Dynasties, the 24 solar terms had been fully established. In 104 B.C.E., the Tai Chu Calendar, which was developed by Deng Ping and others, formalized the 24 solar terms in the calendar and clarified the astronomical positions of the 24 solar terms.

The sun starts from zero degree of yellow longitude, and every 15-degree run along the yellow longitude is called "a solar term". Each year runs 360 degrees, **** experience 24 seasons, 2 per month. Among them, the first of each month for the "festival", namely: spring, hibernation, Qingming, summer, Mangzao, small summer, autumn, dew, cold dew, winter, snow and cold, such as 12 festivals.

The second solar term of each month is "Zhongqi", i.e., 12 solar terms: rain, spring equinox, grain rain, Xiaoman, summer solstice, summer heat, summer heat, fall equinox, frost, snow, winter solstice, and Dahan. The "solar term" and the "middle term" alternate, each lasting 15 days, and people have now collectively referred to the "solar term" and the "middle term" as the "solar term" and the "middle term". "

The twenty-fourth solar month is the first of the twenty-first century.

Twenty-four seasons reflect the sun's annual visual movement, so the festival in the current calendar date is basically fixed, the first half of the 6th, 21st, the second half of the 8th, 23rd, before and after no difference of 1 to 2 days.