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Lichun: "Li" means "beginning", and since the Qin Dynasty, China has always used Lichun as the beginning of spring.
Rain: At this time, the temperature rises, the ice and snow melt, and the precipitation increases, so it is called rainwater.
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Sting: Ancient called "Qi Sting", when the weather turns warmer, there is gradually spring thunder, the animals into the winter hidden in the soil, do not drink or eat, called "sting", and "sting" is the day when the heavens wake up the stinging animals with thunder.
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Vernal equinox: The mid-equinox of the ninety days of spring, the day of the vernal equinox, on which the sun shines directly at the Earth's equator, and the seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are reversed. "Spring and Autumn Dew, Yin and Yang In and Out" says: "The spring equinox, yin and yang are half, so the day and night are equal and the cold and summer are flat. ”
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Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival,
It is also one of the most important festivals of sacrifice, the day of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship.
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Valley rain: the last festival of spring, derived from the ancients "rain born of a hundred grains" said, at this time the rain increases, conducive to the growth of cereals, is the best time to sow seedlings, melons and beans.
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Lixia: The first solar term of summer, indicating the official beginning of the Mengxia season, people are accustomed to Lixia as an important festival for the temperature to rise significantly, the heat is coming, thunderstorms are increasing, and crops enter the peak season.
Xiao Man: The meaning is that the grains of the summer ripening crops are beginning to be filled and full, but they are not yet ripe, but they are small full, not yet full.
Mango seed: Mango seed literally means "the wheat with mango is fast harvested, and the rice with mango can be planted". During the planting season, there is abundant rainfall and the temperature rises significantly. Common weather hazards include tornadoes, hail, high winds, heavy rain, drought, etc.
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Summer Solstice: Is the earliest of the twenty-four solar terms to be determined, on June 21 or 22 in the Gregorian calendar. On the day of the summer solstice, the sun's direct ground reach the northernmost point of the year, almost directly hitting the Tropic of Cancer, at which point the northern hemisphere has the longest daylight and becomes longer and farther north.
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Small summer: summer, meaning hot, small summer for small heat, not very hot. It means that the weather is starting to be hot, but it is not yet the hottest.
Summer: The summer festival is around the "middle volt" in the "three volt days", which is the hottest period of the year, with the highest temperature and the fastest crop growth, at the same time, various meteorological disasters such as drought, flooding and wind disasters in many areas are also the most frequent.
Liqiu: It is the 13th of the twenty-four solar terms, and when it comes to Liqiu, the plane tree begins to fall leaves, so there is an idiom of "deciduous leaves know autumn". From a literal point of view,
The character "qiu" is composed of the word he and the word fire, which means that the grain is ripe. Autumn is a transitional season in which the weather turns from hot to cool, and then from cool to cold, and autumn is the first festival of autumn.
Heat treatment: The "place" of summer means "termination", and the meaning of summer heat is "the official termination of summer heat". Therefore, there is a saying: fighting for autumn and summer refers to the time between autumn and summer, although autumn has come in the sense, but the summer heat is still unabated.
Bai Lu: In the Explanation of the Seventy-Two Waiting For the Moon Order, it is said: "The August Festival... The yin qi gradually became heavier, condensed and white. As the weather cools, you'll find many dewdrops on the ground and leaves in the early morning, so named because water vapor condenses on it at night.
Autumn equinox: The minute is half, which is the median equinox of the ninety days of autumn. The time is generally September 22 or 23 every year. The climate in the south begins with this solar term.
Cold dew: Cold dew means that the temperature is lower than when the white dew is white, and the dew on the ground is colder, and it is about to condense into frost. During the cold dew season, the south ridge and the vast area to the north have entered autumn, and the northeast and northwest regions have entered or are about to enter winter.
Frost: The weather is getting colder and frost begins to fall. Frostfall is the last festival of autumn and is the transitional season from autumn to winter.
Li Dong: Indicates that winter begins from here. Winter means the end, and it has the meaning of collecting crops after harvesting.
Light snow: into the festival, the northwest wind in the vast area of China began to become a regular visitor, the temperature dropped, gradually dropped below 0 ° C, but the earth has not been too cold, although the snow began to fall, but the amount of snow is not large, so it is called light snow.
Heavy snow: Heavy snow means that the weather is colder, and the possibility of snowfall is greater than when there is light snow, which does not mean that the amount of snowfall must be very large, on the contrary, the precipitation in various places is further reduced after heavy snowfall.
Winter Solstice: Also known as "Winter Festival", "He Winter", it is rumored that the winter solstice in the history of the Zhou Dynasty is the New Year's Day, which used to be a very lively day. It is more common that in northern China there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, while in the south it is to eat tangyuan, of course, there are exceptions.
Xiao Han: At this time, around the "Three Nine", Xiao Han marks the beginning of entering the coldest day of the year.
Great Cold: It is the last of the twenty-four solar terms of the year. Great cold means that the weather is extremely cold. After the great cold and spring, that is, usher in the new year's solar cycle.
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