The light snow here is not the same as the light snow of the weather, the light snow here is the solar term, not snowfall, although the weather will get colder and colder after the light snow solar term, but because "snow" represents cold, so the snow is used to name a season of the 24 solar terms, just like the last "frost fall" solar term.
If there is anything special about the light snow solar term, except that this is a solar term, light snow is a solar term that reflects precipitation and temperature, and it is a solar term with a high frequency of cold waves and strong cold air activities. (Meteorologically, rain, snow, hail, and other water vapor condensates that fall from the sky to the ground are called "precipitation".)
1. Light snow solar term
Light snow is the 20th solar term of the 24 solar terms and the second solar term in winter, which occurs on November 22 or 23 of the Gregorian calendar every year, that is, when the sun reaches 240° of the yellow longitude.
Light snow is a solar term that reflects precipitation and temperature, and it is a solar term with a high frequency of cold waves and strong cold air activities. The arrival of the light snow solar term means that the weather will get colder and the rainfall will gradually increase.
2. Koyuki Sankei
At this time, it no longer rains in the northern region, and it is naturally difficult to find the rainbow after the rain.
: The ancients believed that the dry yang is the sky, and the yin is the earth, because the yang in the sky rises, the yin in the earth falls, resulting in the heaven and the earth are not connected. Everything is occluded.
: Three Waits for Closure to Become Winter: At that time, the harsh winter will come.
3. Traditional customs
Small snow pickles, large snow pickled meat
After a light snowfall, the weather is dry and cold, and the pickled meat and vegetables will not be bad, and there is still this time to dry bacon in the south.
Eat glutinous rice cakes
In winter, there is a custom in the south to eat glutinous rice dumplings, which are a food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice. At the beginning, it was sacrificed with glutinous rice cakes.
Dried fish
When it snows lightly, fishermen along the coast of south-central Taiwan begin to dry fish and store dry food.
The light snow has passed, and the next solar term is the heavy snow solar term, but the coldest thing of the year is not the light snow and heavy snow solar term, but the 3949 days after the winter solstice.
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