24 solar terms: heavy snow

(Gregorian calendar December 7 ~ 8,)

Cuckoo gulls don't sound tiger into a beginning libo was born

【The appropriate 】 rubbing

【avoid 】 cold

        The syndrome of written seventy-two set solution ":" November's day, and also, now and great snow and also." (this November is to point to the lunar), this is the ancients to the interpretation of the heavy snow. Heavy snow and is not a very snowfall, saying only that the possibility of light snow than to big, relative YuXiaoXue, snow when the weather even colder.

        In ancient China, is divided into three snow will wait: "a HouJuan gulls don't sound; 2 wait tiger into three HouLi beginning; a out." Mean, to snow, because of the cold weather HanHaoDiao also no longer screaming; Because this is the most filled enraged period, is the so-called filled very fades, sun be the spirit has been germinating, so the tiger began courtship, li's (blue grass that also feel the sun be the spirit to be new spare.......

        At this time the Yellow River area gradually in our country have snow, the north WanLiXue revealed a floating charming landscape.

        In the north of the lunar year after November general in the snow, it is difficult to melt, the hard snow, for crops has two big use: the first used as a cold, because the north in late autumn filmed sowing, grow wheat seeding, want to rely on "snow quilt" cover above protection, or confusing wheat will freeze to death; The second used for irrigation, after spring warm weather, the snow began to slowly melting, every drop deep into the land, so there is a NongYan called "snowflake is like money, snow quilt cover crop". This is handed down from the life of the inveterate tired general, visible snow for crops growth has the very big relations.