As the saying goes, "count nine cold days, cold in three nine", which refers to the number of nine cold days, and the coldest time is during the three nines. This is not only the experience of our ancestors, but also has a scientific basis. Through the statistics of the temperature during the logarithmic nine period in recent years, it is found that it is average.
Three. The September and April 9 periods are the coldest.
And everyone should have found out, generally.
Three. The 9th and 49th periods correspond to the small cold and big cold in the 24 solar terms, and during these two solar terms, not only the temperature is low, but the snowfall is also the most concentrated.
Now it is about to usher in the Xiaohan solar term, and there is a saying about Xiaohan among the people, that is, "Xiaohan comes early, take off the padded jacket during the Spring Festival", what does this mean, is this year's Xiaohan coming early or late?Is it cold during the Spring Festival?Let's go a**!
Xiaohan is actually a very characteristic solar term, in the 24 solar terms it is the penultimate solar term, but also the fifth solar term in winter, after the small cold solar term is the big cold, and this also means that this round of the cycle is over, the next is the beginning of the spring solar term, indicating the arrival of the new year.
But what is very interesting is that Xiaohan is also the first solar term of the New Year, like the Xiaohan solar term in 2024 is on January 6, that is, the first Saturday after New Year's Day.
At the same time, the Xiaohan solar term is also the starting point of the twenty-four flower trade winds, and the old saying goes: "The wind is constant, the flowers have letters, and the time is recorded in the order of flowers, so the years are fragrant." "The ancients have long discovered that the day before the flowers bloom, there will be a wind to report first, otherwise the flowers will not bloom. This is recorded in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period": "If the wind does not believe, its flowers will not be successful." ”
But the wind is very honest, it will come on time every year, so the flowers also bloom on time, so it is called "flower trade wind". The ancients discovered that the flower trade wind began to blow from the Xiaohan solar term and lasted until the valley rain, experiencing a total of 4 months and 8 solar terms.
And each solar term has three phases, each of which corresponds to a kind of flower trade wind, so there are twenty-four flower trade winds. And at the beginning of the Xiaohan solar term, one waits for plum blossoms, two waits for camellia, and three waits for narcissus, they are all flowers that we Chinese like.
It is worth mentioning that after the Xiaohan solar term, the weather has also begun to enter the severe cold, that is, the coldest time of the year has arrived. However, the general time of the small cold has not reached the extreme, so it is called the small cold, and the coldest time after that is the "big cold", which is the coldest day of the year and the most snow.
This old saying is also the experience of the ancients. It means that if the Xiaohan solar term comes earlier, then you can take off your padded jacket before the Spring Festival of that year, in other words, it is not too cold during the Spring Festival.
Some people are confused, isn't the Xiaohan solar term around January 6 every year, how can there be a difference between morning and evening?In fact, there are many sets of calendars in our country, and the time of each solar term corresponding to the Gregorian calendar is basically fixed, but the fluctuation in the lunar calendar is relatively large. Therefore, the morning and evening of the Xiaohan solar term here are based on the lunar calendar.
This year's Xiaohan solar term is on the 25th day of the winter month (November) in the lunar calendar, so it is a little earlier than in previous years. Because the explanation of the Xiaohan solar term in the "Seventy-two Candidate Explanations of the Lunar Order" is: "The December Festival, the cold at the beginning of the month is still small, so the clouds, and the moon and a half are big." It shows that Xiaohan is generally in the early December of the lunar calendar, and this period is not too cold, so it is named "Xiaohan".
And this year's Xiaohan solar term is on the 25th day of the winter month of the lunar calendar, which has not yet reached the wax month, and it is still more than a month (34 days) away from the Spring Festival, so it is indeed a bit early.
Therefore, according to this old proverb of the ancestors, this year's Xiaohan solar term comes a little early, so that it is not too cold during the Spring Festival, and there is no need to wear a cotton jacket. The question is, is there any truth to what the ancients said?
After all, this year's Xiaohan is still more than a month away from the Spring Festival, which is much earlier than in previous years. Therefore, if the interval between Xiaohan and the Spring Festival is long, it indicates that it is not too cold during the Spring Festival.
In ancient China, people's understanding of natural phenomena was limited, so they tended to observe and summarize experience to ** future weather conditions.
This kind of experience summary is often handed down in the form of colloquialisms, because most of them are based on the observation and summary of natural phenomena, so they still have a certain use value and reference value.
However, the saying "Xiaohan comes early, take off the padded jacket during the Spring Festival" has no scientific basis and cannot accurately ** the temperature change during the Spring Festival.
But in any case, after the Xiaohan solar term, the weather is even colder, and the old saying goes, "practice three dogs in summer, practice three nines in winter", at this time we should not only pay attention to weather changes, but also pay attention to maintaining good health.
Proper exercise and exercise can help people boost their body's immunity while also maintaining good eating habits and lifestyle habits.
In addition, people should also maintain a good state of mind and emotional state, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of colds and other diseases.
In short, the Xiaohan solar term is an important solar term in winter, and people should pay attention to keeping warm and healthy. Although there is no scientific basis for the saying "the little cold comes early, take off the padded jacket during the Spring Festival", it also reminds us to pay attention to the weather changes and adjust our clothing and diet in time to survive this cold winter.