What do you mean the beginning of winter

"The beginning of winter" throttle on November 7 or 8, is the 19th throttle 24 solar terms.China's ancient folk customs to the beginning of winter to the beginning of winter.Departure pulled seventy-two hou the said: "stand, JianShi also", say again: "a collection of winter, and eventually, all things."All mean autumn crops closed drying out, collection storage, animals also have hidden to hibernate.The beginning of winter, it seems, not only represent the coming of winter.Complete, is the beginning of winter winter, collection of all things, to avoid cold.

"The beginning of winter" and the "beginning of autumn", the ancients also from this perspective of divination in this season of changes in temperature in winter, such as "the beginning of winter weather, a winter ling (cold);The beginning of winter Yin (rainy), temperature (warm) winter ".Without exception, the ancient to the beginning of winter day, the emperor personally led the three-fair Dan doctor to north line "to meet the winter".

In ancient China will be the beginning of winter is divided into three hou, "beginning a syndrome of water ice;Waiting to start frozen;Three hou pheasant's water as liked."The solar terms can already frozen water;The land also began to freeze;Three hou "pheasant's water for liked" the pheasant namely pheasant type of large bird, liked to large clams, after the beginning of winter, pheasant type of large bird is rare, but the sea can see enclosure lines and the color is similar to that of a pheasant clams.So the ancients think pheasant to turned into big clam after the beginning of winter.

The beginning of winter season, the sun has arrived at longitude 225 °, the northern hemisphere of solar radiation that get less and less, because the surface of the earth, there is still a residual heat storage of summer half year, so generally also not too cold.Sunny, no wind, warm and comfortable "Indian summer" weather is very pleasant, not only for DongZuoWu growth is also very good.But when the north cold air also has strong forces, often frequently invading, sometimes forming cool wind, and accompanied by rain and snow cold weather.