What is the Frost Descent solar term and what does it mean?

What is the Frost Descent solar term and what does it mean?
The solar terms reflect climate changes and different folk customs and cultures. Does Frost Descent mean frost is coming? As the last solar term in autumn, the Frost Descent also heralds the coming of winter. What is the Frost Descent solar term and what does it mean? The ninth month of the lunar calendar is a golden season, with plump rice and red persimmons. Shuimoxiansheng.com’s 2019 Lunar September special topic will take you to harvest the beauty.

What is the Frost Descent solar term?

——The Frost Descent solar term is the 18th solar term every year. Frost begins to fall around the time of the Frost Descent, and some places are busy sowing wheat. Check and supplement early-sown wheat quickly to ensure that the seedlings are complete, even and strong.
Interpretation of the Frost Descent solar term:
——Chinese
name: Shuangjiang ——Foreign name: First Frost ——Meaning: The weather is getting colder, and the ground may produce the first frost due to freezing ——Climate characteristics: Cool autumn wind, large temperature difference between day and night, obvious autumn dryness
——Season: Autumn ——Time: October 22, 23, or 24 of the Gregorian calendar every year ——Sun position: The sun is at 210° of the ecliptic longitude ——Previous solar term: Cold Dew ——Next solar term: Beginning of Winter
——Customs and activities: appreciating chrysanthemums, climbing mountains, etc. ——Customary food: medicinal food ——Farming activities: harvesting in time, plowing the fields, planting spring crops ——Health preservation: preventing autumn dryness, preventing autumn depression, and preventing cold
——The handle of the dipper points to: Xu—— Attribute: The middle of September in the 24 solar terms——Three signs: Jackals offer sacrifices to animals, the grass and trees turn yellow and fall, and all stinging insects bury themselves

What does the Frost Descent solar term mean?

——The meaning of the Frost Descent solar term: "Three Signs of Frost Descent"
"Collected Explanations of the 72 Seasonal Changes" says about Frost Descent: In the middle of September, the air becomes cold and condensed, and the dew turns into frost. "Frost Descent" means the weather is gradually getting colder.
——The ancient method of equalizing the solar terms divides the Frost Descent into three stages: the first stage is when jackals offer sacrifices to animals; the second stage is when the grass and trees turn yellow and fall; the third stage is when all stinging insects lie down. The jackals begin to capture prey and sacrifice animals, using animals to offer sacrifice to heaven in return for their origins, and also to offer sacrifice to the autumn gold; the leaves on the ground turn yellow and fall; the stinging insects all stay in their holes, motionless and uneaten, with their heads down, entering hibernation.

Measures to prevent frost on crops during frost season: 1. Plant early in the season to avoid late autumn frosts: - Farmers light fires in vineyards to create smoke to resist frost - Farmers light fires in vineyards to create smoke to resist frost. 2. Use early-maturing, high-yield varieties.
《3》Watering: Because dry soil dissipates heat faster than wet soil;
《4》Smoke: It can form a heat-insulating cloud layer in a small area to reduce frost damage;
《5》 Hoeing: "The hoe has fire" to increase the ground temperature;
《6》 Apply sodium humate or phosphate fertilizer to make crops mature earlier: -- Experiments have shown that applying humate or phosphate fertilizer to yam, corn, and millet can make them mature 5-7 days earlier;
《7》The most fundamental thing is afforestation, which can regulate the temperature and completely change the environment.

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