What does Qingming mean? What are the climatic characteristics of Qingming Festival?

What does Qingming mean? What are the climatic characteristics of Qingming Festival?
Qingming Festival is not only a traditional cultural festival in my country, but also one of the 24 solar terms in China, so it is inevitable that it will have some impact on the weather. Spring is a season of vitality and revival, but the weather changes greatly. Fortune Teller Network has summarized the festivals and solar terms in February of the lunar calendar in 2018. You are welcome to check it out!

Qingming calendar weather

Qingming Festival falls on April 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year when the sun reaches 15 degrees of the ecliptic longitude.
During the Qingming Festival, the average daily temperature in most parts of my country, except the northeast and northwest regions, has risen to 12tC. At this time, the rainfall is the most abundant, and new green leaves begin to appear on flowers, plants and trees in most parts of the north, changing the withered and yellow scene in winter. Magnolias, forsythias and other flowers bloom one after another, followed by cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, apricot blossoms and other flowers. In the south, the flowers are pink, willows are green, pears are white, and vegetables are yellow, and many plants are in bloom. Poetic lines such as "Peach and plum blossoms smile on the auspicious Qingming Festival" and "The grass and trees in the suburban fields are soft after the rain" are vivid descriptions of the natural phenomena during the Qingming Festival.

The climate for Qingming Festival

The beginning of the blooming of tung trees - the response of tung trees to the regular changes in the natural climate, especially the changes in solar terms, is more prominent. Every year during the Qingming solar term, tung trees begin to bloom. After observation, people also discovered an interesting phenomenon: the tung tree seemed to know the year, month and day. In a leap year, one branch grows thirteen leaves, and in a normal year, it grows twelve leaves.
Therefore, "the beginning of the blooming of tung trees" has become a symbol of the Qingming solar term.
The field mouse turned into a mandarin duck - the mandarin duck is a quail, a migratory bird that lives in farmland in spring. Because farming is busy around the Qingming Festival, people often see foxes in the fields but not field mice. It was believed that the "Jia" was transformed from a field mouse, so "the field mouse transformed into a "Jia"" became the corresponding sign of the second phase of the Qingming solar term. In fact, the fact that voles cannot metamorphose should be attributed to the ancients' observation error.
Rainbows begin to appear - every year during the Qingming Festival, a rainbow will appear after cloudy weather. The so-called rainbow. It is the colorful or white arc formed on the rain curtain or fog when sunlight enters water droplets through refraction, reflection and diffraction. Because it reacts more prominently to the changes in solar terms, "the beginning of the appearance of rainbows" becomes one of the three signs of the Qingming solar term.
The appearance of a rainbow. Sometimes in the East, sometimes in the West. Sometimes in the north, people have come up with a proverb after long-term observation: "Northern rainbows don't mean rain.
"Southern rainbow indicates heavy rain." This is a weather phenomenon in which southern rainbow indicates that it will rain heavily. Of course, due to regional differences, this may not be the case in some places.

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