Twenty-four solar terms are treasures of folk traditional culture and the wisdom and experience summarized by ancestors based on their own observations of life and nature. Late autumn has arrived. With the arrival of the Cold Dew season, Frost Descent is not far from us.
Frost fall is the last solar term in autumn. The so-called "Frost fall", the ancients said, "The qi is solemn and the frost falls, and the yin begins to condense." Frost fall indicates that the weather gradually becomes cold, and dew begins to condense into frost in the cold air. There is a saying among the people that "frost descends and kills all herbs", which means that plants that have been beaten with frost will not have vitality. The season of frost falls is very important for farming, so what does the season of frost falls indicate to us? Does the ancestors say "Frost will appear when it falls, and rice will turn into a warehouse; frost will not fall, and frost will cause famine" make sense?
The so-called "Frost is seen when it falls, and rice rots into a warehouse; frost is not falling, and there will be famine." This means that the ancestors believe that if frost is seen on the day of frost, it means that there will be a good harvest in the coming year. If there is no frost on the day of frost, it indicates that the next year will probably be a relatively poor harvest, and there will even be a crisis of famine!
There is also a saying among the people that "there is no frost in the frost, and the mortar head has no bran". It is also said that if there is no frost on the day of frost, the tools used to pound rice will not be stained with rice bran. It also shows from the side that the frost is not present, which will have a certain impact on the harvest in the coming year.
In many places, in order to welcome the arrival of frost, people even celebrate the Frost Day as a Frost Festival. For example, people in some places will come to the fields with farm tools, then shout "Frost Descent" loudly to the sky, and then put the farm tools on the ground, and wait until a day and a night before taking them back. If there is frost on the farm tools at that time, it indicates a good harvest in the coming year!
There is auspicious signs among the people that "frost falls and frost" is auspicious signs. So why are there still contradictory sayings such as "frost falls and kills hundreds of herbs", "frost falls and does not cut grains, one basket a day", etc., and even "frost falls and crops suffer when the day falls and crops suffer"?
Actually, this is easy to understand. Such different sayings are actually caused by the phenological gaps in different regions. At the same time, the impact of frost on people is also explained from different aspects.
The saying "Frost is seen when it falls, and rice rots into a warehouse; frost is not falling, and frost will cause famine" is because frost falls and frost is a sign of cold weather. If frost falls and frost falls, it means that the weather is cold. For some hidden pests in the ground, it will be difficult for them to survive such a cold winter.
, and common sayings like "killing hundreds of herbs in the frost" actually talk about the impact on current crops. The frost from the frost will affect the seedlings of winter wheat, rapeseed, etc., and will also affect the frost damage to the crops that have not yet been harvested, causing the crops to dehydrate and deteriorate.
In other words, frost fall is good because frost fall will freeze the eggs in the fields; frost fall is bad because frost fall will affect people's harvest.
In addition, there is also a saying among the people that "frost is reduced before the frost, picking rice is like picking bran; frost is reduced after the frost, and rice is filled with a full warehouse."
means that there is frost before the frost, which means it is a bad harvest year; and if frost is reduced after the frost, it means there is a good harvest year. The reason for this is that before the Frost Descent, the harvest of the ancestors was not completely over. Once frost is reduced, it will affect the crop harvest; and after frost Descent, it means that the autumn harvest has basically ended. Frost Descent Descent will not only not affect the harvest, but also indicates that there will be a better year in the coming year!
These statements about Frost Descent are all derived from the ancestors' summary of daily life and observation of nature. The twenty-four solar terms are no longer the only way to guide farming in many places, but also have profound cultural connotations!
