24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow
1 month, 2 weeks ago

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow

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The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Drinking soup During Minor Snow, indoor heating begins to work, which means the air indoors is dry and most people might find their nose and mouth feels a bit dry. Eating glutinous rice cake In some areas of South China, people have glutinous rice cakes around Minor Snow. Making preserved pork After Minor Snow, the temperature declines sharply and the air becomes dry. Making pickled vegetables For thousands of years, the people of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, have welcomed Minor Snow with pickled vegetables made in different ways.

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

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The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 6 and ends on Dec 20. Eating lamb Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow. Making sausages During Major Snow, people in southern China, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and Chongqing, …

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

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The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 6 and ends on Dec 20. Eating lamb Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow. Making sausages During Major Snow, people in southern China, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and Chongqing, …

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 6 and ends on Dec 20. Eating lamb Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow. Making sausages During Major Snow, people in southern China, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and Chongqing, …

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Drinking soup During Minor Snow, indoor heating begins to work, which means the air indoors is dry and most people might find their nose and mouth feels a bit dry. Eating glutinous rice cake In some areas of South China, people have glutinous rice cakes around Minor Snow. …

24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter
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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter
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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

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The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Eating dumplings A legend has it that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing saved many people in Henan province from a typhoid epidemic and their ears' from being frostbitten around Start of Winter. "Nourishing the winter" On the first day of Start …

24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter
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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter
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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter
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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things you may not know about Summer Solstice
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things you may not know about Major Cold
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24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice
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24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice
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24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
1 year, 1 month ago

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 7 and ends on Dec 21. Eating lamb Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow. Making sausages During Major Snow, people in southern China, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and Chongqing, …

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
1 year, 1 month ago

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 7 and ends on Dec 21. Eating lamb Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow. Making sausages During Major Snow, people in southern China, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and Chongqing, …

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow
1 year, 1 month ago

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Drinking soup During Minor Snow, indoor heating begins to work, which means the air indoors is dry and most people might find their nose and mouth feels a bit dry. Eating glutinous rice cake In some areas of South China, people have glutinous rice cakes around Minor Snow. …

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow
1 year, 1 month ago

24 Solar Terms: 7 things you may not know about Minor Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Drinking soup During Minor Snow, indoor heating begins to work, which means the air indoors is dry and most people might find their nose and mouth feels a bit dry. Eating glutinous rice cake In some areas of South China, people have glutinous rice cakes around Minor Snow. …

小雪将至：关于小雪的7个小常识
1 year, 1 month ago

小雪将至：关于小雪的7个小常识

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The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Minor Snow, the 20th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 22 and ends on Dec 6. 中国传统二十四节气的第20个节气是小雪，今年的小雪从11月22日开始，12月6日结束。 Minor Snow refers to the time when it starts to snow, mostly in China's northern areas, and the temperature continues to drop. 一起来了解一下关于小雪的7个小常识。 Light snow 小雪 An …

小雪将至：关于小雪的7个小常识
1 year, 1 month ago

小雪将至：关于小雪的7个小常识

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Minor Snow, the 20th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 22 and ends on Dec 6. 中国传统二十四节气的第20个节气是小雪，今年的小雪从11月22日开始，12月6日结束。 Minor Snow refers to the time when it starts to snow, mostly in China's northern areas, and the temperature continues to drop. 一起来了解一下关于小雪的7个小常识。 Light snow 小雪 An …

今日立冬：关于立冬的8个小常识
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今日立冬：关于立冬的8个小常识

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24 Solar Terms: 8 things you may not know about Start of Winter The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Start of Winter, the 19th solar term of the year, begins this year on Nov 8 and ends on Nov 21. 中国传统二十四节气的第19个节气是立冬，今年的立冬从11月8日开始，11月21日结束。 Start of Winter is the first solar term of winter, which means winter …

今日立冬：关于立冬的8个小常识
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今日立冬：关于立冬的8个小常识

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Precipitating the big chill
2 years, 1 month ago

Precipitating the big chill

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Residential buildings in historic Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province, covered in mist. Minor Snow, or xiaoxue, is traditionally a time of preparation and feasting as temperatures drop and winter draws near, Zhang Lei reports. It was Yuan Dynasty scholar Wu Cheng who compiled A Collective Interpretation of the Seventy-two Phenological Terms, in which he defined the laws of the traditional 24 …

24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice
3 years ago

24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, people worshipped the gods on the first day of the Winter Solstice, which also was the first day of the new year. Eating tangyuan In places such as Shanghai, people eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous …

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
3 years, 1 month ago

24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Snow, the 21st solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 7 and ends on Dec 20. Eating lamb Lamb is a favorite food for Chinese people during Major Snow. Making sausages During Major Snow, people in southern China, including Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei and Chongqing, …

24 Solar Terms: 9 things you must know about Start of Spring
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24 Solar Terms: 9 things you must know about Start of Spring

China Daily  

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. According to some experts, the 24 solar terms were used for the first time in books during the Western Han Dynasty, when the Start of Spring was set as the Spring Festival. Erecting the egg In China, it is said that the egg can be set upright on …

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