What are the four solar terms of Spring Rain? Why is it said that a spring rain brings a warm

The Beginning of Spring is the first of the 24 solar terms. Li means "beginning". Spring represents warmth and growth. The Spring Equinox is an important season for farming. In daily life, people know that spring rain is as precious as oil. What does this mean exactly? Do you know?

Contents of this article

1. Which four solar terms does the Spring Rain Awakens Spring refer to?

2. What does it mean that spring rain is as precious as oil?

3. Why do we say that a spring rain brings warmth?

Which four solar terms does the Spring Rain Awakens Spring refer to?

Spring Rain Awakens Spring refers to the four solar terms of Lichun, Yushui, Jingzhe, and Chunfen. Solar terms are specific festivals in the Ganzhi calendar that indicate the changes in natural rhythms and establish the "Twelve Months" (monthly order). Lichun is the first of the 24 solar terms. Li means "beginning". Spring represents warmth and growth. Lichun is when the sun reaches 315° of the ecliptic longitude, and it falls on February 3-5 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Rainwater means the beginning of precipitation, with the amount of rainfall gradually increasing. It usually starts on February 18 or 19, when the sun reaches 330° of the ecliptic longitude. When entering the Rainwater solar term, preparations for spring sowing need to be made.

Jingzhe marks the beginning of mid-spring, and occurs when the sun reaches 345° of the ecliptic longitude on March 5 or 6 every year.

The Spring Equinox is an important time for farming. The sun shines directly on the earth's equator, and the day and night are almost equal. The sun reaches 0 degrees of ecliptic longitude, and the spring equinox falls on March 19-22 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

What does spring rain mean?

1. Spring rain is as precious as oil. Explanation: The drizzle in spring is as precious as oil, which means that spring rain is precious and rare.

2. From the Jingde Chuandeng Lu (Record of the Transmission of the Lamp) written by Daoyuan Shi of the Song Dynasty and the Spring Rain written by Xie Jin of the Ming Dynasty. Xie Jin was short and good at debate, good at couplets, quick-witted and straightforward. It is said that when he was young, he fell in the rain, which made passers-by laugh. He improvised a poem: "Spring rain is as precious as oil, and it flows all over the street. Xie Jin fell down, and a group of cows laughed to death."

3. The reason why spring rain is as precious as oil: Spring is followed by two rainy seasons, autumn and winter. If there is little rainfall in autumn and winter, the soil moisture conditions are not good, which often leads to consecutive droughts in winter and spring.

Why do we say that a spring rain brings warmth?

1. In spring, as the sun's radiation in the northern hemisphere gradually increases, the warm air over the Pacific Ocean stretches northwestward. When the warm air mass advances northward and slides at the northern cold air boundary, rain is produced. During the sliding process, the cold air is pushed northward at the same time. As a result, the warm air often occupies the ground that was originally occupied by the cold air. Therefore, before the warm air arrives, these places often have a spring rain.

2. After the rain, the weather turns warmer under the control of warm air. When the cold front passes, the area is controlled by the cold air and the weather becomes colder for one or two days. But after a few days, this group of cold air absorbs a lot of solar heat, and is affected by the warmer ground, which raises its temperature and gradually turns into warm air. Therefore, people always feel that after the spring rain, as long as the weather is clear, it is generally warm. This is the reason why people feel that "a spring rain brings a warm weather".