Xiaoxue is the 20th solar term among the 24 solar terms, and the second solar term in winter. The solar term is on November 22 or 23 of the Gregorian calendar, that is, when the sun reaches 240 ° of longitude. Light snow is the solar term reflecting precipitation and temperature. It is the solar term with high frequency of cold wave and strong cold air. The arrival of the light snow solar term means that the weather will become colder and the precipitation will increase.
Schedule of light snow in recent years
| particular year |
date |
lunar calendar |
the Chinese zodiac |
week |
| two thousand and twenty-four |
2024-11-22 |
October 22nd, Year A |
Loong |
Friday |
| two thousand and twenty-five |
2025-11-22 |
October 3rd, Yisi |
snake |
Saturday |
| two thousand and twenty-six |
2026-11-22 |
October 14th, the year of the third lunar month |
horse |
Sunday |
| two thousand and twenty-seven |
2027-11-22 |
October 25, Ding Weinian |
sheep |
Monday |
| two thousand and twenty-eight |
2028-11-22 |
The seventh day of October, the fifth lunar year |
monkey |
Wednesday |
The reason why this solar term is called light snow is that "snow" is the product of cold weather. During this solar term, the climate is not deep and the precipitation is not heavy, so "light snow" is used to describe the climate characteristics during this solar term. "Light snow" is a metaphor, which reflects the active cold current and increasing precipitation during this solar term, not a small amount of snow under this solar term.
During the light snow solar term, a relatively stable meridional circulation has been established in East Asia. There are often low pressures or troughs in Siberia. When moving eastward, there will be large-scale cold air moving southward, and there will be large-scale strong wind cooling weather in southeast China
Song of the Twenty four Solar Terms
The spring rain startles the clear valley sky in spring. The summer is full of sunshine and the summer heat is connected.
There is dew in autumn, cold in autumn, frost falling, snow in winter, snow in winter, and cold in winter.
The two festivals of each month are unchanged, with a maximum difference of one or two days.
In the first half of the year, it was 621, and in the second half of the year, it was 823.
Twenty four seasonal songs
At the beginning of spring, the sun turns and the rain flows along the river;
Waking crows cry, and the skin dries at the vernal equinox;
The Qingming Festival is busy planting wheat, and the grain rain is planting fields.
The goose feather lives in the beginning of summer, and the small full sparrow comes to the whole;
May Festival of awn seed, no cotton in summer solstice;
Light heat is not hot, but severe heat is dog days.
In the beginning of autumn, I was busy fighting indigo and drying tigers in the summer;
White dew and smoke are put on the shelf, and there is no field on the autumnal equinox;
The cold dew is not cold, and the frost has changed the sky.
The beginning of winter is October, and the snow is sealed tightly;
On the fork of the snow river, there is no boat on the winter solstice;
The mild cold enters the December, and the severe cold lasts another year.
The seventy-two seasons corresponding to the light snow are: the rainbow disappears on the day of light snow, the weather rises and falls on the fifth day, and the weather closes to winter on the fifth day.
Seventy two marquis is a calendar supplement used to guide agricultural activities in ancient China. It is compiled according to the geography, climate and some natural scenes of the Yellow River basin. It is based on five days, three seasons, six seasons and four seasons. There are 72 seasons in a year. Each weather corresponds to a phenological phenomenon, which is called "waiting". Among them, plants are supposed to sprout, blossom, and bear fruit;
