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Today is Great Snow: the snow is at its peak, marking the beginning of mid-winter.

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20 Feb,2025

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The Great Snow solar term How much do you know?

Great Snow is the 21st of the 24 solar terms and the third solar term of winter. When the Big Dipper points to the Heavenly Stem Gui, the sun reaches a celestial longitude of 255°, and the term falls each year on the Gregorian calendar between December 6 and 8. Great Snow marks the beginning of the Zi month in the sexagenary cycle and the official start of mid-winter. Like the solar term Light Snow (Xiaoxue), Great Snow reflects trends in temperature and precipitation and embodies ancient agricultural culture’s observance of seasonal divisions.

The Three Stages of Heavy Snow

First period: The black-headed gull does not cry.

The second period: tigers begin to mate.

The third hou: the litchi shoots emerge.

 

Traditional customs

Preserved meat in heavy snow

Major Snow

There’s an old saying in Nanjing: “During Light Snow, we pickle vegetables; during Great Snow, we cure meat.” As soon as the Great Snow solar term arrives, every household busies itself pickling preserved foods.

Heavy snow seals the river

“Light snow seals the ground, heavy snow seals the rivers.” In the north, there is the natural spectacle of “a thousand miles frozen over, ten thousand miles with snow drifting,” while in the south, one can enjoy the enchanting scene of “snowflakes dancing, a sky full of silver.” By the time the solar term Great Snow arrives, the rivers are completely frozen, and people can freely go ice-skating and have fun.

Poems about Heavy Snowfall

"River Snow"

Tang Dynasty, Liu Zongyuan

A thousand mountains, no birds in flight; ten thousand paths, no human tracks.

A lone boat, an old man in a straw raincoat and hat, fishing alone in the snowy cold river.

 

"Night Snow"

Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi

Already surprised by the cold of my quilt and pillow, I then see the window bright.

At night, I know the snow is heavy; from time to time, I hear the sound of bamboo breaking.

 

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