2, winter is the nineteenth of the twenty-four seasons, but also the first of the six winter seasons, the sun runs to 225 degrees of yellow longitude for the winter season. Winter, means that anger began to close storage, all things into the rest, collection state. Its climate is also from the autumn rain dry to rainy cold winter climate change. Chinese ancient people will be divided into three winter: the water began to ice, the ground began to freeze, pheasant into the water for mirage.

3, before and after winter, most of China's precipitation decreased significantly. Northeast region of the earth frozen, agriculture and forestry crops into the overwintering period; Jianghuai region, "three autumn" is nearly over; Jiangnan is busy planting late winter wheat, transplanting rapeseed; South China is the "winter planting wheat at the time," the best period of time.

4, in ancient times, winter is the October festival, the son of heaven to personally rate the group of ministers to meet the winter weather, in the folk have ancestor worship, drinking feasts, divining age and other customs, to seasonal delicacies to the ancestral spirit of sacrifice, and pray to heaven to give the next year of abundance. In the past, China was a farming society, and people who had worked for a year would take advantage of the day of winter to take a rest and reward the family for their hard work throughout the year. There is a proverb that says, "Winter is the best way to make up for winter, and make up for the empty mouth" is the best analogy.

5, from "winter" until "spring" are called "winter March", is the coldest time of the year. To comply with the changes in nature, after the winter should be to "raise Tibetan" as the main. Winter health should pay attention to tonic balanced, in addition to eating hot food or hot food in winter, eat some cold food and cold dishes, not only harmless to the body, but beneficial. "Winter tonic" should be based on the actual situation of targeted selection of clear tonic, warm tonic, small tonic, large tonic, not blindly "tonic".