The China's ancients how to spend the winter

Winter has arrived, it is important weatherization. Do you know the ancients how to spend the winter?

- Who forecast the arrival of winter?

Probably from the beginning of the summer, and everyone began to speculate and this winter will be a cold winter. So if it is cold this winter and when to start to be clod?
In fact, you do not have to worry about it. Thousands of years ago, our Chinese ancestors came on the law worked out. The root of the law is the famous 24 solar terms. Just this side of the weather with winter there are about six.

Beginning of Winter: from 7 or 8 November.
Light Snow: from 22 or 23 November.
Heaven Snow: from 6 - 8 Dec.
Winter Solstice: from 21 or 22 Dec.
Slight Cold: from 5 to 7 Jan. next year.
Great Cold: from 20 to 21 Jan. next year.

Have you noticed it? There are 2 with "winter" solar terms. This is two important points what the ancients summed up. One is beginning of winter; another one is beginning of cold in winter.

Weather you know Chinese or not? I would like to introdce about this 2 words.
One is "立冬". In pinying is "Lidong". Means beginning of winter; another one is "冬至". In pinying is "dongzhi". Means beginning of extremely cold. The day of "Dongzhi" with longest night.

1st & 2nd 9 days: hands cannot put out

3rd & 4th 9 days: Walking on ice

5th & 6th 9 days: go to see willow by riverside.

7th 9 days: River thaw

8th 9 days: Swallows come back

9th 9 days add another 9 days: Cattle farming


This is clearly said after the winter solstice, warm day by day!

- What is heating in Forbidden City?

Maybe you already visited Forbidden city, however have you noticed a detail? There is hard to see heating weather in bedroom, study or meeting room. In fact, 500,600 years ago, heating equipment already very advanced. It just hidden in inside these walls of the Snappers.

Snappers is called suite inside the main hall. But you certainly do not find out. These walls of snappers are empty. There is a fire underneath the foot brick road, all the way to the bottom of an oven outside porch. In winter the stove began to fire. A steady stream of hot flue and the wall along the entire hall on warm. In fact, it is now installed geothermal equipment inside many of the building. Are used in smokeless fuel - Charcoal.

Do you know what they prefer to do in winter? Next, I will introduce fun in Beijing's winter in ancient time.If today we still do these?