The first frost of the earth

One of the 72 candidates. It is the second stage of the 24 solar terms, and corresponds to the period from November 12th to November 16th. The season is early winter. Jishozo itself means something like ``the earth begins to freeze.\'\' The mornings and evenings are getting colder and colder, and you can clearly feel the arrival of winter. This is also the time when frost appears.