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What is the date of the Great Cold, and what is the date in 2023?

Severe cold time in 2023: 65438+1October 20th 16:29:20.

The Great Cold is the last one in 24 solar terms, which is 65438+1October 20th this year. During the severe cold, the sun reaches 300 degrees of the yellow meridian. Moreover, the cold wave frequently goes south, which is the coldest period of the year in most parts of China. Everyone should take precautions against cold. Slight cold and severe cold are two extremely cold solar terms in a year. In the north, there is a saying that "the heat is in the middle (two volts) and the cold is in the March 9th".

It means that the hottest time of the year is two volts, and the coldest time of the year is March 9. In southern China, "it's hot in dog days and cold in four or nine days", with the hottest in dog days and the coldest in four or nine days, and it's colder in four or nine days than in three or nine days. At four or nine o'clock, it was the great cold solar term, and the great cold in the southern region was colder than the slight cold.

Great cold welcomes the new year.

The three months of winter are the season when vitality lurks and everything hides. At this time, the metabolism of yin and yang in the human body is also quite slow, so at this time, you should go to bed early and get up late, don't disturb the yang easily, don't overwork everything, and keep your mind deep inside to avoid impatience and irritability. Cold solar terms often coincide with the end of the year.

Therefore, in this solar term, in addition to doing farm work according to the solar term, we have to rush about for the New Year, catch up with new year's parties, buy new year's goods, write Spring Festival couplets, prepare all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweep away dust, clean up things, prepare new year's goods by removing old cloth, pickle all kinds of sausages and bacon, or cook new year's dishes such as chicken, duck and fish. At the same time, sacrifice ancestors and various gods to pray for good weather in the coming year.