Introduction to solar terms: What is solar terms?

Surprisingly, it was called "Qi Zhe" in ancient times, which was the third of the 24 solar terms and the beginning of the official calendar of Uzuki. The time point is between March 5 and 6 in Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 345 longitude. "Twenty-four solar terms": "February Festival ... everything is shocked and thunderous, so it is called a thorn. It's a leaving thorn. "

The time of panic is correct between March 5 and 6 of the Gregorian calendar. Some people used to say that "the time is around the first day of the second lunar month", which is wrong. The dates of lunar and solar calendars are quite different.

At this time, the weather is getting warmer and there is gradually spring thunder. Animals hide in the soil in winter and don't drink or eat, which is called "sting". "Thunder" is the day when God wakes animals with thunder. At this time, most parts of China have entered the spring ploughing season.

Twenty-four solar terms refer to 24 specific seasons in the solar calendar, which are formulated according to the change of the position of the earth on the ecliptic (that is, the orbit of the earth around the sun), and each solar term corresponds to a certain position that the earth reaches every time it runs 15 on the ecliptic.

Twenty-four solar terms are a knowledge system formed by observing the movement of the sun in a year and understanding the changing laws of the four seasons, climate and phenology in a year. It divides the sun's annual trajectory into 24 equal parts, and each equal part is a solar term, starting from beginning of spring and ending with the great cold.

The twenty-four solar terms were formulated by the ancients according to the ecliptic plane, which reflected the influence of the sun on the earth and belonged to the solar calendar category. It is an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation and embodies the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization. Twenty-four solar terms were established in ancient times, and were absorbed into taichu calendar law in Han Dynasty as a supplementary calendar to guide farming. Twenty-four solar terms are not only the time criterion promulgated by successive governments, but also the compass to guide agricultural production and to predict cold, warm, snow and rainy days in people's daily life.