202 1 when is the winter solstice?

The winter solstice solar terms of 1 and 202 1 are 202 1+February 21day at 23: 59: 9 in Gregorian calendar, and the lunar calendar 1 1 month1Tuesday.

2. The winter solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, and it ranks first among the 24 solar terms. The traditional calendar takes five days as a period, three periods as a section or breath, and a year is divided into twelve sections and twelve gases, which are collectively called twenty-four solar terms. As for the solstice of winter, The Episode of July 72 says: The last hidden gas is extreme at this point. On the day of winter solstice, the sky is south, the days are short and the shadows are long, so it is called winter solstice.

Astronomy also regards the winter solstice as the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere. The solstice in winter marks the extreme of yin and the beginning of yang, but the temperature will continue to drop in the short term because the heat radiated from the sun to the ground is less than that radiated from the ground to the space. Therefore, the solstice of winter is also the beginning of cold. During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, it was stipulated that the day before the winter solstice was the end of the year. Because the first month of the week calendar is 1 1 month of the summer calendar, there is no difference between New Year greetings and Chinese New Year, so the solstice in winter is also called the Asian New Year, which is essentially equivalent to the Spring Festival today.