Is the winter solstice the last solar term? Which solar term is the winter solstice?

Not the last one, followed by a slight cold. The winter solstice is the 22nd of the 24 solar terms, which means that the cold winter is coming. On this day, the sun was almost directly on the tropic of Capricorn, and the northern hemisphere had the shortest day and the longest night, and began to enter several cold days. Astronomy stipulates that this day is the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere.

24 solar terms:

Beginning of spring, Rain, Creeping, Vernal Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Xiaoshu, Dashu, beginning of autumn, Chushu, Bailu, Autumnal Equinox, Cold Dew, Chufrost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.

Beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter respectively represent the beginning of the four seasons. "Stand" means to start. The Gregorian calendar is generally around February 4th, May 5th, August 7th and165438+1October 7th every year.

Solstice in summer and Solstice in winter-this means that summer and winter have arrived. "To" means to arrive. Summer solstice and winter solstice are generally on June 2 1 day and February 22 12 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

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The origin of the twenty-four solar terms

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the sundial was measured by earth gauge in ancient China (that is, a pole was erected on the plane to measure the length of the midday sun shadow) to determine the four solar terms: vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox and winter solstice. In a year, the shortest noon solstice is the summer solstice (also known as "short day" and "short day"), and the longest is the winter solstice (also known as "long day" and "long day").

A shadow of moderate length is the vernal equinox or autumnal equinox. The Book of History in the Spring and Autumn Period recorded the solar terms. There were only four solar terms in Shang dynasty, while there were eight solar terms in Zhou dynasty.

The names of the twenty-four solar terms first appeared in Liu An's "Instructions of Huainan Tian Zi" in the Western Han Dynasty, and the concepts of Yin and Yang, four seasons, eight places, twelve degrees and twenty-four solar terms were also mentioned in the preface to Historical Records Taishi Gong. In ancient China, the lunar calendar was used to record time, and the solar calendar was used to divide the 24 solar terms of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Our ancestors called five days 1, and three days were called solar terms. The whole year was divided into 72 days out of 24 solar terms.