Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - How many solar terms are there after Tomb-Sweeping Day?

How many solar terms are there after Tomb-Sweeping Day?

There is a solar term of 19 after Tomb-Sweeping Day.

There are 24 solar terms in a year.

The 24 solar terms are: beginning of spring, Rain, Sting, Spring Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer, Great Summer, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, Millennium, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.

Solar terms are a valuable scientific heritage created by Chinese ancestors after thousands of years of practice. They are tools to reflect the changes of weather, climate and phenology and master the farming season, and affect the daily necessities of thousands of families.

24 solar terms:

There is no order in the arrangement of 24 solar terms in a year. Every15th day is a solar term.

It is formulated according to the change of the earth's position on the ecliptic (that is, the earth's orbit 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.