[Twenty-four solar terms ・ great cold] Residual snow drips with ice shoots, and the new spring sneaks back to the willows

Xinhua Chart, Beijing, January 19, 2022

Comics: The snow drops with the ice shoots, and the new spring sneaks back to the willows

"When it's cold, it's three or four, and it's freezing on the ice." At 10:39 Beijing time on January 20, the "Great Cold" festival will be ushered in. Like "Little Cold", "Great Cold" is also a solar term that indicates the degree of coldness of the weather, and is the last of the twenty-four solar terms; after the "Great Cold", there will be a new year's solar cycle.

Luo Shuwei, a historian and researcher at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, said that on January 20 or 21 of the Gregorian calendar every year, when the sun reaches 300 degrees of ecliptic longitude, the "great cold" solar term begins. Although the cold tide frequently moves south at this time, and the wind and snow make the weather cold from time to time, the earth is quietly warming, "the residual snow is dark with the ice shoots, and the new spring sneaks back to the willows." This means that the harsh winter is coming to an end and spring is coming.

Xinhua News Agency published by Shang Haichun