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The solar term at 45° of solar longitude.
Also known as: Start of Summer solar term
The Chinese solar term beginning when the sun reaches 45° of ecliptic longitude, around 5 May.
Marks the beginning of summer in the Chinese seasonal reckoning, at 45 degrees of ecliptic longitude.
Contexts: History, Public information
Falls six weeks before the solstice, which puts the Chinese summer a season ahead of the meteorological one used in Europe: in this scheme the solstice is midsummer rather than the start of it, and the same holds for each of the four openers.
Contexts: History, Public information
A written character pair set against a division of the year, marked on a Chinese calendar at the point the sun reaches 45° of ecliptic longitude.