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The solar term at 15° of solar longitude.
Also known as: Pure Brightness solar term
The Chinese solar term beginning when the sun reaches 15° of ecliptic longitude, around 4 April.
Marks a term of clear weather and new growth, at 15 degrees of ecliptic longitude.
Contexts: History, Public information
Is the only solar term that is also a public holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: families visit and sweep ancestral graves on the day, and the festival has attached itself so completely to the term that the two names are used interchangeably.
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 15° of ecliptic longitude.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.