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The year divided into twenty-four fifteen-degree steps.
Also known as: Solar terms, Jieqi
The Chinese division of the solar year into twenty-four terms, each beginning when the sun reaches a multiple of fifteen degrees of ecliptic longitude.
Divides the solar year into twenty-four intervals of fifteen degrees of the sun's apparent motion.
Contexts: History, Public information
Is solar rather than lunar, which is the fact that resolves most confusion about the Chinese calendar: the lunar months slide against the seasons and the solar terms do not, so a farmer needing to know when to sow reads the terms and not the month.
Contexts: History, Public information
Was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2016, and remains in ordinary use: the terms are printed on Chinese wall calendars and several are marked in the media each year.
Contexts: History, Public information
A ring of twenty-four written labels set at equal intervals around a circle standing for the year, with the solstices and equinoxes at the quarter points.