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The solar term at 285° of solar longitude.
Also known as: Minor Cold solar term
The Chinese solar term beginning when the sun reaches 285° of ecliptic longitude, around 5 January.
Marks the onset of the coldest period, at 285 degrees of ecliptic longitude.
Contexts: History, Public information
Is in most years colder than the greater cold term that follows it, an inversion the tradition acknowledges rather than corrects, and which is taken as evidence that the names were fixed before long temperature records existed.
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 285° of ecliptic longitude.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.