When is the Minor Cold solar term? What does the Minor Cold solar term represent?

When is the Minor Cold solar term? What does the Minor Cold solar term represent?
Minor Cold means the arrival of winter and is one of the 24 solar terms. So when is the Minor Cold? What does the Minor Cold solar term represent? Let’s take a look at the following content!

When is the Minor Cold solar term?

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 (the 22nd day of the winter month in the Gengzi Year (Year of the Rat), 32 days away from the Minor Cold of 2021)
Minor Cold is the 23rd solar term in the 24 solar terms, the 5th solar term in winter, marking the end of the Zi month and the beginning of the Chou month in the Ganzhi calendar. The Big Dipper points to Zi; the sun's ecliptic longitude is 285°; the solar term falls on January 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Cold air accumulates over time and becomes cold. Minor Cold means the weather is cold but not extreme. Like Major Cold, Minor Heat, Major Heat and End of Heat, it is a solar term that indicates changes in temperature. The characteristic of the Minor Cold solar term is coldness, but it is not extremely cold.

What does the Minor Cold solar term represent?

Daily life care:
We should know that Xiaohan is one of the colder solar terms in a year, so we must pay attention to keeping warm in our daily life at this time. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "coldness causes stagnation and coldness causes contraction." When the weather is cold, joints, cervical spine, and even cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are prone to disease. At this time, keeping warm is more important, especially keeping warm the shoulders, neck, feet and other parts that are prone to cold, in order to reduce the occurrence of disease. Especially for the elderly, they should pay attention to ventilation when keeping warm and closely guard against the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Mental care:
Xiaohan is in the last month of winter. At this time, we should be calm and composed in terms of mental care, not get overly emotional, maintain an optimistic attitude, be calm and composed, and don't worry about things.
Sports conditioning:
As the saying goes, "Fitness is the best in winter", the Lesser Cold is also a good time to exercise, but exercise should start after sunrise. Do some warm-up exercises before exercising, and take off your heavy winter clothes before exercising after your body is warm.
Exercise should be moderate and avoid sweating profusely in order to nourish the stomach qi; and after exercising, you should put on clothes in time to avoid the invasion of cold evil. Sports options include long-distance running, rope skipping, shuttlecock kicking, etc.

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