How did the ancients explain the meaning of Lesser Heat? What does Lesser Heat mean?

How did the ancients explain the meaning of Lesser Heat? What does Lesser Heat mean?
Lesser Heat is relative to Greater Heat. These two solar terms have a long history. So, what explanation did the ancients have for the meaning of Lesser Heat? What does Lesser Heat mean? The sixth month of the lunar calendar is known as the summer quarter, which means that summer is coming to an end, but the heat of the weather will not decrease at all. Shui Mo Network has prepared the do’s and don’ts for every day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar in 2022. Let’s take a look!

How did the ancients explain the meaning of Lesser Heat?

"Collected Explanations of the 72 Seasonal Changes": "June...Heat means heat, and there are three types of heat: small and large. The beginning of the month is small, and the middle of the month is large. Now the heat is still small." Heat means hot. The ancients believed that the period of Lesser Heat was not the hottest time of the year, so it was called Lesser Heat.
There is also a song about the solar terms that says: "Less Heat is not that hot, but Greater Heat is the hottest time of the year." It points out that the hottest period of the year has arrived, but it has not yet reached the extremely hot level. As the saying goes: "The heat is in the dog days." The dog days of summer in my country usually occur 28 days after the summer solstice, which is the so-called "the first dog days of summer solstice".

What does Lesser Heat mean?

This is because, although the position where the sun directly shines on the earth has moved southward from the Tropic of Cancer, it still directly shines on the Northern Hemisphere, and the heat balance in the Northern Hemisphere is still greater than the expenditure. Therefore, the temperature in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to rise for a period of time and will not change immediately as the daylight hours shorten.
From this we can infer that, although from an astronomical point of view, the daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere have shortened during the Lesser Heat, the truly hot summer has not yet arrived, so it is called the Lesser Heat.

What are the five elements on the day of Lesser Heat in 2022?

The earthly branch of the ninth day of the sixth lunar month is "You", and the corresponding five elements are "gold", so the five elements of the ninth day of the sixth lunar month are gold, and it is a gold day.
Gregorian calendar: July 7, 2022 Lunar calendar: June 9, 2022 Stem and branch: Year of the Tiger, Month of Ding Wei, Day of Xin You Five elements: Water, Wood, Year, Fire, Fire, Month, Metal, Metal, Day

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