What is the difference between the Great Cold Day and the Winter Solstice Day? Which day is the Great Cold Day and the Winter Solstice Day?

What is the difference between the Great Cold Day and the Winter Solstice Day? Great Cold and Winter Solstice are both winter solar terms. Let us learn more about the Great Cold and Winter Solstice.

The difference between the Great Cold Day and the Winter Solstice Day

Different time

1. The time of the Great Cold in 2018 is 11:08:58 on January 20, 2017, which is the Great Cold on the first day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2017. It is the last solar term in the 24 solar terms, when the sun reaches 300° of the ecliptic longitude, which is around January 20 of the Gregorian calendar every year.
2. The time of the winter solstice in 2018 is 06:22:38 on December 22, the 16th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar in 2018. It is the 22nd solar term in the 24 solar terms and it falls between December 21st and 23rd of the Gregorian calendar every year. On this day, the sun is directly above the Tropic of Capricorn, and the daytime is the shortest and the night is the longest in the Northern Hemisphere throughout the year.

Different phenology

1. Three signs of Great Cold: the first sign is that chickens lay eggs; the second sign is that migratory birds fly fast; the third sign is that the bellies of fish in marshes become hard. The first sign is that chicks can be hatched when the Great Cold arrives; the second sign is that migratory birds such as hawks and falcons circle in the air looking for food to replenish their body energy and resist the severe cold; the third sign is that in the last few days of the Great Cold, the water in the water area is frozen and is the solidest and thickest, so children can go out ice skating.
2. Three signs of the winter solstice: the first sign is that earthworms knot; the second sign is that the antlers of the elm shed; the third sign is that springs begin to flow. One sign is that earthworms are creatures that bend when they are yin and stretch when they are yang. Although the yang energy has grown, the yin energy is still very strong. During the winter solstice, the earthworms in the soil are still curled up, which means that the winter solstice is relatively cold. The second sign is that the ancients believed that the horns of the elk grow backwards, so they are yin, and when yang is born at the winter solstice, the elk feels that the yin energy gradually recedes and its horns fall off. The third sign is that during the winter solstice, because the yang energy begins to be born, the springs in the mountains can flow and become warm.