today is the small cold in 24 solar terms. Which one do you think is cold? Literally speaking, the big cold should be colder than the small one, but the old saying is that "the small cold is better than the big cold, which is not rare". So which solar term is colder? Let's get to know.
Which is the coldness of small cold or big cold
Statement 1
Xiaohan, from January 5 to 7 in the lunar calendar, marks a degree of cold in winter. Great cold, as the name implies, means extremely cold, the last of the 24 solar terms. The mild cold and severe cold reflect the degree of cold in winter. We understand literally that the solar term of severe cold should be colder than that of mild cold.
Statement two
But in our country, there is a saying that "cold is in September", and "September" happens to be in the period of the small cold solar term, so it is normal that the small cold is colder than the big one. For the people in the Yellow River Basin, the birthplace of the solar term, according to the meteorological records over the years, in most cases, it's still a little colder than a big cold, only a small part of the area, and the temperature of the big cold is the lowest in the whole year.
The third statement is that although the cold is divided into different sizes, in fact, the small cold and the big cold are usually not big or small. In addition, China is a country with vast territory and abundant resources. The conclusion of which is colder is different in different regions. For example, in Guangdong Province, the low cold solar term is slightly warmer than the high cold solar term, but the difference is not obvious, with the average temperature of 13.6 ℃ and 13.5 ℃ respectively.
On the order of minor and severe cold
There is an old saying: "little cold is better than big cold, which is not rare." many people think that the order of these two solar terms is wrong? There are two explanations for this problem. One is that the ancients thought that "the extremes of things must be reversed". They thought that the alternation of cold and summer is the rapid warming after cold. If the first big cold and then the small cold, they would not find the feeling of "the coldest and then the warmest" literally. Another way of saying is that the cold in winter corresponds to the heat in summer, so it is called the cold. And the cold in winter just corresponds to the summer heat, so it is called the cold.