When is the Minor Cold in the 2020 Lunar Calendar? What is the ninth day of the ninth month in 2020?

The Minor Cold is the penultimate solar term of the traditional 24 solar terms, after the Winter Solstice. This also shows that the lunar calendar has entered the "Nine Days of Cold" during the Minor Cold solar term. So when is the Minor Cold in the lunar calendar in 2020? How many days of cold are we?

When is the Minor Cold in the 2020 Lunar Calendar?

The Minor Cold is the 23rd of the traditional 24 solar terms and the 5th solar term in winter. The previous solar term is the Winter Solstice.

The Minor Cold solar term usually falls on January 5th to 7th of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the 2020 lunar calendar, the Minor Cold solar term falls on the Jichou month and Guichou day, which is November 22nd of the lunar calendar 2020, January 5th, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, Tuesday, Capricorn.

According to the old almanac, the specific start time of the Great Cold in 2020 is 11:22:24.

There are three signs of the Minor Cold: "The wild geese fly north, the magpies begin to nest, and the pheasants begin to crow."

What is the day of the 9th day of the Minor Cold in 2020?

The Minor Cold in 2020 is the seventh day of the "Second Nine". The first day of the "Second Nine" is December 30, 2020.

Entering the Nine Days and counting the Nine Days is a traditional folk custom, which is used to calculate the number of cold days. There is also a corresponding counting song: Don’t go out on the first and second nine days; walk on the ice on the third and fourth nine days; watch the willows along the river on the fifth and sixth nine days; the river blooms on the seventh nine days, and the swallows come on the eighth nine days; the ninth nine plus the tenth nine days, oxen are everywhere.

The nine-day count starts from the winter solstice, and every nine days counts as one "nine", for a total of nine nines. So the nine-day count in 2020 starts from the winter solstice, which is December 21, 2020.

Proverbs related to Minor Cold

Lesser Cold and Greater Cold, frozen into a ball.

Lesser Cold and Greater Cold, it’s so cold that things freeze into ice.

When chickens lay eggs in the coldest days of winter, keeping the chicken house warm is key.

If Xiaohan is not cold, Qingming will be a quagmire.

The Lesser Cold and the Greater Cold are very cold, but the weather will be warm in the spring of the following year.

The Lesser Cold is warm, and the Beginning of Spring snows.

It rains during the Lesser Cold, and the rain freezes the rice seedlings.

The rain in Xiaohan is drizzling, and the rain in Jingzhe freezes the rice seedlings to death.

The weather is hot during the Lesser Cold, let alone the Greater Cold.

Lesser Cold is cold, while Jingzhe is warm.

During the Lesser Cold and Greater Cold, water turns into ice.

Lesser Cold is not cold, but Greater Cold is cold.

There is no snow in Lesser Cold and Greater Cold, but the fields crack in Lesser Heat and Greater Heat.

If there is no rain in Lesser Cold, there will be drought in Lesser Heat.

There is heavy snow every year, either in the 39th or 49th day of the coldest period of the year.

Lesser Cold is better than Greater Cold and is not rare.

The Lesser Cold Festival lasts for the fifteenth day, and the seventh or eighth day is the Sanjiu Day.

Lesser Cold is better than Greater Cold and is not rare.

If the rivers are not blocked during the 39th day of the lunar calendar, there will be many hailstorms in the next year.

There is heavy snow every year, either in the 39th or 49th day of the coldest period of the year.