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The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar term
Solar term

A solar term is one of 24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon....
s. Dąshu (pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
) or Taisho (romaji
Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese or is the use of the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language. Japanese is normally written in logogram borrowed from Chinese and syllabary scripts ....
) is the 12th solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 120° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 135°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 120°. In the Gregorian calendar
Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
, it usually begins around July 22 (July 23 East Asia time) and ends around August 7.









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The traditional East Asian calendars divide a year into 24 solar term
Solar term

A solar term is one of 24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon....
s. Dąshu (pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
) or Taisho (romaji
Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese or is the use of the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language. Japanese is normally written in logogram borrowed from Chinese and syllabary scripts ....
) is the 12th solar term. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 120° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 135°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 120°. In the Gregorian calendar
Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
, it usually begins around July 22 (July 23 East Asia time) and ends around August 7.