The Twenty-Four TermsThe first fifteen days of the Chinese lunar month makes the first term, namely: Beginning of Spring （立春）: usually starting from the fourth or fifth of Febrary.

And the first day is the Chinese New Year's Day or the onset of the Spring Festival; Rain Water （雨水）: from the nineteeth or twentieth of Febrary, a time when rainy seasons are setting in; Waking of Insects（惊蛰）:from the fifth or sixth of March, as the earth awakes from hibernation; Spring Equinox（春分） :from the twentieth or enty-first of March; Pure Brightness（清明）:from the fourth or fifth of April; Grain Rain（谷雨）:from the twentieth or twenty-first of April; Beginning of Summer（立夏）:from the fifth or sixth of May; Grain Full（小满）:from the twentieth or twenty-first of May; Grain in Ear（芒种）:from the fifth or sixth of June; Summer Solstice（夏至）:from the twenty-first or second of June; Slight Heat（小暑）:from the sixth or seventh of July; Great Heat （大暑）:from the twenty-second or third of July; Beginning of Autumn （立秋）:from the seventh or eighth of August; Limit of Heat（处暑）:from the twenty-third or fourth of August; White Dew（白露）:from the seventh or eighth of September; Autumnal Equinox（秋分）:from the twenty-third or fourth of September; Cold Dew （寒露）:from the eighth or nineth of October; Frost's Descent （霜降）:from the twentieth-three or fourth of October; Beginning of Winter （冬至）:from the seventh or eighth of November; Slight Snow （小雪）:from the twenty-second or third of November; Great Snow（大雪）:from the seventh or eighth of December; Slight Cold（小寒）:from the fifth or sixth of January;Great Cold （大寒）:from the twentieth or twenty-first of January which brings the 24-term cycle to an end.

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