Autumn · 210° solar longitude
Frost Descends 霜降
shuāng jiàng
Dates (GMT+8)
- 2026
- 2027
Solar terms are astronomical, not lunar, so the date shifts by at most a day between years.
What it marks
The first frost. Autumn's last term, and a hard boundary in the farming year — what is not gathered now is lost.
Traditionally favours
- completion
- preservation
- protecting what you have
The tradition is blunt here: finish, store, and stop expanding.
These are the tradition’s tendencies, not guarantees — and a solar term describes a stretch of weeks, so for a specific day check today’s almanac, which reads the day’s own 宜 and 忌.