Introduction of the Winter Solstice, also known as Sun Yat-sen, is an important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The following is a brief introduction of the winter solstice I have carefully prepared for you. Interested friends come and have a look.
Introduction to the Winter Solstice 1 Origin of the Winter Solstice
The winter solstice festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has been in existence ever since. Qing Jia Lu even says that the winter solstice is as big as a year. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of yin and yang and a blessing given by heaven. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was the "winter festival", and the government held a congratulatory ceremony called "He Dong", which was a routine holiday. There is such a record in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the Winter Solstice, a gentleman lived in peace, refused to listen to politics, chose auspicious days and then saved trouble." Therefore, on this day, the court will have a holiday and rest, the army will be on standby, the frontier fortress will be closed, business trips will be closed, relatives and friends will give each other food, visit each other, and have a "quiet" festival happily.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the winter solstice was a day to worship the ancestors. On this day, the emperor went to the suburbs to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens. On this day, the people had to worship their parents. Now there are still some places that celebrate the winter solstice.
The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago, our country had determined the winter solstice by observing the sun with Tugui, which was the earliest one of the 24 solar terms. The winter solstice is a solar term divided by astronomy, and the time is between the solar calendar1February 2 1 day and the 23rd, which is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. In ancient times, it was called "the day is short" and "the day is short". It is also a traditional festival of the Han nationality in China, and there are still many places where the custom of the Winter Solstice Festival has been held. The winter solstice is commonly known as "winter festival", "long solstice festival" and "sub-year-old".
Introduction to the Winter Solstice 2 Legend of the Winter Solstice 1: Nu Wa and jiaozi on the Winter Solstice
Legend has it that when Pangu created the world, a snake-headed woman named Nu Wa saw a hole in the sky, so she used refined colorful stone to mend it. She uses yellow mud to be a person again, and she keeps doing it all year round. On the day of the winter solstice, the climate gets cold, and the ears of loess people are always frozen off. She put a small hole in each loess person's ear, passed it with a thread, tied it at one end, and stuffed it into the loess person's mouth for the loess person to bite, so as to ensure that the ear was not frozen. Later, it evolved into the custom of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice. Every year on the Winter Solstice Festival, people wrap jiaozi in the shape of ears, which means that the loess people made of Nuwa bite the ears with strings (stuffing) so as not to freeze off.
Winter Solstice Legend 2: Winter Solstice Wonton
In the past, there was a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu in the north often harassed the frontier, and the people were restless. At that time, there were two leaders of Hun tribe and Tun tribe, which were very cruel. The people hated it, so they wrapped it into a corner with meat stuffing and called it "wonton" with the sound of "muddy" and "tun". Hate to eat, and seek to calm the war and live a peaceful life. Because wonton was originally made on the winter solstice, every family eats wonton on the winter solstice.
Legend of Winter Solstice III: Winter Solstice in jiaozi
Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Nanyang, Henan Province, has a very good medical skill. No matter what kind of incurable diseases, they can be cured quickly after his treatment. People respect him as a medical saint.
Zhang Zhongjing was originally an official in Changsha, and returned to his hometown in Henan after retiring from his old age. When I returned home, it was the cold winter. He walked to the bank of the White River and found that the river was frozen into ice. The villagers who come and go to make a living are dressed in thin clothes, pale and emaciated, and even their ears are frozen. Zhang Zhongjing saw it and felt quite unbearable in his heart.
As soon as he got home, people who came to see a doctor came one after another. Cars and horses are mixed in front of the door, all of which are rich families of village officials. Zhang Zhongjing is busy from morning till night, but he still remembers the poor villagers who have frostbitten ears. On the day of the winter solstice, he handed over his work at home to his disciples, and set up a medical shed in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang, to give medicine to the poor to treat frostbite. The name of the prescription is Quhan Jiaoer Decoction.
The practice is to first boil mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot. After cooking, pick up the mutton and herbs and chop them up, make them into "ears" with flour bags, and then cook them in a pot. People who come to beg for medicine each give a big bowl of soup and two pairs of charming ears. After eating Quhan Jiaoer Decoction, everyone felt warm all over and their ears were hot. Zhang Zhongjing gave up medicine until the 30 th of the year, and finally cured all the ears of the villagers.
The story of Zhang Zhongjing's "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction" has been circulating among the people. In order to commemorate his kindness in treating people, every winter solstice, people will eat it with Jiao Er. Jiao 'er is also called Jiao 'er, which is the jiaozi we eat now. Legend has it that eating jiaozi on the winter solstice can guarantee that the ears will not be frostbitten.
Introduction of the winter solstice 3 What to eat in the south of the winter solstice?
1, eating glutinous rice balls: Eating glutinous rice balls has been established in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the winter solstice, it is necessary to "make rice balls" or "make glutinous rice balls". These are also officially recorded in historical materials, which are called "Winter Solstice, powdered glutinous rice is a pill, named' Tangyuan'". After making dumplings, you should worship the gods and ancestors, and then eat them around the family, which is called "adding years." Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is ancient.
2. Eat roasted meat: On the winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat on the winter solstice. Among them, roasted meat is an indispensable traditional food on the table of Guangdong people during the winter solstice. The whole family prepares some bacon and sausage to eat after offering sacrifices to their ancestors, so as to pray for coming to lucky strike next year.
3, eat rice cakes: rice cakes, rice cakes, high years. Eating rice cakes is to win a "higher every year" lottery. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou always eat rice cakes on the winter solstice. The most extreme way to eat is to eat three meals a day without missing a meal. In the morning, we eat steamed rice cakes with sesame powder and white sugar, and at noon, we eat fried rice cakes with oil and winter vegetables, winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. Dinner is rice cake with mustard, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup.
Methods of health care in winter solstice
Pay attention to the mental recuperation in winter solstice health care. Because of the cold weather, some people will be unhappy because of this. For these small problems, we should not let their influence lead to ourselves. We should try our best to keep our spirits open and optimistic, find the joy of life in our daily life, and don't bother about trifles. Keep a happy mood and avoid excessive fatigue.
Pay attention to keep warm on the winter solstice, and don't wear thin stockings for beauty, which will do great harm to your health. Keep warm when you go out, especially your head and feet. Once you get cold, it will easily cause many diseases. Wear more clothes and avoid cold evil, especially pay attention to keeping your feet warm. Pay attention to your daily life, don't go out in too cold weather, wait until some sunshine, and pay attention to dressing when you go out.
In the winter solstice health care, we should also actively exercise. Cold exercise is more effective, and exercise can avoid the invasion of cold pathogens. However, the exercise intensity of the winter solstice does not need to be so strong. Appropriate exercise, such as playing Tai Chi, can give people a feeling of calmness.