The origins and customs of winter are as follows:

One, the origins

China's ancient folk customary winter as the beginning of winter. The Yuan Dynasty - Wu Cheng, "seventy-two months of the weather collection," said: stand, build the beginning, and said: winter, the end is also the collection of all things. It means that all the fall crops have been harvested and tanned, and collected into the storehouse, and the animals have also been hidden to prepare for hibernation. It seems that winter does not only represent the arrival of winter. To be complete, winter means the beginning of winter, the collection of all things, and the avoidance of cold.

The word winter in the meaning of the Chinese language is extremely wonderful, one is that it is the same sound with the frozen, people hear the sound of winter, that is, it will be associated with the biting north wind and the cold frost and snow; secondly, it is no silk can be the end of the word of the body to protect themselves from the cold, which means that the activities of the world tends to be rested, ready to hibernate for the winter. People can harvest or labor time should also be the end of the year, is the collection, make up for the winter and save up for the spring time.

Second, customs

1, eat dumplings

In the north of China, especially in Beijing, Tianjin people love to eat dumplings. This is because dumplings come from the saying "the time of the handover". The 30th day of the Lunar New Year is the intersection of the old year and the new year, and the beginning of winter is the intersection of the fall and winter seasons, so the dumplings at the time of the "handover" could not be avoided. Now people have gradually restored this ancient custom, the day of winter, a variety of dumplings sold very hot.

2, He winter is also known as "worship winter"

In the Han Dynasty, there is this custom. The Eastern Han Dynasty, Cui Ding, "the four people of the month order": "Winter solstice day into the wine and food, congratulations on the visit to the master of the elderly, as on the day." In the Song Dynasty, people change new clothes on this day, celebrating the exchange, as in the New Year's Day. Qing Dynasty to the day for the winter solstice, the scholarly family to congratulate the elders, and cross out to visit. Fine people, men and women, must also be more fresh clothes to greet each other, known as the "winter worship".

Since the Republic of China, the traditional customs of winter, seems to have simplified the trend. But some activities, gradually fixed, programmed, more universal. Such as winter school, worship activities, are held in the winter.

Weather changes in winter:

Winter season, the sun has reached 225 degrees of longitude, sunshine time will continue to shorten the height of the midday sun continues to decrease, the northern hemisphere to get the amount of solar radiation is less and less, but due to the surface of the second half of the stored heat still has a certain amount of energy. Because the surface of the earth still have "heat", so the early winter is usually not very cold, the real cold after the winter solstice.

Because China's north-south span, the north and south of the climate is very different from each other, this climatic significance of the winter for some areas of China, obviously late. After the winter solstice, its climate transitions from a dry fall with little rain to a rainy, cold and freezing winter climate.

In the southern region, from the winter to the snow period, there will often be wind and sunshine, warm and comfortable "little sunny spring" weather, in the folk "October little sunny spring" said, as the so-called "August warmth in September temperature, October and a little sunny spring". October there is a small sunshine spring". In the south of the early winter is generally not very cold, with the passage of time, in the winter solstice after the cold air frequently south, the temperature gradually decline.