As the old saying goes, "The sun shines on the winter solstice", which means that yin will reach its peak on this day. On this day, yang will start to rise and yin will gradually decrease, which is the beginning of the earth's recovery. In many places among the people, the winter solstice is called "off-year", which means to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
In many areas, there are customs such as ancestor worship on the winter solstice, and there are still some places that celebrate the festival on the winter solstice. ?
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Winter solstice custom:
1, eat jiaozi in the north
Eating jiaozi in the north also has the custom of eating dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice, because after the winter solstice, the weather enters the coldest period. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of aphrodisiac and complement, and folk people still have the custom of tonic on the winter solstice.
2, eat dumplings in the south
It is especially popular in Jiangnan. "Tangyuan" is an essential food in the winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection", and eating tangyuan in the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group".
3. Sacrifice to Heaven
According to documents, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to heaven on the winter solstice as early as the fifth year of Emperor Yuan Ding of the Han Dynasty, and it was gradually institutionalized in the later generations. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is usually presided over by the "son of heaven", which embodies the Chinese people's feelings of reverence for nature and expresses their desire to pray for sunny weather for the whole world.
The Winter Solstice symbolizes the rising of the cathode and the growth of all things. This "worship ceremony to heaven" uses ancient times as a metaphor for the present, which means national rejuvenation and happiness with the people.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Winter Solstice