Winter Solstice

When does the winter solstice begin? What is the date, minutes and seconds 202 1

202 1 winter solstice is1February 2 1 day18: 02: 12, and the lunar calendar is Tuesday, the 18th of the winter month.

The winter solstice, around Gregorian calendar1February 21-23 every year, is the winter solstice solar term when the sun moves to 270 degrees of the yellow meridian.

The Winter Solstice, also known as' one-sun-born', is an important solar term in the China lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Winter Solstice is commonly known as "Counting Nine, Winter Festival", "Long Festival" and "Sub-Year". As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago, China had observed the sun with Tugui and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms.

During the winter solstice, the sun shines directly on the ground and reaches the southernmost point of the year. The sun almost shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn (also known as the winter solstice line), and the sun is most inclined to the northern hemisphere. Therefore, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in all parts of the northern hemisphere, and the farther north it is, the shorter the day is. For all parts of the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is also the day with the lowest height of the sun at noon all year round. On the winter solstice, the northern hemisphere gets the least solar radiation, about 50% less than the southern hemisphere.

After the winter solstice, the night sky stars are completely replaced by winter stars, and from today on, they will enter the ninth. At this time, the southern hemisphere is in the hot summer.

Introduction to the winter solstice

The winter solstice festival began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. According to legend, Qing Jia Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year, which 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 God to mankind.

In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was regarded as the "winter festival", and the government held a congratulatory ceremony on this day, which was called "He Dong". On this day, all government officials would have a holiday. It was recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the winter solstice, gentlemen settled down, refused to listen to politics, chose auspicious days and then saved trouble", which meant that all court officials had to rest on this day, with troops on standby, frontier fortress and closed doors.

The ancients believed that with the coming of the winter solstice, the days will get longer and the nights will get shorter, which means that spring is coming soon. Geographically speaking, on the day of the winter solstice, the position of the sun directly on the ground reaches the southernmost tip of a year, almost directly on the tropic of Capricorn.

This day is the time when the northern hemisphere gets the least sunshine, which is 50% less than that of the southern hemisphere. The days in the northern hemisphere are the shortest, and the farther north, the shorter the days will be.

The winter solstice is usually around1February 2 1 day in the solar calendar every year. The winter solstice is a traditional festival in China, and every place has its own traditional way of celebrating it. On the winter solstice in northern China, people eat jiaozi, while in the south, they have the custom of eating glutinous rice balls, while in Shandong, they have the custom of drinking mutton soup, which means driving away the cold and keeping warm. Although there are different ways to celebrate in different places, they are all the same, and the meaning is also to win a good lottery, and the days will get better and better.

The customs of the winter solstice.

Eat winter solstice meat

In ancient China, large families in the south had to sweep graves on the winter solstice, and after sweeping graves, they distributed "baked meat" to people of the same clan.

Distribution is also exquisite. In principle, distribution is carried out according to the level of education. The higher the education, the more "baked meat" families are given to show encouragement. And take special care of the elderly. If there are elderly people at home, they will be distributed according to their age. The older they are, the more "meat" they will get.

Jiujiu eliminates cold

The literati in ancient China also paid special attention to the Winter Solstice. After the Winter Solstice entered the Ninth Festival, such people as literati and literati would hold activities to eliminate the Ninth Festival. The so-called elimination of nine is that nine people who meet friends drink alcohol, and nine dishes and bowls are placed on the table. Because nine is homophonic with wine, it means eliminating cold in nine.

Pinch and freeze ears

In fact, the frozen ear here is what most people call jiaozi, and the frozen ear is the common name of jiaozi. The origin of jiaozi is that after Zhang Zhongjing, an ancient medical sage, retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, he saw that the villagers were naked and suffered from cold, and what's more, their ears were frozen and rotten, so he asked his disciples to treat mutton with some cold-expelling herbs, wrap it in a flour bag and distribute it to the villagers. After recovering from illness, the villagers loved this food so much that they rushed to imitate and eat it every winter solstice, and it has been passed down to this day.

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