As the saying goes, "the winter solstice is like a year". Every year, when the sun reaches 270 (the winter solstice) on1February 2 1 or 22, it begins to be the "winter solstice". Long ago, the winter solstice became an ancient and important festival. According to the test, November (the lunar calendar) was regarded as positive as far back as the Zhou Dynasty. Qin dynasty followed its system, taking the winter solstice as the beginning of the year, which was called "crossing the small year"; After the Song Dynasty, the winter solstice has become a festival for ancestor worship. For thousands of years, folk customs such as ancestor worship on the winter solstice have still been circulated. There are many famous poets in history who left famous sentences on this day.
Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote many winter solstice poems, one of which, Xiao Zhi, had a wide influence. This poem mainly described the weather, phenology and customs of the winter solstice at that time. The poet was in a foreign land, but his winter solstice things were not much different from his hometown, although he was homesick, but he was not strong. Especially the third couplet has become a couplet often posted during the winter solstice in later generations:
The weather and personnel are urging each other, and the winter solstice brings spring again.
Embroidered five lines to add weak lines, blowing six tubes of flying ash.
The shore is ready for the wax to spread, and the mountain is ready for the plum blossom.
Clouds and things are different in different countries, so teach your son to cover the cup in his hand.
And Du Fu's other poem "Winter Solstice" has a completely different mood from the previous one. At that time, in the "An Shi Rebellion", the poet fell away and missed his old capital Chang 'an, which made him feel more hurt at every festival. The poem was full of sadness:
I am a guest from year to day, and I am worried about killing people.
Jiang described me as an old man alone, and the custom of the horizon was self-dating.
After the snow, the cane and quinoa come to Danhe, and the jade dynasty comes to disperse Zichen.
My heart is broken at this time, so where can I look at Sanqin?
Bai Juyi, another great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Night of the Winter Solstice in Handan", which was also written by the poet during his long journey, fully embodying people's deep feelings of "missing their relatives during the winter solstice":
Every winter solstice in Handan post office, I am accompanied by a knee-hugging lamp.
If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about travelers.
Song Dynasty poet Lu You's poem Xinyou Winter Solstice reflects the poet's sigh of poverty in his hometown during the Winter Solstice Festival, but it can also be seen from the poem that the ancients treated the Winter Solstice as much as the New Year's Day.
Today, when it is south, our door is silent.
A poor family pays less attention to holidays, and old age is too timid to grow old.
Closely related to the winter solstice is the Jiujiu Song, which has been circulating in Beijing for hundreds of years. From the date of the winter solstice, winter will pass by by taking nine days as a unit and counting nine days in a row, until 99 * * * 81 days.
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Don't shoot in 1929; Walk on the ice in 3949;
Looking at willows along the river in 5969; The 79 River opens 89 geese;
99 plus 19, cattle are plowed everywhere.
Xiaozhi
Du Fu (Tang Dynasty)
The weather and personnel are urging each other, and the winter solstice brings spring again.
Embroidered five lines to add weak lines, blowing six tubes of flying ash.
The shore is ready for the wax to spread, and the mountain is ready for the plum blossom.
Clouds and things are different in different countries, so teach your son to cover the cup in his hand.
Winter Solstice
Du Fu (Tang Dynasty)
I am a guest from year to day, and I am worried about killing people!
Jiang described me as an old man alone, and the custom of the horizon was self-dating.
After the snow, the cane and quinoa come to Danhe, and the jade dynasty comes to disperse Zichen.
My heart is broken at this time, so where can I look at Sanqin?
Winter solstice night in Handan
(Tang) Bai Juyi
Every winter solstice in Handan post office, I am accompanied by a knee-hugging lamp.
If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about travelers.