Winter Rising in 2022 is November 7th.

Monday, October 14 on the lunar calendar. Lidong is one of the twenty-four solar terms, which is intersected between November 7-8 on the Gregorian calendar. Lidong is one of the traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people. Monday, October 14th, Lunar Year of Imjin. Lidong has the custom of eating dumplings, winter swimming, and mending winter. Lidong is the first solar term of winter, representing the beginning of winter and the beginning of the Winter March.

Together with spring, summer and autumn, it is known as the "Four Lives". Spring planting, summer cultivation, autumn harvest, winter storage, everything in the spring sprouting, in the summer growth, harvest in the fall, in winter into the state of rest. Winter, means that the anger began to close storage, everything into the body to raise, collection state, grass and trees withered, dormant insects body sleep.

Introduction of Lidong

Lidong is the nineteenth of the twenty-four solar terms and the beginning of winter. The handle of the dipper points to the northwest, and the sun's yellow meridian reaches 225°, and it crosses the festival between November 7-8 on the Gregorian calendar each year. The first day of winter is the beginning of the year, and the last day of the year is the end of the year, when all things are collected. Winter, means that anger began to close storage, all things into the state of recuperation, collection. Its climate is also dry from the autumn rain to the rainy and cold winter climate transition.

Lidong represents the beginning of winter, which is one of the seasonal nodes that Chinese folk attach great importance to, spring plowing, summer plowing, autumn harvest, winter storage, winter is to enjoy the harvest, rest and recuperation season. Winter is also one of the "four seasons and eight festivals" in ancient society, is a very important festival, in some parts of China, there are ancestor worship, drinking feasts and other customs.