The winter solstice is a very important festival in China's lunar calendar, but also a traditional holiday, the time in the annual solar calendar between December 22nd or 23rd. Here is the relevant content, welcome to read to understand.
What month is the winter solstice every year
? The winter solstice falls between December 22 or 23 on the solar calendar every year:
Winter solstice time in 2017: 00:27:53 on December 22, 2017, the fifth day of the eleventh month (big) of the lunar calendar 2017
Winter solstice time in 2018: 06:22:38 on December 22, 2018, the sixteenth day of the eleventh month (big) of the lunar calendar 2018
2019 Winter Solstice Time: 12:19:18 on December 22, 2019, the twenty-seventh day of the eleventh month (small) of the lunar year 2019
2020 Winter Solstice Time: 18:02:12 on December 21, 2020, the seventh day of the eleventh month (small) of the lunar year 2020
2021 Winter Solstice Time: 23:59:09 on December 21, 2021, the year of the lunar year 2021 November (big) 18
2022 Winter Solstice Time: 05:48:01 on December 22, 2022 (small) 29th day of the 11th month of the lunar year
2023 Winter Solstice Time: 11:27:09 on December 22, 2023 (big) 11th day of the 11th month of the lunar year
2024 Winter Solstice Time: 17:20 on December 21 :20, Lunar Year 2024, November (Great) 21
Winter Solstice 2025: December 21, 23:02:48, Lunar Year 2025, November (Great) 1
The Winter Solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival", "Asian Solstice Festival", "Asian Solstice Festival" and "Winter Festival". As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China has used the earth to observe the sun to determine the winter solstice, it is the first of the twenty-four solar terms formulated one.
In our country in ancient times on the winter solstice is very important, the winter solstice is treated as a large festival, there was a "winter solstice is as big as the year," said, and there is a celebration of the winter solstice custom. The book of han said: "winter solstice yang qi up, jun dao long, so congratulations." People think: after the winter solstice, the day is longer than one day, Yang Qi rise, is the beginning of a cycle of festivals, is also an auspicious day, should be celebrated. The Book of Jin" on the record "Wei Jin winter solstice day by all the countries and bureaucrats to congratulate ...... its instrument subdivided into the first day." This shows the importance of the winter solstice in ancient times.
The winter solstice festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and continues to this day. Qingjiazhu" and even "winter solstice is as big as the year" said. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People believe that the winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang, is a blessing from heaven. The Han Dynasty took the winter solstice as the "Winter Festival", and the government should hold a congratulatory ceremony called "He Dong", and routinely take a vacation. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty has this record: "before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is quiet and quiet, the officials are not listening to the government, choose the auspicious moment and then save the matter." So this day the court up and down to take a vacation, the army on standby, the border closed, business, friends and family with food gifts, visit each other, happy to have a "quiet body" holiday.
Tang, Song period, the winter solstice is the day of sacrifice to the ancestors, the emperor on this day to the outskirts of the ceremony held in heaven, the people on this day to the parents of the elders of worship, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice this day to celebrate the festival. Ancient people believed that the winter solstice is the day when yin and yang turn into a hub, and after this day, the yin gas gradually disappears and the yang gas gradually grows. On the winter solstice, the emperor went to the Temple of Heaven to offer sacrifices to the heavens, and the next day he received congratulations from civil and military officials in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Winter Solstice Customs
? I. Eating dumplings.
An old saying goes, "October 1, the winter solstice to, families eat dumplings." Visible winter solstice to eat dumplings has been an essential custom." Zhang Zhongjing, the "Sage of Medicine", was the governor of Changsha, and when he returned to his hometown after resigning from his post, he saw that his fellow villagers were yellow and skinny, starving and cold, and many of them had their ears frozen and rotted. Therefore, he ordered his disciples to build a stove, put mutton and cold-expelling herbs in a pot to boil, and then fished out and chopped up, breaded into ear-like "delicate ear", cooked, and then distributed to the people who came to seek medicine to eat. After people ate it, their bodies were warm, their ears were hot, and their frostbitten ears were cured. Later, people learned the appearance of "Jiao Er", wrapped into food, then called "dumplings".
? The first is the "Dumplings", which is a kind of "dumpling".
The day after the winter solstice began to count nine, which is what people call "mentioning the winter count nine". Count on nine days is a nine, and then count nine days is two nine, and so on, count to "nine nine" even if "nine" end." End of nine poplar flowers bloom", then the day will be warm. After nine, the literati, engage in the so-called cold activities, choose a "nine" day, meet nine people drinking ("wine" and "nine" harmonized), the table with nine dishes and nine bowls, into the table with the "flower nine pieces of" seat, in order to take the meaning of the nine nine cold.
? The third is to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors.
Many areas in the winter solstice on this day have the custom of sacrificing to the ancestors, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice on this day to celebrate the festival. Families offer their family tree, ancestor statues and tablets to the upper hall of their homes, set up offering tables, incense burners, offerings and so on. At the same time, some places are also sacrificed to the gods of heaven and land, bowing to the gods, in order to pray for the coming year, the wind and rain, and the family and all things happy.
Winter solstice customs around the world
? The Chaoshan people eat winter festival pills on the winter solstice
Chaoshan has a "winter festival pills, a food on the New Year" folk proverb, commonly known as "add years", that although the year has not yet passed, but we have added a year. Children are most looking forward to eating this bowl of sweet pills, often wake up at night to ask the dawn? However, the sky seems to be joking with the children, always not bright, so the tide of customary "winter festival night, Luolu long, sweet pills not boiled day is not light," the nursery rhyme.
? Hakka winter solstice to eat wine
Hakka people believe that the winter solstice water flavor is the most mellow, with which the wine can be brewed for a long time, soft and refreshing, back to the sweetness of the wine, the afterburner is quite strong. Therefore, it has become a custom for Hakka people to brew wine on the winter solstice. In order to this day, the Hakka housewife often pick an auspicious day, special to the market to add winemaking equipment, the old wine altar to the stream, with yellow sand to wash away the dirt, and then let the cool spring water repeatedly rinsed, and finally placed in the shade to air-dry.
? Sichuan winter solstice to eat mutton soup
In Sichuan but the winter solstice to eat mutton soup, mutton is the winter can be called the first of the winter nourishment, experts pointed out that eating mutton can be both wind and cold, but also to make up for the body, on the general wind-cold cough, chronic bronchitis, asthma, cold, impotence, kidney deficiency, abdominal cold pain, weakness and fear of cold, weak knees and waist, yellow muscle thinness, gas and blood deficiency, after the disease.
? Hangzhou people eat rice cakes on the winter solstice
Eating rice cakes from the late Qing Dynasty until now Hangzhou people in the winter solstice are happy to eat rice cakes. In every winter solstice to do three meals of different flavors of rice cakes, the morning to eat is sesame powder mixed with sugar rice cakes, noon is oil pierogi, asparagus, shredded meat fried rice cakes, dinner is potherb, shredded meat, shredded bamboo shoots soup rice cakes. Winter solstice to eat rice cakes, grow taller every year, figure a lucky.
? Guangdong people eat roasted meat on the winter solstice
Winter solstice this day, most Cantonese people have a "dish" to eat winter solstice meat custom. Among them, roasted meat is an essential traditional food on the winter solstice table of Cantonese people. The whole family in the ancestor worship, prepare some bacon sausage to eat a meal, in order to pray for the next year can be lucky.
? Hunan winter solstice eat azuki beans sticky rice
Hunan Hubei area, in the winter solstice that day must eat azuki beans sticky rice. Glutinous rice is sweet, warm, and can nourish the body's vital energy, eaten after the body will be warm, play the role of cold, nourishing the role of winter, the most suitable for consumption in the winter. If you can use black glutinous rice, it is even better, black glutinous rice helps women nourish the body weakness caused by postpartum, is conducive to increasing milk, breastfeeding babies. According to legend, there was a man named **** Gong's son, his son was untalented and evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, and after his death, he turned into an epidemic ghost, and continued to brutalize the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people will cook and eat red beans rice on the winter solstice this day, to drive away the epidemic ghosts, disaster prevention and relief.
Winter Solstice Poems
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One nine, two nine do not go out; three nine, four nine ice walk;
five nine, six nine along the river to see the willow; seven nine river open eight nine geese come;
nine nine plus one nine, the plowing oxen all over the place.
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(Tang) Du Fu
The time and personnel day to day, the winter solstice Yang Sheng spring again.
Embroidery of five lines is added to the weak threads, and six pipes are blown to move the flying ashes.
The bank is waiting for the willow, and the mountain is ready to release the plum.
The clouds are not the same as the countryside, so I'd like to show you how to cover the cup in the palm of your hand.
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(Tang) Du Fu
Year to day long for the guest, suddenly poor sorrow mud murder!
The river describes me as alone in my old age, and the customs of the sky are close to each other.
After the snowy day, I was at the Dan Gulch, and the jade was scattered in the morning.
This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world who has been in a hurry to get out of the house, and I don't know where to find her.
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(Tang) Bai Juyi
Handan winter solstice night
Handan winter solstice in the stage, holding the knees in front of the lamp shadow with the body.
When I think of sitting at home at night, I should talk about the people who are traveling far away.
Winter Solstice Proverbs
Most of the proverbs reflect the practical experience of the working people, and they are generally passed down orally. As one of the important festivals in China, there are many winter solstice proverbs. Winter solstice proverbs are full of working people for a long time on the observation and summary of agricultural affairs, together with the winter solstice proverbs:
1, winter in the head, sold by the head of cattle; winter in the waist, freezing cats; winter in the tail, freezing ghosts.
2, clear winter solstice, the year will rain.
3, winter solstice black, New Year's sparse; winter solstice sparse, New Year's black. (Black, referring to rain)
4, winter solstice warm, cold to the middle of March; winter solstice cold, warm early tomorrow spring.
5, winter solstice strong north wind, pay attention to prevent frost.
6, winter solstice snow, summer solstice water full of rivers.
7, winter solstice in the head, freezing dead old cow; winter solstice in the middle, single coat in winter; winter solstice in the end, regret no stove.
8, the winter solstice rain star is unknown, the snow has been difficult to walk
9, the winter solstice northwesterly wind, the next year dry a spring.
10, the winter solstice south wind 100 days cloudy
11, cloudy winter solstice clear over the year
12, winter solstice at the head of the month, the big cold night and day; winter solstice in the middle of the month, the day cold and no frost; winter solstice in the end of the month, the big cold is February.
13, plowing winter solstice, a plow than a gold. Before the winter solstice plowing gold, after the winter solstice plowing iron.
14, winter solstice head, the weather is warm; winter solstice in the middle, the weather is cold; winter solstice end, cold late.
15, the winter solstice weather is clear, the next year, a hundred fruits.