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When is the day before winter solstice?

There are two popular folk sayings, different customs and different sayings:

Statement 1: The night of winter solstice, because the winter solstice is sometimes in the early morning (usually around 2 pm), then the night of winter solstice is of course the night of winter solstice.

Saying 2: The night of the winter solstice is the night before the winter solstice, just like Christmas, and the night of Christmas Eve is the 24th. Many old people say that they have been living in the solstice the night before winter.

The solstice in winter has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival to worship ancestors and gods. On the winter solstice, due to the characteristics of solar terms, "the sun rises in the winter solstice and the sun rises in the heavens and the earth". The ancients thought that since the winter solstice, the sun has risen in the heavens and the earth, representing the beginning of the next cycle. This is a good day.