What is winter like on solstice?

Winter solstice, commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon solstice Festival" or "Children's Day". The solstice in winter has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

As the saying goes, "the sun shines on the winter solstice", which means that the shade will reach its peak on this day. On this day, the yang began to rise and the yin gradually decreased, which was the beginning of the earth's recovery. In many folk places, the solstice of winter is called "off-year", which means saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

In many areas, there are customs such as ancestor worship in winter solstice, and some places celebrate this festival in winter solstice. ?

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Winter solstice custom:

1, eat jiaozi in the north.

Eating jiaozi in the north also has the custom of eating dog meat and mutton from the winter solstice, because after the winter solstice, the weather enters the coldest period. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the function of strengthening yang and tonifying deficiency, and the folk still have the custom of tonic in winter solstice.

2. Eat jiaozi in the south.

It is especially popular in Jiangnan. "Tangyuan" is an essential food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "the winter solstice group".

Step 3 worship heaven

According to documents, as early as the fifth year of Emperor Ding Yuan of the Han Dynasty, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to heaven from the winter solstice, which was gradually institutionalized in later generations. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is usually presided over by the "Emperor of Heaven", which embodies China people's reverence for nature and expresses their desire to pray for good weather in the world.

The solstice in winter symbolizes the rise of cathode and the growth of everything. This "ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven" uses the past as a metaphor for the present, implying national rejuvenation and sharing happiness with the people.

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