When is the solstice in winter?

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in China lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival. The time is between February 22 and 23 of the solar calendar every year. The following is the relevant content, welcome to read and understand.

When is the date of the winter solstice every year? The date of the winter solstice is between February 22nd and 23rd of the Gregorian calendar 65438+ every year:

20 17 winter solstice time: 10:27:53 February 22nd, the fifth day of November (July).

Winter solstice time: February 22nd, 20 18: 16:22:38, lunar calendar 1 1 month/6, 20 18.

Winter solstice time 20 19: 65438+February 22nd 12: 19: 18, lunar calendar10/27/2019.

Winter solstice time in 2020: 65438+February 2 1, 18: 02: 12, lunar calendar in 20201/the seventh day of the month.

202 1 winter solstice time: 65438+February 2 1 23:59:09, lunar calendar 202 1 November 18th.

Winter solstice time in 2022:15: 48: 01February 22nd, the 29th day of November of the lunar calendar.

Winter solstice time in 2023: 65438+February 22nd 1 1:27:09, November of the lunar calendar in 2023.

Winter solstice time in 2024: 65438+February 2 1, 17:20:20, lunar calendar in 20241/month 2 1 day.

Winter solstice in 2025: 65438+February 2 1 23:02:48, lunar calendar in 2025 1 1 the first day of the month.

The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival". As early as 2500 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, China had determined the winter solstice by observing the sun through the soil return, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms.

In ancient China, people attached great importance to the winter solstice and thought it was a grand festival. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate it. "Han Shu" said: "The sun shines on the winter solstice, and you are long, so congratulations." People think that after the winter solstice, the days become longer and longer and the sun rises. This is the beginning of a solar cycle and an auspicious day, which should be celebrated. The Book of Jin records: "On the winter solstice of Wei and Jin Dynasties, people from all over the world celebrated ... its appearance was not as good as that of Zheng Dan." Explain the ancient emphasis on the winter solstice.

The Winter Solstice Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has been passed down to this day. Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People think that the winter solstice is a natural transformation of Yin and Yang and a blessing from heaven. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was the "Winter Festival", and the government held a congratulatory ceremony called "He Dong", which was a routine festival. There is such a record in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the winter solstice, a gentleman was prepared for danger in times of peace, refused to listen to politics, and chose an auspicious day to save trouble." So on this day, the imperial court had a holiday, the army was on standby, the frontier fortress was closed, the business trip was closed, relatives and friends sent meals to each other, visited each other, and had a "quiet" holiday happily.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the solstice in winter was the day of ancestor worship. On this day, the emperor went to the suburbs to hold a ceremony to worship heaven. On this day, people must worship their parents. There are still some places to celebrate the winter solstice. The ancients believed that the solstice of winter was the day when yin and yang alternated. After this day, the yin gradually disappeared and the yang gradually grew. On the solstice of winter, the emperor went to the Temple of Heaven to worship heaven, and was greeted by civil and military officials in the Hall of Supreme Harmony the next day.

Winter solstice custom 1. Eat jiaozi.

As the saying goes, "On October 1st, the solstice of winter comes, and every household eats jiaozi." It can be seen that it is an essential custom to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", was a magistrate in Changsha. After resigning from his post and returning to his hometown, he saw that the villagers were sallow and emaciated, hungry and cold, and many people's ears were frozen. So, he ordered his disciples to set up a stove, put mutton and herbs for removing cold in a pot, then take them out and chop them up, make them into ear-shaped "charming ears" with bread, and give them to those who came to ask for medicine after cooking. After eating, people are warm all over, their ears are hot, and their frostbitten ears are cured. Later generations learned to look like Joule, wrapped it up and made it into food, so it was called "jiaozi".

Second, 99 eliminate cold.

On the second day after beginning of winter, the solstice began to count nine, which is what people call "beginning of winter counts nine". 9 days is 19, 9 days is 29, and so on. The number "99" is the end of "99". "Nine flowers bloom", then it will be warm. After entering the ninth year, the literati engaged in the so-called activities to reduce the cold, and chose a "ninth day", when nine people drank ("wine" is homophonic with "nine"), and nine dishes and bowls were served on the table, and those who finished the table used "nine flowers" seats to get the meaning of reducing the cold in the ninth year.

Third, offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors.

Many areas have the custom of offering sacrifices to the heavens and ancestors from the winter solstice, and some places celebrate this festival from the winter solstice. Every family provides genealogy, ancestor statues, memorial tablets, etc. In the upper hall of the home, an altar, incense burners and offerings are placed. In some places, while offering sacrifices to ancestors, they also offer sacrifices to gods, land gods and deities, so as to make the next year's weather favorable and the family prosperous.

Counting the customs of winter solstice in various places Chaoshan people eat winter festival pills from winter solstice to Sunday.

In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "Take a pill for the winter festival, and you will celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding a year", which means that although the New Year has not passed, everyone has added a year. Children are most eager to eat this bowl of sweet pills, and often wake up at night and ask the morning? However, the sky seems to be joking with the children, and it is always not bright. Therefore, there is a nursery rhyme of "winter festival night, long years, fragrant pills are not cooked".

Hakka people eat wine during the solar term from winter to solar term.

Hakkas believe that water is the most mellow in winter solstice, and the wine brewed with it can last for a long time, which is soft and refreshing, sweet and refreshing, and has sufficient stamina. Therefore, making wine on the solstice in winter has become a custom of Hakkas. For this day, Hakka housewives often choose an auspicious day to buy wine-making equipment in the market, move the aged jars to a stream, wash away the dirt with fine yellow sand, rinse them repeatedly with cool spring water, and finally dry them in the shade.

Sichuan dongzhimi mutton soup

In Sichuan, it is the solstice to eat mutton soup in winter, and mutton is the first tonic in winter. Experts pointed out that eating mutton can not only drive away cold, but also tonify the body, and is effective for colds and coughs, chronic tracheitis, asthma due to deficiency of cold, impotence due to kidney deficiency, abdominal cold pain, physical weakness and chills, soreness of waist and knees, sallow complexion and emaciation, deficiency of both qi and blood, and after illness.

People in Hangzhou eat rice cakes on the solstice in winter.

Eating rice cakes From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the first day of the Republic of China until now, people in Hangzhou like to eat rice cakes on the solstice of winter. On the solstice of winter, we will make three kinds of rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes mixed with sesame powder and sugar. At noon, we eat fried rice cakes with pickles, winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. For dinner, we have mustard rice cake, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup. Eating rice cakes on the solstice of winter is good luck to get old.

Cantonese people eat barbecue on the solstice in winter.

On the solstice of winter, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat from the solstice of winter. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. The whole family prepared some bacon and sausages to eat after paying homage to their ancestors, hoping to come to lucky strike next year.

Eat red beans and glutinous rice from winter solstice in Hunan.

In the area around the two lakes, red beans and glutinous rice must be eaten on the solstice in winter. Glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can nourish healthy qi. After eating, it will cause fever all over the body and play a role in keeping out the cold and nourishing. Best for winter. It would be better if black glutinous rice could be used. Black glutinous rice is helpful for women to nourish postpartum weakness, increase milk and breastfeed babies. According to legend, there was a man named Gong. His son was incompetent and evil. He died on the Winter Solstice. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

The song of winter in 1999 and the poem of solstice in 1999

1929 did not shoot; Walking on the ice in 3949;

5969 see willows along the river; 79 rivers open 89 geese;

99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere.

Ash Ketchum

Du Fu (Tang Dynasty)

The days and personnel change rapidly every day, and then the winter solstice, after the winter solstice, after the weather gets warmer, spring comes back.

Embroider five elements with weak lines and blow six tubes of dynamic fly ash.

The river bank seems to be waiting for the last month to pass, so that the willows can stick out their branches and take out new buds, and the mountains can break through the cold so that the plum blossoms can bloom.

Although I am in a foreign land, the scenery here is no different from my hometown, so let the children pour wine and have a drink.

Winter solstice

Du Fu (Tang Dynasty)

I'm a guest all year round, and I'm worried about killing people!

Jiang Shang described me as a lonely old man, and the custom of Horizon is self-dating.

After the snow, the staff came to Danhe, and the Jade Dynasty came to disperse Chen Zi.

My heart is broken at this time, where can I see Sanqin?

Solstice night in winter in Handan

(Tang) Bai Juyi

Every winter solstice, I am accompanied by the shadow in front of the knee lamp.

If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about travelers.

Most winter solstice proverbs reflect the practical experience of working people, and they are usually handed down orally. As one of the most important solar terms in China, there are naturally many proverbs about the winter solstice. The proverbs in Solstice of Winter are full of observations and summaries of working people on long-term farming life. Let's look at the proverb about the winter solstice:

1, in the first place in winter, the cattle released were sold; Winter is at the waist, freezing cats to death; It's winter, and it's freezing.

2, sunny winter solstice, it rains every year.

3. It is dark from winter to the sun, and the New Year is rare; The winter solstice is sparse, and the New Year is black. (Black, meaning rain)

4. The solstice in winter is hot and cold until mid-March; The solstice in winter is very cold, and spring is warm very early.

5, the north wind is strong from winter to the sun, pay attention to frost prevention.

6. It snows on the solstice in winter, and the river overflows on the solstice in summer.

7, winter to the sun, freezing the old cow; Winter solstice in the middle, winter alone; The solstice of winter is over, but unfortunately there is no stove.

8, the winter solstice is unknown, and it is difficult to walk with heavy snow.

9. The northwest wind blows from winter to Sunday, and it will be dry in the spring next year.

10, winter solstice, the south wind cloudy for one hundred days.

1 1, celebrate the New Year on cloudy days.

12, the winter solstice is at the beginning of the month, and the severe cold has passed; Winter solstice in the middle of the month, cold and frost-free; The solstice of winter is at the end of the month, and the severe cold is in February.

13, plowing in the winter of solstice, one plow is more than one gold. Plow gold before the winter solstice and iron after the winter solstice.

14, winter solstice, warm weather; On the solstice of winter, the weather is cold; Towards the end of the solstice winter, it gets cold late.

15, the winter solstice is sunny and the coming year will be fruitful.