When is the solstice in the winter of 2022?

Introduction: Winter solstice, also known as solstice, winter festival and Asian New Year, has dual connotations of nature and humanity. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk ancestor worship festival in China. The solstice of winter represents the coming of winter. It marks the rebirth of the sun and the round-trip movement of the sun into a new cycle. This is an auspicious day and should be celebrated. So when is the date of the winter solstice in 2022? When is the solstice in the winter of 2022? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao!

When is the Spring Festival in 2022?

The winter solstice in 2022 is 65438+February 22, 2022, and the lunar calendar 1 1 month 29.

After the winter solstice, the climate in all parts of China will enter a coldest stage, which is often called "ninth year cold" and "ninth year cold". The so-called "number nine" refers to nine days from the date of winter solstice, which is called "nine". After nine nines, it happens to be 8 1 day, whether it is "nine out" or "nine out". From "September 19th" to "September 9th", the cold winter turned into a warm spring.

The winter solstice begins to count to nine, and the winter solstice becomes the first day to count to nine. As for "Counting Nine", there is a folk song that goes like this: "Don't do it in September, walk on the ice in March and April, watch the willows along the river in May and June, open the river in July and September, geese come in August and September, and cows go everywhere in September and September."

Since the direct point of the sun returns to the north in winter to the future, it shows that the sun is reborn and the sun moves back and forth into a new cycle. Since then, the height of the sun has risen and the days have increased day by day, so the spring water in the mountains can flow and be warm at this time.

Traditional customs of winter solstice

1, eat dumplings

Eating dumplings is a traditional custom from winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an indispensable food in winter solstice, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is also called "the solstice in winter". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older".

Step 2 eat sweet potato soup

In the traditional customs of Ningbo, sweet potato soup is one of the must-eat foods in winter solstice. "Fan" and "Fan" are homophones. In Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the solstice in winter means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year. Tang Guo is similar to jiaozi, much smaller and without stuffing. Tang Guo is also called jiaozi, which means "reunion" and "perfection". There is also a saying in old Ningbo that "you are one year older after eating soup". People in Ningbo are used to adding wine to sweet potato soup. In Ningbo dialect, wine-making is also called "pulp board", and "pulp" is homophonic with "sheng" in Ningbo dialect, taking its lewdness of "high luck" and "high happiness"

Step 3 Eat jiaozi

In many parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. North China will eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi means "dispelling cold". Up to now, there is a folk proverb that "on the solstice of winter, jiaozi bowls are improper and nobody cares about frozen ears".

Step 4 draw nine

The so-called Figure 9 is actually a graph to calculate the warm date from winter to the following spring. In the Ming Dynasty, "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" contained: "From winter to the sun, draw a plum flower, one in eighty petals. Dye one petal a day, and 99 petals will come out, then the spring will be deep, saying that 99 will eliminate the cold. " There are three patterns in "99 Cold Map", namely characters, circles and plum blossoms.