When is the solstice of winter in the lunar calendar?

The winter solstice in 2023 is 65438+February 22, 2023, and the tenth day of November of the lunar calendar.

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. 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 "counting nine" means taking nine days as a unit, counting from the winter of solstice.

It's called "Nine", and after nine "Nine", it's exactly eighty-one, which means "Out of Nine" or "Out of Nine". From "September 19th" to "September 9th", the cold winter turned into a warm spring. 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".

The meaning of winter solstice

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". The moral of winter solstice is that the cold winter is coming, so people start counting to nine to calculate the cold weather.

In winter solstice, although the sun is low and the days are short, the temperature in winter solstice is not the lowest in meteorology. In fact, because there is still "accumulated heat" on the surface, it is usually not very cold before the winter solstice, and the real cold is after the winter solstice. Due to the great differences in climate in different parts of China, the climatic characteristics of this day are obviously late for most parts of China.