Why is the winter solstice an obstacle?

1. Around the winter, the prince received the people.

The winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night in a year. On this day, Yin Qi between heaven and earth reached its peak.

In numerology, beginning of spring in 24 solar terms is usually regarded as the beginning of a year, but some sects also regard the winter solstice as the beginning of a year.

At the same time, there is a smaller saying that the winter solstice is the beginning of a year, but it is not the beginning of a dead year, but the beginning of the underworld.

In other words, every winter solstice, when the underworld changes years, ghosts will celebrate, just like July and a half, when the ghost door opens wide and the ghost returns to the world.

During the winter solstice, it is also the day with the highest mortality rate in a year, so there is a saying: "Around the winter solstice, the prince will pick up people."

This rule has also been supported by demography, and some people have left messages in our articles before.

Today, there is a local custom to regard the winter solstice as a ghost festival. For example, in some places in Qingdao, Shandong Province, people have had the custom of "ghost winter".

The so-called "ghost winter" refers to the day before solstice winter, and the day of solstice winter is called "human winter"

"Ghost Winter" is for the dead, so we should eat jiaozi in "Ghost Winter" and let the ghost come back to "have a look" and eat jiaozi.

In winter (winter solstice), people only eat sweet potato bread, because the underworld does not eat sweet potatoes, and sweet potatoes are used to remind ghosts that they can return to the underworld. ...

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The solstice in winter is a barrier.

Since ancient times, festivals have been "robbery", but all nodes of solar terms conversion need to be paid attention to, not to mention the winter solstice, a big node of yin and yang conversion.

Daoism, known as "the first of the three styles, the study of emperors", attaches great importance to the solstice in winter and the solstice in summer, and thinks that these two days are the days of yin and yang transformation between heaven and earth.

On the solstice of summer, the sun is the spirit of heaven and earth, while the yin is gradually budding. The solstice of winter is the time when Yin Qi reached its peak and Yang Qi was born, that is, the so-called "Six Yin flourishes and one Yang returns, which is called the solstice of winter."