Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Cut bamboo, draw loose makeup and dance green.

Cut bamboo, draw loose makeup and dance green.

Chimonanthus praecox is proud of its snow-covered trees.

On the solstice of winter, the festival at midnight is very long and the whole night is covered with frost. Cut bamboo and draw loose makeup and dance green, and wintersweet is proud of snow trees. This prose poem depicts the winter solstice.

Winter solstice, also known as solstice, winter festival, child year, etc. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. 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 in winter is one of the eight festivals in four seasons, and it is considered as a big holiday in winter. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year.