Are there any customs on the solstice in winter?

The customs are the same everywhere. We have the custom of eating red bean porridge on the solstice in winter. We eat Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month and Babao porridge on the twenty-fifth of the twelfth lunar month. In the cold winter, a bowl of warm porridge can not only drive away the cold, but also nourish it.

Winter solstice is one of the 24 solar terms. After the arrival of the winter solstice, it means that the cold winter is coming. The sun shines directly on the ground, so there is less time for the sun to shine on the northern hemisphere of the earth, and winter is coming soon.

Due to the gap between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, the winter solstice season in China is generally around12,21~ 23 every year, and the night of winter solstice is very long. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, twenty-four solar terms were used to guide the agricultural season, and the solar terms were mainly divided by the average time method, so that the date between the winter solstice and the next winter solstice was called Zhongqi, and then it was called Zhongqi.