Is the winter solstice the end or the beginning of winter?

The solstice of winter is neither the beginning nor the end of winter. Beginning of winter is the beginning of winter, and winter solstice is the fourth of the six solar terms in winter, namely beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, slight cold and severe cold.

The winter solstice is also called the solstice festival, because it is the arrival of the cathode, the beginning of the spirit of the sun, and the festival when the sun travels south. Because the New Year is coming after the winter solstice, there is a saying that the winter festival is as big as the New Year, which means that the custom of the winter solstice is almost the same as that of the New Year.

Since the Middle Ages, although the winter solstice (day) is not an annual festival, people are used to taking the winter solstice as the dividing point of the solar term year, because on the day of winter solstice, the day is the shortest and the night is the longest, then the night becomes shorter, the day becomes longer, the yin disappears and the yang grows, and a new solar term year begins.

The solstice of winter is neither the beginning nor the end of winter. The winter solstice is the year with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. The ancients said that the winter solstice is: when the cathode arrives, the sun is shining, the day is short and the shadow is long, so it is called the winter solstice. After the solstice of winter, the climate in all places has entered a coldest stage, which is often said that people enter nine. There is a saying in China that it is cold and hot.