Evolution of winter solstice

During the evolution of winter solstice, people are urged by the day, and winter solstice brings spring.

Embroider five elements with weak lines and blow six pieces of fly ash.

The river bank seems to be waiting for the last month to pass, so that the willows can stick out their branches and take out new buds, and the mountains can break through the cold so that the plum blossoms can bloom.

Although I am in a foreign land, the scenery here is no different from my hometown, so let the children pour wine and have a drink.

? Du Fu

Yin and Zhou dynasties

According to the regulations, the day before the winter solstice is the end of the year, and the winter solstice is equivalent to the Spring Festival. In the Zhou Dynasty, winter and November were the first months, and the solstice of winter was the first year to celebrate the New Year. Since the Zhou Dynasty, there have been sacrificial activities in the Central Plains. Zhou Li:? With the arrival of winter, it was given to gods and ghosts. ? The purpose is to pray for the elimination of epidemic diseases in the country and reduce famine and death from hunger.

Han Dynasty

In the early days of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when the summer calendar was implemented, the end of the year was postponed to 65438+ February, and the sacrifice at the end of the year was separated from the winter solstice. But the winter solstice has been ranked first in the 24 solar terms. What is this called? By age? . Han Shu said? The sun is the soul of the winter solstice, and you are a dragon, so congratulations. ? After the solstice of winter, the days are getting longer and longer, and the yang is rising. This is the beginning of a solar cycle and an auspicious day, which should be celebrated.

Wei, Jin, southern and northern dynasties

What is the name of winter on the solstice? By age? People should respect their parents and elders.

Tang and song dynasties

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the winter solstice was as important as the first year. Meng Yuanshen's Dream of Tokyo, China in Southern Song Dynasty:? November winter solstice. The capital attaches great importance to this festival. Although it is in the hands of the poor, it is easier to get new clothes, prepare meals and enjoy the ancestors in a year. Officials put down their robots and celebrated the exchange, just like the Chinese New Year. ?

There are many worship activities in the winter solstice festival, including ancestor worship, parent worship and teacher worship. Sacrificing ancestors in the winter solstice is an act that people report the harvest of a year to their ancestors and pray for their blessings. The winter solstice sacrifice is a big sacrifice, and generally all people should participate.

Literati should pay homage to Confucius. Because the solstice in winter, like the Chinese New Year, is equivalent to extending the life span by one year, so Confucius statues or tablets should be hung on the solstice in winter.

On this day, students will also prepare gifts to visit their teachers and reward them for one year's education.

It began to be considered the coldest day.

The custom of counting nine became popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Emperor Liang Zongdi wrote:? It is customary to use the number of winter solstice days and 998 1 day as the end of cold. ? Keep counting? Jiujiu? Eighty-one days Nine peach blossoms? The weather will get warmer. Actually, yes? 1999 and 1999, cattle plowed the fields for 90 days. In China culture, nine is the extreme number, which is the largest, largest and longest concept. 99 is 81. The biggest but? The number of.

Flower wine

Ming Dynasty's "Scenery of the Imperial Capital" contains: On the solstice of winter, draw a plum blossom, which is one of the eighty petals. Dye a petal a day, and the petal will come out in 1999, and then the spring will be deep, saying that 99 will eliminate the cold? .

Xiejiu

? Write nine? With a strong cultural flavor, commonly used. Do you cherish the spring breeze beside the weeping willows in front of the pavilion? Or? Spring vestibule cypress wind (wind) sends incense into the room? Nine words, first double hook into a picture, starting from the ninth day. Black with a thick brush, nine strokes per word, one stroke per day, and it takes just 8 1 day to fill in these nine words. After completing a stroke every day, you should record the weather on the strokes with a fine white brush, so, one line? Write nine? Word width is also more detailed meteorological data in 99 days. ?

There is a folk saying:? No one cares if he doesn't perform well in jiaozi Bowl during the Chinese New Year. ?

? Shuodan? (Senior one) is the concept of the lunar calendar. Winter solstice? This is a solar calendar concept. Every nineteen years, the winter solstice of the solar calendar (Dan) is the first day of the lunar calendar (New Moon). This important moment is called. Sex? The starting point of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar is the solstice handed over to winter.

Mr. Zhang Yuanshan believes that the custom of eating jiaozi in winter should come from this: jiaozi has a moon-shaped skin, which symbolizes the lunar calendar. Jiaozi's stuffing is in the shape of the sun, which symbolizes the essence of the solar calendar combining yin and yang. So what is the starting point of the lunar calendar? Shuodan Winter Solstice? If you have children, you must eat jiaozi. The standard fold in the intersection should be twelve, which means December of a year.

The solstice of winter: a gentleman can see the heart of heaven and earth

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar. Most people think that it was measured more than 2,000 years ago, and some people speculate that it was measured by Zhou Gong when he measured the world. Measure the depth of the soil, find the shadow of the sun, find the ground and test for four hours? )。 This is actually a matter of course confined to the literature. When measuring time and time, our ancestors inevitably knew the winter solstice. Whether it is Stonehenge in Salisbury four thousand years ago or Liangzhu altar five or six thousand years ago, observing the winter solstice is an extremely important activity in the early history of human civilization.

Timing is the instinct of all living things and the ability of human beings. Apart from the moon and stars, the most important thing for human beings to measure time is to measure the relationship between the sun and the earth and the human body. ? The tree is eight feet long, and on the summer solstice, the scene is five inches long; On the solstice of winter, the scenery is one foot three feet five inches long. ? Wooden poles, bamboo poles and laurels are all based on eight feet, which is actually based on people's eight-foot height. Take people as the yardstick, because people will see their shadows getting shorter and shorter in summer and longer and longer in winter. As a measure, it is immediate. The shortest day is the summer solstice, and the longest day is the winter solstice.

The ancients explained that when the cathode arrived, the yang began to grow, the sun went south, the day was short, and the shadow was long. So? Winter solstice? . The scientific explanation is that the sun moves to 270 degrees of the yellow meridian, and the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn (also known as the winter to daily line). The sun is most inclined to the northern hemisphere, and of course the shadow is the longest. For residents in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the lowest sun height at noon all the year round, and it is also the day with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. What is this day called in the hearts of China's ancestors? Solstice? .

The solstice in winter is a good time to stay healthy, because? Qi started in the winter? . At this time, health preservation helps to ensure vigorous energy, prevent premature aging, and thus achieve the purpose of prolonging life. During the winter solstice, the diet should be diversified, with grains, fruits, meat and vegetables reasonably matched, and high-calcium foods appropriately selected. Because the solstice in winter is the natural transformation of Yin and Yang, at this time of transformation of Yin and Yang, China people can replenish Qi and blood by moxibustion at Shenque point, warm kidney and spleen, dispel wind and remove dampness, warm yang and rescue adverse events, warm meridians and regulate Qi and blood, which is very beneficial to the health, and may even make people sick in the second year.

Some versions also design the complex hexagrams as the cover, with the complex hexagrams as the opening remarks and the turning point symbolized by the complex hexagrams at the beginning, indicating that human beings are at a major historical turning point of survival or destruction. This is also the revelation of winter solstice to mankind. The poet Bai Juyi spent a winter solstice in Handan. He wrote a poem saying: Every winter solstice in Handan Post, I accompany the shadow in front of the knee lamp. If you want to sit at home late at night, you should also talk about travelers. ?

Division of winter solstice

1 1 mid-month

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The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar. Most people think that it was measured more than 2,000 years ago, and some people speculate that it was measured by Zhou Gong when he measured the world. Measure the depth of the soil, find the shadow of the sun, find the ground and test for four hours? )。 This is actually a matter of course confined to the literature.

Timing is the instinct of all living things and the ability of human beings. Take people as the yardstick, because people will see their shadows getting shorter and shorter in summer and longer and longer in winter. As a measure, it is immediate. The shortest day is the summer solstice, and the longest day is the winter solstice.

The ancients explained that when the cathode arrived, the yang began to grow, the sun went south, the day was short, and the shadow was long. So? Winter solstice? . The scientific explanation is that the sun moves to 270 degrees of the yellow meridian, and the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn (also known as the winter to daily line). The sun is most inclined to the northern hemisphere, and of course the shadow is the longest. For residents in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the lowest sun height at noon all the year round, and it is also the day with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. What is this day called in the hearts of China's ancestors? Solstice? .

Three stages of winter solstice

Wait, the earthworm is knotted.

Earthworms are creatures with yin bending and yang stretching. At this time, although the yang has increased, the yin is still very strong, and the earthworms in the soil are still curled up.

Second, the elk horn solution

Five days after winter, solstice? Elk horn solution? Deer belong to the mountain beast of Yang, and feel the shade and get rid of horns on the solstice in summer. Elk is a shiny animal. It feels sunny, so it can shed its horns on the solstice in winter.

Third, the spring moves.

Because of the birth of yang, the spring water in the mountain can flow at this time and feel warm.