The ancient winter solstice festival began on New Year's Day.

On February 22, 65438, people will welcome the annual winter solstice solar term. In China, the winter solstice is also called the winter festival and the winter solstice festival, which shows that it is not only a solar term, but also a festival. Celebrating the Winter Solstice Festival is a long tradition in China. The so-called New Year's Eve of ancient ancestors started from the winter solstice, so let me introduce it to you.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago, the sages had measured the winter solstice with a soil gauge. The custom of celebrating the Winter Solstice Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, prevailed in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has been inherited ever since. Ting Anne Lu said that the solstice in winter is very big all year round.

More ancient ancestors, New Year's Day started from the winter solstice. Song Dynasty's Tokyo Dream records that it is easier to get new clothes, prepare meals and enjoy ancestor worship. Ban Gu's Hanshu also records that the sun is an elf from winter to sunrise and the monarch is a dragon, so congratulations. This shows that the ancient winter solstice festival is very important. It is not only an ancestor worship, but also an auspicious day given by God, which should be celebrated.

The winter solstice was a legal holiday in ancient times. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty wrote: Around the Winter Solstice, gentlemen lived quietly, and hundreds of officials refused to listen to politics. They chose auspicious days and then saved trouble. On this day, the emperor will give his ministers a holiday, the army will stand by, the frontier fortress will be closed, and business travel will be closed. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, every winter solstice, officials of the emperor and the poor people meditated, and relatives and friends would give each other food and visit each other to celebrate the winter solstice.

Celebrating the winter solstice also has an important content, that is, offering sacrifices to the gods in the sky and ancestors of past dynasties. People either go to Taoist temples, or ask Taoist priests at home to set up altars, so that everyone can wash and change clothes and spend this important first day, the first festival of the year. Their etiquette is grand and exquisite, and their purpose is to pray for good luck all the year round with the aura of heaven and earth.