What are the taboos in winter solstice?

Don't go out of the city, go back to your mother's house and stay up late on the winter solstice.

1, avoid leaving the city.

First of all, the winter solstice has the shortest day and the longest night. If you go out during the day, it indicates that you will go home after dark. The ancients did not advocate going out because they were afraid of the dark. Secondly, the solstice in winter is also a day of reunion and ancestor worship, so everyone will choose to stay at home and may encounter bad things when they go out.

2. avoid going back to your mother's house

The solstice in winter used to be the first day of the new year, which is equivalent to New Year's Day now. So it is taboo to go back to your mother's house. According to the custom, the second or third day of the first month is the day to return to your mother's house.

3. Avoid staying up late

In ancient times, people attached great importance to the harmony between yin and yang, and the solstice in winter was considered cloudy. If you stay up late on this day, it will lead to imbalance between yin and yang, especially for the elderly and children, and it is even more taboo to stay up late.

The solstice in winter is the first day of counting nine.

The solstice in winter is the first day of counting nine, which means the beginning of counting nine in cold weather. Usually, counting nine begins after the winter of solstice, and it is a nine every nine days until the end of "99" of 8 1 day. At this time, most parts of China have returned to the earth in spring, and the sunshine has returned, ending the cold winter, which means "99 sunny days".

In addition, we should understand that "counting nine" is not a solar term, but can be regarded as a punctuality method invented by the ancients, because in ancient farming society, there was not much farm work after winter, and the ancients invented this punctuality method to pass the time. Today, the familiar "Counting Nine Songs" is the product of people at that time, with a very long history.