What is the solar term of 65438+February 22nd?

65438+February 22nd is the solar term in China, and the customs of this day are colorful everywhere. In some places, ancestors are worshipped to sweep graves. In some places, married daughters return to their parents' homes on this day. In other places, people are used to eating holiday foods, such as mutton and jiaozi. Then let me introduce you to the winter solstice customs in various places.

The custom of winter solstice in Shandong

Shandong winter solstice folk customs are rich in content and diverse in forms. On the occasion of the winter solstice festival, a considerable number of Shandong people will eat jiaozi or wonton, and some people will drink. It is said that drinking is to warm the body, and eating jiaozi is afraid of freezing the ears, because "jiaozi" and "rubber ears" are homophonic. In some areas of Shandong, it is common for students to worship their teachers and the younger generation to worship their elders, and farmers have the custom of worshipping their ancestors.

Linyi, Zoucheng and Xintai have the custom of "steaming winter". Linyi whole grains steamed bread, Zoucheng steamed bread. It is said that steaming winter is to pray for wind in the coming year. The folk song says, "Steaming in winter, steaming in winter, there is wind in the field." In ancient times, steaming winter was to celebrate the sun solstice. After the winter solstice, the sun was born, just as Du Fu wrote in his poem, "The sun was born in the winter solstice, and spring came again."

In some areas of Shandong, people make rice balls with glutinous rice flour, which are called Tuanjiezi or Winter Solstice Ball, or "Tangyuan", symbolizing reunion. Bobo and steamed buns are actually the evolution of reunion.

In ancient Jinan, Jiyang and other places, the government held celebrations on the occasion of the winter solstice, just as literati also presented greeting cards to each other. The scholar-bureaucrat class in Juxian held a reception, which was called the "Cold Elimination Meeting" and drew a "Cold Elimination Map". Zoucheng painted "Nine Nine Paintings", at the same time, relatives and friends gave each other warm utensils, while the children of the farmers played the game of "occupying the village" and "playing tiles". Teenagers began to learn martial arts, calling it "watching winter", but they didn't have the habit of congratulating each other. It is said that Mencius died on the winter solstice, and the villagers were very sad, so they canceled the ceremony to celebrate the winter solstice.

Linyi folk believe that the solstice in winter is the day to send warm clothes and strengthen houses for the victims. Every household cuts clothes with fire paper, burns them in front of the tomb, and adds soil. Juxian county worships ancestors in the ancestral temple, and the ceremony is very grand.

Laoshan old custom, winter solstice is divided into two days, the first day is called "Ghost Festival Winter", which is the place to worship ancestors and eat jiaozi; The next day is called "human winter".

Women in Linyi, Licheng and Linqu are used to going back to their parents' homes. Qingyun and Emperor Wu began to cellar vegetables from this day, and women began to sew. Women in Qufu make cloth shoes before the festival and give them to their uncles and aunts on the solstice in winter. Zoucheng began to build cellars, weave mats and spin yarns.

Rizhao folklore: If on the solstice in winter, the clouds greet the sunrise and the clouds greet the sunset, the coming year will be very good. According to the date of winter solstice, Jimo people test the warmth and coldness of winter in the beginning, middle or end of the month. The folk song says: "Frozen cows in winter, warm in winter, frozen ghosts in winter." Yanzhou city restored the oven from winter solstice to pray for a long life.