When is the solar term of winter solstice in Gregorian calendar?

The winter solstice solar term is generally around 65438+February 22nd every year.

Winter solstice

Winter solstice, also known as winter festival, Asian New Year Festival and Long Day Festival, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival in China. From winter to the sun, the sun reaches 270 degrees, and festivals are held every year on the Gregorian calendar 65438+February 2 1-23. Winter solstice is one of the eight festivals in a year. In ancient times, there was a custom of "eight festivals" to worship the gods and ancestors. Winter solstice is regarded as a big holiday in winter. There is a folk saying that winter solstice is as big as a year, so the ancients called it "sub-year" or "off-year". In some coastal areas in southern China, the traditional custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors during the winter solstice is still continuing. In some areas of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice.

Name explanation

The winter solstice was called "short day" or "short day" in ancient times. After the mine was restored, it was easy to say: the late king even closed Japan, and business travel was not good. Chen Zhisui's Collection of Classrooms says: "Summer is the end of the autumn equinox, and spring is the winter solstice." It is also said that the solstice in winter is in the south of the sky, and the days are short and the shadows are long.

The "winter solstice" is the turning point of the sun's southward travel. After this day, I went back, and the point of direct sunlight began to move northward from the tropic of Capricorn, and the daytime in the northern hemisphere increased day by day. The winter recorded in "Three Rites and Righteousness" written by Cui Lingen of the Southern Dynasties has three meanings: first, it is cloudy, second, it is sunny, and third, it is south, so it is called winter. "The ancients believed that the solstice in winter was a day of struggle between Yin and Yang, and it was a good time to predict the sunny and rainy days in one year and even the human fortune in the coming year.