How did the winter solstice festival come about?

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar.

It is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival". As early as 2500 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, China observed the sun with the soil return, and determined the winter solstice. It is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, and the time is between 65438+2 1 and 23/in the solar calendar every year.

This day is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere all year round; In most parts of northern China, it is also the custom to eat jiaozi and jiaozi on this day. There is a proverb: When winter solstice comes, we will eat jiaozi, and there are poems and films about this solar term.

Therefore, it can also be said that the "Winter Festival" began in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has existed ever since. "Although the winter solstice is not an annual festival, people are used to taking it as the dividing point of the' solar year'" (Jingtangji Scenery). Chen Zhisui's Tangyuan reflects the production of winter solstice festival Tangyuan and people's holiday consciousness.

The poem says: "Every circle is like a longan, and it takes time for me to love it. The mixed cloud slowly scoops up the silver cylinder water and lightly scoops the snow. Push into the soup pot to drive away the white duck, and get the yellow beads in the sugar bowl. Every winter solstice, everyone cooks. Did you know when you were one year old? " (Excerpted from Poems of Shi Jing in the South of the Yangtze River, Sacrificial Poems).