When is the winter night on the solstice?

The winter solstice day and night is the night of February 65438+2 1 year.

The solstice in winter has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival to worship ancestors and gods. On the winter solstice, due to the characteristics of solar terms, "the sun rises in the winter solstice, and the sun rises in the heavens and the earth". The ancients thought that it was a good day for the sun to rise in the heavens and the earth from the winter solstice, representing the beginning of the next cycle. The day before the winter solstice is called "winter solstice night", just like Christmas, that is, the night of the 24th. Many old people say that they have been living in the night before the winter solstice.

According to legend, the winter solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms and the first of the 24 solar terms. In all parts of the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day in a year, and the farther north, the shorter the day. North of the Arctic Circle, the sun is below the horizon all day, which is the widest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. For all parts of the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is also the day with the lowest sun height at noon all year round. During the winter solstice, the northern hemisphere gets the least solar radiation, about 50% less than the southern hemisphere.