Is there a winter solstice abroad?

No, winter solstice is a tradition in our country, which 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.

There is a folk saying that the solstice in winter is as big as a year, which continues the traditional custom of ancestor worship in some coastal areas in southern China. In southern China, there are customs of offering sacrifices to ancestors and enjoying the winter solstice. In northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi from winter to Sunday every year.

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The meaning of solar terms

The winter solstice is a solar term reflecting the direct sunlight movement. On the solstice of winter, the sun moves southward to the extreme, and the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn, which is the place with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. From that day on, the direct sunlight point returned to the north, and the height of the sun in all parts of the northern hemisphere (China is located in the northern hemisphere) gradually increased, and the number of days also increased day by day.