Solar terms in ancient cultural common sense

1, January 1st: The first day of the first lunar month, also called New Year's Day, is now called Spring Festival.

2. Lantern Festival: that is, the night of Shangyuan, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as Lantern Festival, is the Lantern Festival.

3, cold food: one or two days before Qingming is the Cold Food Festival. From this day on, the fire will be banned for three days: after cold food, the fire will be rekindled, which is called a new fire. Customs include seeking new fire, hiking and inserting willows.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: To commemorate Qu Yuan's throwing himself into the river, there are customs such as eating zongzi and racing dragon boats.

5. Tanabata: The seventh day of July is Daughter's Day and Valentine's Day in China. Legend has it that cowherd and weaver girl meet on Tanabata, and women have the custom of "begging for cleverness".

6. Chongyang: the ninth day of the lunar calendar. Nine is the number of yang, and both the sun and the moon conform to nine, so it is also called Double Ninth, Chrysanthemum Festival.

7. Social Day: the day when the farmers' sacrifice society (land god) prayed for the New Year. The spring club and the autumn club are held around the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox respectively.

8. Furi: It is three volts from summer to the sun, and Furi refers to the day when it enters the first volt.

9. La Ri: The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is La Ri, which is the day of La Worship in ancient China, and is now commonly known as Laba.

10, Solstice: It is a combination of winter solstice and summer solstice, both of which are one of the 24 solar terms. The ancients believed that "the solstice in winter is a sunny day" is the starting point of solar terms. Such as "Xi Chun Shen Bing Solstice (here refers to the winter Solstice)".

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