Definition of Winter Solstice and Tomb-Sweeping Day

Winter solstice is a very important solar term in China lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is usually called "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian Year". As early as 2500 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, China observed the sun with the earth, and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms. The time of year is marked in the solar calendar. 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.

According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, people worship heaven in the suburbs on the winter solstice. Since the first month of the weekly calendar is 1 1 month in the summer calendar, the first month of the Zhou Dynasty is equal to our present 1 1 month, so there is no difference between celebrating the New Year and celebrating the winter. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the summer calendar that the first month and the winter solstice were separated. Therefore, it can be said that the "Winter Festival" was celebrated only after the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has existed ever since.

Due to the different calendars, people have been inheriting the weekly calendar, thinking that after the winter solstice, a new year will begin (there is a saying that eating jiaozi will make you one year older), which is why the winter solstice is so valued by the people. However, this wrong inheritance makes the folk concept very different from the summer calendar used in Japanese learning. This erroneous concept should be corrected and the correct calendar should be passed down.

Therefore, the correct solar term after the current winter solstice correction is not set at 65438+February 22nd 2500 years ago.