What folk activities are there on the solstice in winter?

The winter solstice customs include offering sacrifices, praying for blessings, eating jiaozi, keeping out the cold in September, eating glutinous rice balls and sesame seeds.

In the Qing Dynasty, Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou attached importance to winter festivals. The so-called harvest year and harvest year mean that they would rather be frugal during the New Year than idle away their time on the solstice of winter. People give each other all kinds of food, which is called the winter solstice, and celebrate each other, which is called winter worship. Until now, the winter solstice festival is still popular among people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan Province and Guangdong, where ancestors are sacrificed, glutinous rice products are eaten and banquets are held, among which there are many interesting food activities.

For example, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang eat more winter solstice meat, winter solstice fish and chickens and ducks. Winter solstice meat is cooked with pork and soy sauce, which is said to be good for health. The solstice fish in winter is to separate the fish, leaving the head and tail, and put them in a bucket of rice, which means that there is more than enough food. This is similar to eating fish on New Year's Eve, which means more than a year.

In some northern areas, such as Beijing and Tianjin, jiaozi or wonton is eaten on the solstice of winter. Folklore is to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Henan. He opened a medicine shed on the solstice of winter, and wrapped mutton and medicine bags with dough to make ear-shaped burnt ears to treat people's frozen ears.

The 24 Solar Terms

Twenty-four solar terms are special festivals in the calendar to express the change of natural rhythm and establish December. Four years old, three months in spring, summer, autumn and winter, two solar terms each month, each solar term has its own unique meaning. Twenty-four solar terms accurately reflect the change of natural rhythm and play an extremely important role in people's daily life. It is not only a seasonal system that guides agricultural production, but also a folk system that contains rich folk customs.

The twenty-four solar terms contain a long cultural connotation and historical accumulation, and are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. In the field of international meteorology, the 24 solar terms are considered as the fifth invention of China. 2016165438+1October 30th, the 24 solar terms were officially listed in the representative list of UNESCO and human intangible cultural heritage.