The winter solstice is sunny and the vegetation gradually germinates. What does this mean?

With the arrival of the winter solstice, the yang of heaven and earth began to become stronger and stronger, and vegetation gradually grew and sprouted.

The solstice in winter is on the second day of the twelfth lunar month. "Supreme" is the ultimate meaning, and the spirit of winter storage is so extreme. It contains three meanings: the yin is cold to the extreme and the weather is coldest; When the yang starts, it will force the weather to be cold; The sun moves to the southernmost tip, so the days are the shortest and the nights are the longest. The ancients believed that the winter solstice was the extreme of yin and the sun was the beginning. This day has the shortest day and the longest night. Since ancient times, it has been said that the winter solstice is as big as a year.

Winter solstice is an important solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is a "winter festival", so it is considered as a big holiday in winter. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as a year". In ancient times, people wandering in other places had to go home for the winter festival at this time, which was called "having a home at the end of the year". In ancient times, there was a saying that "the winter solstice will bring the sun", that is to say, from the winter solstice, the spirit of the sun slowly began to recover.

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The custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is very popular in the south, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. Tangyuan is a necessary food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. Round means reunion and perfection, and eating glutinous rice balls in winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older".

The solstice in winter also means entering the coldest "September 9" cold weather in a year. From the day of winter solstice, we began to enter the "nine", counting one "nine" every nine days, counting nine "nine", and after 8 1 day, spring naturally came. In fact, it doesn't take that long for spring to come. There is a proverb to prove it: "1929 don't shoot, walk on the ice in 3949, look at willows along the river in 5969, open the river in 79, bring geese in 89, and add 19 in 99 to plow cattle everywhere."