What is the date of the winter solstice on 20 13?

Winter solstice date of 1, 20 13: Sunday, 20 13, 12.

2. Winter solstice, also known as short day, winter festival and sub-year-old, 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.

In China, the winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight festivals. The ancients believed that winter was the weakest day of the year, and then the yang gradually recovered. Therefore, the winter solstice is regarded as a big holiday in winter, which was called "sub-year" or "off-year" by the ancients, and it is also said that the winter solstice is as big as a year, which still continues the traditional custom of ancestor worship in some coastal areas in southern China. In some parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. At the same time, the solstice of winter is also the beginning of winter. From the solstice of winter, people began to count to nine to calculate the cold weather.