When will the winter of 2020 begin?

Beginning of winter in 2020 is 165438+20201October 7th.

Beginning of winter in the history of beginning of winter is the nineteenth of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, which is determined according to the sun's arrival at 225 degrees of the yellow meridian. Beginning of winter is not only a time to hold a grand harvest festival and a harvest feast, but also a season of cold wind. There are customs and activities such as "October New Moon", "Qin Sui Shou", "Cold Clothes Festival" and "Harvest Festival".

At this time, in the north, it is the winter months when the water freezes and the ground begins to freeze, but in the south, it is the weather of Xiaoyangchun. Beginning of winter is an important festival in October. During the Han and Wei Dynasties, on this day, Emperor Tiandi personally led the ministers to meet the winter weather, commended and supported the martyrs who died for their country and their families, asked the deceased to save their lives, and encouraged the people to resist the plunder and invasion of foreign enemies or evil bandits. In China, there are customs such as ancestor worship, feasting and predicting the age of ancestors, so as to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of future generations, and pray for God to give them a good year in the coming year, and farmers themselves can get drinking.

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Eating a bowl of bacon and vegetable rice in winter is a special custom of old Suzhou people. The cooked rice is fragrant and waxy with frost cabbage, lean bacon and rice vinegar as raw materials and brick stove and straw as fuel. Bacon paella is not among the famous dishes in Suzhou, but there is never a shortage of diners who love to eat.

In fact, eating paella with bacon has another meaning, that is, eating salty kidneys. Salty taste has been listed as the first of the five flavors since ancient times. After beginning of winter, the weather is getting colder and colder, and kidney yang is most likely to be injured. Salty food into the kidney can play a role in tonifying the kidney. However, it should be noted that patients with hypertension should not eat too much salt.