Winter solar terms custom

This solar term in beginning of winter represents the beginning of winter.

Beginning of winter solar term is the first solar term in winter. Traditionally, winter officially entered from this day. Beginning of winter is the19th solar term in 24 solar terms, and it is the beginning of winter. Bucket handle points to the northwest, and the longitude of the sun reaches 225, which intersects with Gregorian calendar165438+1October 7-8 every year.

Beginning of winter solar terms began, and the Yellow River basin region began to enter winter. However, due to China's vast territory and great climate difference, the northern region and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau entered winter earlier, while the south of the Yangtze River did not enter winter until the end of 1 1, and Zhuhai, Hong Kong, Macao, Hainan and Taiwan Province provinces were still warm at 1.2. After winter, agricultural activities gradually decreased. The vast areas in the north are frozen, and agricultural and forestry crops have entered the wintering period. The Jianghuai area is suitable for planting late autumn wheat. At the same time, rice can be dried according to the sun to ensure the storage quality.

There are many traditional customs on the solstice of winter, which are called welcoming the Spring Festival. China used to be a typical farming society. After a year's hard work, we should take advantage of this early winter to have a good rest and repay the hard life of our family. What's more important is to worship wine, which is held on the solstice of winter. People put on new clothes, come and go to congratulate each other, and there are even more teacher worship activities and winter study. On the solstice of winter, eating jiaozi is an essential item. Jiaozi, formerly known as Jiao 'er, was created by Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in China, for people to drive away the cold in winter. Ear leakage in winter is easy to get frostbite, so it can be said that it is the best care for family members to eat a bowl of jiaozi.

Traditional customs in early winter

1, eat jiaozi

On that day in beginning of winter, all kinds of jiaozi were very popular. First, beginning of winter will improve its life on this day, but "it's not as delicious as jiaozi"; Secondly, sexual intercourse comes from the saying that beginning of winter is at the turn of autumn and winter, so you can't help eating sexual intercourse. Some places want to eat pumpkin, jiaozi. Pumpkins bought in summer are stored and made into dumpling stuffing. The taste is different from that of Chinese cabbage and pumpkin stuffing in summer. It is delicious to eat vinegar and rotten garlic together. In Jilin, the custom in early winter is to eat jiaozi, because jiaozi looks like ears. People think that if you eat them, your ears won't get cold in winter. In addition, jiaozi's homonym "jiaozi" means that the beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter.

Step 2 brew yellow rice wine

It is a traditional Shaoxing wine-making custom to start brewing yellow wine in beginning of winter that day. The low water cooling temperature in winter can effectively inhibit the growth of miscellaneous bacteria and make the wine form a good flavor in the process of low temperature and long-term fermentation. This is the most suitable season for wine fermentation. Therefore, Shaoxing people regard beginning of winter to beginning of spring in the second year as the most suitable time to brew yellow rice wine, which is called "winter brewing" to pray for happiness.

Step 3 eat raw onions

There is a proverb in Nanjing: "An onion and a half a day brings wind to your legs in winter." When they arrived in beginning of winter, the old Nanjing people paid special attention to eating raw onions to resist the cold and wet winter in Nanjing and reduce the incidence of diseases. According to the old man, onions are warm and pungent, which can make people sweat, so that the stagnant yang in the body is discharged with sweat, and the yang runs smoothly, and evil spirits are discharged with sweat. Nanjing people often say that "beginning of winter brushes the diseased dish, and the scallion is hot in his mouth". In order to be healthy after winter, Nanjing people also learn from northerners to eat raw onions at this time.