Exploring the value and significance of the winter solstice from the perspective of traditional culture

Exploring the value and significance of the winter solstice from the perspective of traditional culture is as follows:

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The winter solstice, as a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, represents the concepts of kinship, nature, and the spirit of cooperation in traditional Chinese culture. The celebration of the winter solstice and traditional customs play a role in society in consolidating family relationships, passing on culture and enhancing social cohesion. At the same time, the winter solstice also reminds people of the flow of time and the changes in life, leading them to think about the value of life and the reverence for nature.

Introduction of the Winter Solstice:

The Winter Solstice, also known as the South Solstice, the Winter Festival, the Year of Asia, and so on, has two major connotations of both nature and humanities, and is an important festival among the twenty-four seasons, as well as a traditional festival of ancestor worship for Chinese folk. The winter solstice is one of the four seasons, is regarded as a big winter festival, in the ancient folk "winter solstice is as big as the year," said.

The winter solstice, an important point in China's 24 solar terms, is the day with the shortest day and longest night north of the Earth's equator. The winter solstice is the extremity of the sun's southward journey, and the sun's altitude in the northern hemisphere is the smallest on this day. On the winter solstice the sun's rays are directed at the Tropic of Capricorn, and the sun's rays are most tilted toward the northern hemisphere.

Winter solstice meteorological changes and agricultural activities:

1, meteorological changes

After the winter solstice, although the sun's altitude angle is gradually high up, but this is a slow recovery process, the daily heat loss is still greater than that of the heat received, presenting a "more than enough "The situation. To the "three nine, four nine days", the least heat accumulation, the lowest temperature, the weather is getting cold. China's vast territory, the climate landscape varies greatly from place to place.

The winter solstice day is short, but the winter solstice temperature is not the lowest; the winter solstice will not be very cold, because the surface of the ground is still "heat", the real winter is in the winter solstice after. Because the climate varies so much across China, this astronomical feature is obviously late for most of the country.

2, agricultural activities

Winter solstice before and after the construction of water conservancy, large farmland infrastructure, fertilizer fertilizer, at the same time to apply good potash, do a good job of frost protection. Jiangnan region of China should strengthen the management of winter crops, clearing ditch drainage, soil congestion, the winter soil has not yet plowed over the knot to grasp the plow, to loosen the soil. Has begun spring planting in the southern coastal areas, it is necessary to seriously do a good job of rice seedlings to prevent cold.