What are the customs of the winter solstice festival?

Ancient people believed that since the winter solstice, the yang energy of heaven and earth has been getting stronger and stronger, representing the beginning of the next cycle, which is a day of great auspiciousness.

People initially celebrated the winter solstice to celebrate the arrival of the new year, taking the winter solstice as a festival, originating in the Han Dynasty, flourishing in the Tang and Song dynasties, and continuing to this day. So what do you know about the customs of the winter solstice?

1, eat soup dumplings

Winter solstice to eat soup dumplings, is the traditional custom of China's southern region. Dumplings, also known as soup dumplings, "round" means "reunion", "complete", so the winter solstice to eat dumplings and called "winter solstice group So the winter solstice soup dumplings are also called "winter solstice dumplings". Every winter solstice early in the morning, each family grinds glutinous rice flour, and sugar, meat, lai, fruit, radish, etc. to make fillings, wrapped into the winter solstice dumplings, not only from the family to eat, but also will be given to friends and relatives to show their blessings. Folk also have "ate dumplings a year older" said.

2, eat wontons

As the saying goes, "winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles". In the north, the winter solstice will eat wontons. As for why the winter solstice to eat wontons? It is said that wontons like chicken eggs, yin and yang embryo, pregnant with the connotation, like ancient heaven and earth chaos is not open like the image, and to take its harmonies, will "eat wontons" derived from breaking the chaos, open up the meaning of heaven and earth.

3, nine nine cold

Winter solstice began to enter the winter. Ancient folk in the winter solstice to draw "nine nine cold map", or painted with nine plum blossoms of the "plum map" custom. One petal was filled in every day, and when all the petals were filled in, the spring was over, and it was nine sunny days. The drawing is a poetic way to pass the long winter. It is a way to express the belief that the cold winter will pass and spring will surely come.

4, winter solstice pill

Winter solstice early this morning, the family adults and children tend to sit around the bamboo gourd or a large plate, each extracted beforehand with glutinous rice flour and water churned into the powdered dough to two hands rolled into a marble like pills, called "winter solstice pill". The "winter solstice balls" symbolize that the whole family is happy at the end of the year. Some of the "winter solstice pill" also to orange cake, melon book sugar, bean sand and other fillings, commonly known as "duck mother blanch", "winter solstice pill" can be arbitrarily rolled to the size of uneven, take the "Gongsun pill" good omen. Chaoshan has a "winter solstice pill, a food on the New Year" folk proverb, commonly known as "add years", said that although the year has not passed, but we have added a year.

5, the number of nine

from the winter solstice number, the so-called "even winter from nine", every nine days for nine, to nine days and the end of the cold, spring, the weather is warming up, which is called the "number of nine". This is a way for the Chinese people to calculate the change of heat and cold, and to express the mood of looking forward to spring. Since long ago, the folk have been circulating a lot of local conditions, reflecting the local weather and climate of the "nine nine cold song" or "winter solstice nine nine song", "count nine song". "These songs are both seasonal proverbs and songs reflecting the lives of working people.

The above is what I know about the winter solstice holiday customs, partners, you also know what customs?