Winter Solstice Festival in English

Winter Solstice English: Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice, also known as the Southern Solstice, Winter Festival, Yasui, etc., has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is one of the twenty-four solar terms. It is an important solar term and also a traditional ancestor worship festival among Chinese people. The winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight festivals, and is regarded as a major festival in winter. There is a saying among ancient people that "the winter solstice is as big as the new year".

Winter Solstice customs vary in content or details depending on the region. In southern China, there is a custom of worshiping ancestors and feasting during the Winter Solstice. In northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year. ?

The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term of the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms". The sun's yellow longitude reaches 270°, and it is celebrated every year on December 21-23 of the Gregorian calendar. The winter solstice is the extreme southward direction of the sun's direct point. On the winter solstice, the sun's rays shine directly on the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun's rays are most tilted toward the northern hemisphere, and the sun's altitude angle is the smallest. It is the day with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere.

The winter solstice is also the turning point when the sun's direct point returns north. After this day, it will "turn back" and the sun's direct point begins to move northward from the Tropic of Capricorn (23°26′S). ) the days will grow day by day.

On the winter solstice, although the sun is low and the days are short, meteorologically speaking, the temperature of the winter solstice is not the lowest. In fact, because there is still "accumulated heat" on the earth's surface, it is usually not very cold before the winter solstice, and the real severe cold occurs after the winter solstice.

Due to the huge differences in climate across China, winter of this climatic significance is obviously late for most areas in China. The winter solstice marks the beginning of the cold season, and people start counting nine to calculate the cold weather (folk proverb: "The summer solstice is three Geng, and the winter solstice is nine.").