Is the winter solstice part of a traditional holiday?

The winter solstice is a traditional holiday.

The winter solstice, also known as the day of the southern solstice, winter festival, subyear, etc., both natural and humanistic connotation, is both an important festival in the twenty-four seasons, as well as the traditional Chinese folk festival of ancestor worship.

The winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight sections, and is regarded as a major winter festival, and in ancient times, folklore had the saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year". Winter solstice customs vary from region to region and there are differences in the content or details of the customs. In southern China, there are winter solstice ancestor worship, feasting customs. In northern China, it is customary to eat dumplings on the winter solstice every year.

The winter solstice is the beginning of the return of the sun, since the winter solstice from the height of the sun rises, the day grows day by day, the winter solstice marked the newborn sun, the sun back and forth movement into a new cycle, so the ancients regarded the winter solstice as a "day of great good fortune," in the eight sections of the year, the winter solstice of the importance of the year is no less important than the spring festival.

Pre-Qin period, the north and south of the customs and culture of different places, the customs of different places have not yet fused popularity, many festivals have a history, lack of records. Many ancient festivals and activities have been recorded in the writings of few.

Climate change at the winter solstice:

After the winter solstice, although the sun's altitude angle is gradually high, but this is a slow recovery process, the daily heat loss is still greater than the heat received, presenting a "not enough to make ends meet" 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 characterization of the climate is obviously late for most parts of China.