Winter solstice also known as the small year

The Winter Solstice is also known as the Little Year, and is also known as the South Solstice, the Winter Festival, and the Year of Asia.

The winter solstice has both natural and humanistic connotations, is an important festival in the twenty-four seasons, but also a traditional Chinese folk festival of ancestor worship, the winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight festivals, is regarded as a big festival in winter, in ancient times the folk have "winter solstice is as big as the year," said, winter solstice customs due to different regions and there are differences in customary content or details. The winter solstice customs vary according to the region, and there are differences in the content or details of the custom, in the southern region of China, there is the winter solstice ancestor worship, the custom of feasting, in the northern region of China, the winter solstice every year, there is the custom of eating dumplings.

The winter solstice is the "twenty-four solar terms" of the 22nd solar term, the bucket refers to the son, the sun's yellow longitude reaches 270 °, in the annual calendar December 21-23 cross section. The winter solstice is the extreme southward point of direct sunlight, the winter solstice this day sunlight directly to the Tropic of Capricorn, sunlight on the northern hemisphere is the most tilted, the sun's altitude angle is the smallest, is the northern hemisphere around the shortest day, the longest darkest day.

Winter Solstice Taboo

1, Legend has it that this day at midnight, the yin qi is particularly heavy, stay in the middle of nowhere will see a hundred ghosts walking in the night spectacle, so in the ghosts of the festival when we have to go home early to stay.

2, do not put two chopsticks inserted in the center of the rice, which is like incense inserted in the incense burner, is the mode of worship, that will think it is you are beckoning him to share the food.

3, do not go to the dangerous waters of the water, the legend says that "water ghosts" will look for people when, in order to reincarnation.

4, do not pick up the money on the roadside, the money is used to buy the ox head and horse face, if they violate their things, it is easy to be taught a lesson by them.

5, do not easily turn back, when walking in the wilderness or sparsely populated places, feel "as if" someone called you, do not easily turn back, it may be that.