What are the seven customs of solar terms in beginning of winter?

When people are still enjoying the warm sunshine in autumn, the time has come soon 1 1, and winter has begun. Beginning of winter, as the first solar term in winter, comes around 1 1.8 every year. When beginning of winter solar term comes, flowers and trees wither, insects lurk, and the activities of all things tend to stop. They hibernate to save energy and prepare for the coming spring. Although there is no such thing as hibernation, there is a folk custom of making up for winter in beginning of winter. In this best period of tonic, people make food supplements to supplement their physical strength and resist the cold in winter. On this day, people in the north and south make delicious food and game in different ways, so that in the cold winter, people can resist the cold invasion.

Step 2 Eat jiaozi

Beginning of winter solar terms mean autumn harvest and winter storage. China used to be a farming society. People who have worked for a year should take advantage of beginning of winter to have a rest and reward their families for their hard work over the past year. There is a proverb that "beginning of winter fills the winter and the mouth" is the best metaphor.

In southern China, people like to eat some chicken, duck and fish in early winter. On this day in early winter in Taiwan Province Province, street restaurants such as "Mutton Stove" and "Ginger Duck" complement winter weddings. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken and siwu chicken to supplement energy.

3. He Dong

Hedong, also known as "winter worship", had the traditional custom of solar terms in beginning of winter in the Han Dynasty. Cui Ding's "Four-person Moon Order" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "On the day of the winter solstice, wine and food are served, respecting the teacher of the old gentleman and welcoming it as a sunny day." On this day in the Song Dynasty, people put on new clothes and celebrated exchanges, just like New Year's Day. In the Qing dynasty, "the solstice is the winter solstice, and the literati pay homage to their elders and pay tribute to each other." Fine people, men and women, also bow to each other with fresher clothes, which is called "worship of winter" (see Ting Anne Lu, Volume XI). Since the Republic of China, the traditional customs of Hedong seem to have been simplified. However, some activities are gradually fixed, stylized and more universal. For example, in winter schools, teacher-worshipping activities are held in winter.

4. Winter research

Winter night is the longest and it is also the slack season, so it is the best time to hold a "winter school" in this season. Informal education in winter schools has various properties: for example, "literacy classes" recruit adult men and women with the aim of literacy; The "training class" recruits people with certain expertise, conducts professional knowledge training and cultivates talents; "Ordinary classes" are mainly to improve culture and popularize scientific and technological knowledge. The school site of winter school is mostly located in temples or public houses. Teachers mainly employ people from their own village or other villages to undertake it, and give them appropriate remuneration.

5. Cowboy

In the long winter, there is little tender grass, and feeding animals mainly depends on hay. In order to improve the feed of livestock, there are activities to let cattle eat grass in late autumn and early winter before the severe winter. In winter, the wheat field is like grass, and a layer of grass covers the earth. As long as the wheat roots are firmly tied and the wheat seedlings grow on the ground, they are not afraid of being eaten by animals or trampled. It is common to play in the wheat field in winter. The wheat seedlings were flattened by a sea of people, but it was equivalent to applying a layer of fertilizer, and the wheat grew particularly well the next year. So there are many people grazing in the wheat field in winter.

In Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, there are many cows and babies in winter wheat fields. Most cowboys are poor teenagers. They can't afford to go to school, so they have to be cowboys. Cowherd's task is to have breakfast, bring some steamed bread, pull the cows into the wild wheat field and let them eat grass.

6. Winter swimming

Interestingly, the way to celebrate beginning of winter is also innovative. During their stay in Harbin and beginning of winter, the athletes of Heilongjiang Winter Swimming Association crossed the Songhua River to welcome the arrival of winter in this way.

7. Apprentice

In winter, many villages hold teacher worship activities, which is the season for students to visit their teachers. After winter, the school directors (school administrators) of urban and rural schools, with their parents and students, put four dishes, a pot of wine and a glass on the top of the plate and take fruits and snacks to the school to express their condolences to the teachers, which is called "learning from the teacher". Some teachers' families hold banquets for students who come to visit their teachers at the beginning of winter or winter solstice, as if it were an important thing. Hang a statue of Confucius in the court and write "Great Confucius, the most sacred teacher". The students prostrated themselves before the statue of Confucius and said, "Confucius, Confucius, Confucius! Confucius did not have Confucius before, and Confucius will be like Confucius in the future! " Then the students say hello to the teacher. After the ceremony, the students did housework at the teacher's house.