The origin of the winter solstice and customs short

The origins and customs of the winter solstice are briefly summarized as follows:

One, the origins of the winter solstice

The winter solstice was one of the first of the 24 festivals to be formulated, but most people don't know that its origins actually come from the planning of the capital city at the national level. More than 3,000 years ago, the Duke of Zhou used the earth-guillotine method of shadow-measuring to locate the center of the world in Luoyi, which was designated as the center of the earth, a politically significant move at the time that became one of the festivals that would influence future generations for thousands of years.

2, winter solstice customs

1, Jiangsu winter solstice customs.

In Jiangsu, people attach great importance to the winter solstice, the night before the night called "festival night", also known as "night", the production of cakes to ancestors, and gifts to friends and relatives, set up banquets, known as the "festival wine! The cake was made to offer to ancestors and given to relatives and friends, and the feast was called "Festival Wine" or "Winter Wine". Some people make winter wine with yellow wine and sugar syrup.

2, Fujian winter solstice customs.

Fujian, the winter solstice popular "rubbing pills", "sticking pills", "feed pills", the color of the pills red and white, some were pinched into small and exquisite `toys, such as made into a pig head , pig's feet, and lychee, peach, banana, symbolizing prosperity and good luck.

3,, Guangdong winter solstice customs.

Cantonese people circulate a saying: "winter solstice big over the New Year", the winter solstice as grand as the New Year. People generally worship ancestors on the winter solstice, but also to the grave in front of the hanging paper, commonly known as "hanging winter". In some places, the winter solstice feast to fish, meat, preserved meat, clams and vegetables to cook, the people around the pot and eat, called "around the stove". On this day, in addition to eating reunion rice, eat dumplings.

Winter Solstice Introduction:

Winter Solstice, also known as the day of the South Solstice, the Winter Festival, the age of the two connotations of nature and humanities, is one of the twenty-four seasons, but also a traditional Chinese folk ancestor worship festival. The winter solstice is one of the four seasons, is regarded as a big winter festival, in the ancient folk "winter solstice is as big as the year," said.

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.