What are the traditional customs of the winter solstice?

1, cooking dumplings

The winter solstice eating dumplings in Jiangnan is particularly popular. "Tangyuan" is a kind of round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, "round" means "reunion", "complete", "winter solstice eating dumplings is also called "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the", "the" and "the". The winter solstice soup dumplings are also called "winter solstice dumplings". Folk have "eaten dumplings a year older" said. Winter Solstice Dumplings can be used to offer sacrifices to ancestors, and can also be used to give gifts to friends and relatives. In the old days, Shanghainese people paid most attention to eating soup dumplings.

2. Brewing

Traditionally, people in Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, which is a kind of rice wine brewed with osmanthus flowers and has a pleasant aroma. The people of Gusu would drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice with various kinds of marinated vegetables such as marinated beef and marinated mutton.

3, nine-layer cake ancestor

In China, Taiwan still preserves the winter solstice with nine-layer cake ancestor tradition. The same family name with the same clan on the winter solstice or before and after the agreed early, set to the ancestral ancestral shrine in accordance with the order of the youngest one worship ancestors, commonly known as "ancestor worship". After the ceremony, there will be a big banquet to entertain the ancestors. We drink, and contact each other with the feelings of the long parting, called "food ancestor".

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Traditional customs of the winter solstice:

1, worship: the winter solstice is in a sense a traditional Chinese teachers' day. Mr. Zuo told reporters that there were many private schools in ancient times, and China has respected teachers since ancient times, and on the day of the winter solstice in ancient times, students would pay special tribute to their teachers and send some gifts for them.

2, sacrifice: the ancient winter solstice this day, the emperor will hold a grand ceremony of sacrifice to heaven.

3, nine nine cold map: folk entertainment games, the literati painted eighty-one plum blossoms, every day to Zhu pen dots and dyes, ninety-nine eighty days after the completion of the plum blossom map, is the time of the spring blossoms. There are also crossword puzzles, nine characters are nine strokes, one stroke per day, to be completed after all, spring comes. For example, the common nine words "willow in front of the garden to wait for the spring breeze".

4, measurement of sun and shadow: the winter solstice at noon, will be a long pole in the sun, measurement of the shadow cast, this time to measure the sun is the longest shadow of the year. And the summer solstice day shadow is the shortest.

5, Phragmites blowing ash: with a tube, the Ming and Qing dynasties began to have a glass tube, the reed burned into the ash loaded into the winter solstice day, if you look closely, the ash will gently float out.

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