Handan Winter Solstice Nightly Homesickness is a holiday

According to the information search of "Handan Winter Solstice Night Thinking of Home", it describes the festival of winter solstice. The poem was written by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi in the twentieth year of Zhengyuan (804) of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Bai Juyi was serving as the secretary of the provincial school, traveled outside, the night stayed in the Handan post station, coinciding with the winter solstice festival, suddenly aroused nostalgia, miss the meaning of this feeling, wrote this poem, a little expression of the bottom of the heart of the frustration and sadness.

The winter solstice is a very important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival, there are still a lot of places have had the winter solstice custom. The winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu", etc., time in the annual solar calendar between December 22nd or 23rd.