Winter Solstice Folklore Activities

Customs of Winter Solstice Winter Solstice Introduction

Winter Solstice (Winter Solstice), also known as 'a Yangsheng', is an important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Winter Solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival", "Yayu", etc. The Winter Solstice is also called the "Winter Festival". The Winter Solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival", and "Yayu". As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China has been using the earth gui observation of the sun, determined the winter solstice, it is the twenty-four solar terms in the earliest formulation of a time in the annual calendar between December 21st ~ 23rd.

History

According to records, the Zhou-Qin era to winter November as the first month, the winter solstice for the first year of the New Year. The Book of Han has a cloud: "the winter solstice Yang Qi, Jun Dao long, so He ......", that is to say, people began to winter solstice festival is to celebrate the arrival of the new year. The ancients believed that since the winter solstice began, heaven and earth yang qi began to rise as gradually strong, representing the beginning of the next cycle, the day of great good fortune. Therefore, later on, customs such as ancestor worship and family dinners during the Chinese New Year were often chosen at the winter solstice. The winter solstice is also known as the "small year", which means that the year is approaching and there are not many days left; and the importance of the winter solstice.

The winter solstice as a festival to pass from the Han Dynasty, flourishing in the Tang and Song dynasties, and continue to this day. The first month of the Zhou calendar is the eleventh month of the summer calendar, so the first month of the Zhou dynasty is equal to the eleventh month of today's calendar, so there is no difference between the worship of the New Year and the celebration of winter. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the summer calendar that the first month and the winter solstice were separated. It can also be said that the simple "winter solstice festival" is since the Han Dynasty later, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and continues to this day.

Winter Solstice Customs

China's winter solstice is the most common two major customs are:

1, the family get together to eat a reunion meal, usually including the most local characteristics of the winter solstice ingredients, to eat dumplings has become the custom of the winter solstice of the majority of Chinese people.

2. Rituals. Many families will go to the graves on this day or the day before, and those who are not convenient to go back to their hometowns will also be at home, making a small offering table with some dumplings, wine, fruits, and so on, to pay their respects.

Of course, the winter solstice has developed over thousands of years, forming a unique festival food culture. Different regions also have some special customs. Here is a brief list of some of them:

North

Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, rich or poor, dumplings are an essential holiday meal. With the development of transportation in China, work migration, north-south exchanges, etc., eating dumplings is now carried over to many areas in the south.

Around Tengzhou, Shandong

The custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. This day is called Fu Jiu, before the festival will give the elders such as mutton and other gifts, Fu Jiu family should drink mutton soup, on the individual on the elders of the family are to figure a good omen.

Jiangnan water town

There is the winter solstice night the whole family get together *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom.

Ningbo

Ningbo's traditional custom, sweet potato soup fruit is one of the winter solstice must eat food. In Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the winter solstice is to "turn over" all the bad luck of the past year.

Taiwan

In China, Taiwan still preserves the tradition of using nine-layer cake to offer sacrifices to ancestors on the winter solstice.

Taizhou and Linhai

In Taizhou and Linhai, the winter solstice rounds are eaten on this day (rounds, also known as hard rounds and brown rounds).

Suzhou

The Gusu region attaches great importance to the winter solstice, and there is a saying in the Gusu region that "the winter solstice is like a big year". 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.

Jiangxi

Mochi, a specialty of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, is also a traditional snack of the Fujian people, the offerings of the Fujian people during the festival. It is also a traditional snack for Fujianese and an offering for Fujianese rituals. It is suitable for steaming, pan-frying, fire-roasting and stir-frying after drying in the shade.

Hefei

Hefei, Anhui, Hefei people to the winter solstice to eat pumpkin cake and a bowl of hot egg noodles, is considered a winter solstice.

Chaoshan

People in Chaoshan ate the winter festival round, but also in the house door, windows, tables, cabinets, ladders, beds and other conspicuous place to adhere to the two winter festival round, and even the fishermen's boat bow, the farmer's ox horn, fruit growers planted fruit trees are no exception. In order to bless the family peace.

Jiaxing

The winter solstice in ancient times for the big festival, Jiaxing heavy winter solstice, folk worship winter solstice tonic, red beans and glutinous rice, ginseng soup; white fungus, walnut stew, cinnamon boiled eggs and so on.

What are the customs of the winter solstice Northern customs

The winter solstice, is an important festival in Shanxi folk in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "winter" festival.

During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the day before the winter solstice was designated as the end of the year. The winter solstice is essentially equivalent to today's Spring Festival. Later, the summer calendar was implemented. But the winter solstice has been ranked in the first of the twenty-four seasons, there is a "winter solstice is as big as the year" said, called the "year". Since the Han Dynasty, are to be held to celebrate the ceremony, the peak period of the court vacation for three days, the king does not listen to politics. Folk rest market for three days, celebrating the festival. Its lively degree is not less than the New Year.

Now the winter solstice festival, still retains many historical relics. From the date of the winter solstice, that is, into the cold days. Folk retained the custom of painting "nine nine cold map", in various forms.

There is the drawing of a branch of plum blossoms, plain ink hook out of nine hundred and eighty-one flowers. Every day with a red pen or black pen coloring a petal, petal end and nine nine out, known as the nine nine cold map.

Some are horizontal ten paintings, ten paintings of the firm, made a nine hundred and ninety-one grid square chart table. Every day, paint a grid, nine end of the grid full, known as the nine nine elimination table.

There are paint a few hollow grids, choose a few words, each word must be a few strokes. Every day, write a sentence, and finally become a sentence, such as "pavilion in front of the house to see the strong cypress peak bone" and other phrases, known as the nine nine cold sentence.

The most elegant is to make nine couplets. Nine words per couplet, nine paintings per word, every day in the upper and lower couplet each filled with a, such as the upper couplet written "spring spring spring willow spring dyeing spring beauty"; the lower couplet to "autumn yard hanging autumn persimmon autumn send autumn fragrance", known as the nine nine cold to welcome the spring couplet.

The specific form of each family, often according to the owner's hobbies and cultural qualities. Folk also have nine nine cold map folk proverb: "under the point of the sky cloudy on the point of clear, left wind and right fog snow center. Figure point in the ink black black, outside the door is already grass."

Winter Solstice, folk customary gift shoes, its source is very ancient. The Chinese ancient and modern note, said: "Han has embroidered mandarin ducks crawler, Zhaodi made the winter solstice on the aunt and uncle." Cao Zhi's "Winter Solstice Offering Socks and Crawlers Table" also has the sentence of "welcome to the age of the sample, crawling long Na Qing". Later, the custom of giving shoes to aunt and uncle gradually turned into aunt and uncle giving shoes and hats to nephews and nephews. It is mainly embodied in children. In the past, it was mainly hand-embroidered. Gifts for men, hats are made into tiger-shaped, dog-shaped, shoes embroidered on the beasts. Gifts for girls, hats are often made in the shape of a phoenix, shoes embroidered with flowers and birds. Now most of them are purchased from the collection of coins, the form follows the trend of the times. Every holiday, adults always like to hold the child strings, boasting aunt and uncle gift of shoes and hats.

Winter Solstice Festival, the boys in the northern part of the Jinbei region are accustomed to playing post games. Each holding a palm-sized square stone piece, one side of the stand up, the other side according to the prescribed set of actions, in turn, the sequence of throwing strikes aiming to hit. Knocked down the other side of the post, continue to go down. Failure to exchange with the other party to throw and hit. The first to complete all the procedures for the winner. Girls are used to playing shuttlecock, the form is also various. People often have to come together to participate in the play.

Winter Solstice Festival, the old custom is also to be led by the school director, feast Mr. Teaching. Mr. to lead the students to worship Confucius. Then by the school director to lead the students to worship Mr.. Shanxi folk have "winter solstice teaching" proverb, said this is the custom of honoring teachers. There is still the custom of inviting teachers to dinner on the winter solstice. Northwest China is accustomed to using mutton stew to entertain teachers, and their feelings are full of thick.

In the past, for people to carry the work of servants, used to the winter solstice and the owner of the settlement of wages, ready to go home. The host family traditionally hosted a banquet to entertain the fellows, and discuss with each other the matters of the next year. Today, some rural individual enterprises, still retain this custom, in the winter solstice feast **** drink.

Southern customs

Winter Solstice this day is the longest night of the year, many people take advantage of this night, with glutinous rice flour to do the winter solstice round, in order to distinguish it from the later Spring Festival eve of the resignation of the year, the winter festival of the day before the year is called Tim year-old or sub year-old, said that the year is not yet over, but everyone has grown a year old.

China's customs and folklore vary from place to place, but they are generally the same. The winter solstice round, often at the request of the children pinch some small animals, kittens, puppies, rabbits, tigers and so on. The children are very happy at this time. Before eating the winter solstice round, in the windows and doors, tables and cabinets, behind the bed lamps, are to stick a winter solstice round, known as the consumption of zhouzou, to wait until after the stove to send baked food. If there is a pregnant woman in the family at this time, the winter solstice round will give birth to a man if it is sent, otherwise it will give birth to a woman. When eating winter solstice rounds, the entrances must be in pairs for good luck. Eat to the end of only two left, married people will be all the best, left one, single unmarried people will be where ...... >>

The origin and customs of the winter solstice festival Winter Solstice, is a very important festival in our country's lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival of the Han Chinese in China.

The winter solstice festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and continues to this day. The Qing Jia Record even has "winter solstice is as big as the year". This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People believe that the winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang, is a blessing from heaven. The Han Dynasty to the winter solstice for the "Winter Festival", the government should be held to congratulate the ceremony known as "He winter", routine vacation. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty has this record: "Before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is in peace and quiet, all the officials are not listening to the government, choose the auspicious moment and then save the matter." So this day, the court up and down to take a vacation, the army on standby, the border closed, business, friends and family with food to give each other, visit each other, happy to have a "quiet body" holiday.

Tang, Song period, the winter solstice is the day of sacrifice to the ancestors, the emperor on this day to the outskirts of the ceremony held in heaven, the people on this day to the parents to worship, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice this day to celebrate.

Winter Solstice Legends

First, in the past, the old Beijing has "winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles" said. According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the north often harassed the border, and the people had no peace. At that time, there were two leaders of the Huns, Huns and Tuns, who were very cruel. The people hated them so much that they wrapped them into horns with meat and took the sound of "Hun" and "Tun" and called them "Hundun". Hate to eat, and seek to quell the war, can live in peace. Because the first made of wontons is in the winter solstice this day, in the winter solstice this day every family to eat wontons.

Second, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice is said to have started from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, the founder of Han Dynasty, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, and found the flavor particularly delicious and praised it. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice has been formed in folklore. Now people have in the winter solstice this day, eat dog meat, mutton and a variety of tonic food, in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

Third, in the Jiangnan water towns, there is the winter solstice night the whole family gathered together *** eat red beans and glutinous rice custom. Legend has it that, *** Gong's not talented, evil, died on the day of the winter solstice, after death into an epidemic ghost, continue to brutalize the people. However, the epidemic ghosts are afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red beans and rice on the day of the winter solstice, to avoid the epidemic ghosts, disaster prevention and relief.

Fourth, why eat dumplings on the winter solstice!

Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, rich or poor, dumplings are essential to the holiday meal. The proverb says: "October 1, the winter solstice to, every family eat dumplings." This custom is left behind in honor of Zhang Zhongjing, the "Sage of Medicine", who gave medicine on the winter solstice.

Zhang Zhongjing is Nanyang Wudong people, he wrote "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases", the collection of the great achievements of the medical profession, to get rid of the cold Jiao ear soup has been regarded as a classic by successive generations of medical practitioners. Zhang Zhongjing's famous saying is: "To enter is to save the world, to retreat is to save the people; if you can't be a good prime minister, you should also be a good doctor." During the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was the governor of Changsha and practiced medicine in the lobby. Later, he resigned and returned to his hometown to cure his neighbors. When he returned to his hometown, it was winter. He saw the villagers on both sides of the Baihe River were yellow and thin, starving and cold, and many people's ears were frozen. Then let his disciples in Nanyang Dongguan set up a medical hut, set up a cauldron, in the winter solstice day shed "" healing frostbite. He put mutton and some cold-expelling herbs in a pot of boiling, and then the mutton, drugs out of chopped up, with the bread into an ear-like "Jiao ear", cooked, distributed to the people who came to seek medication for each of the two "Jiao ear", a big bowl of broth. People ate "Jiao Er", drank "cold soup", warm body, two ears heat, frostbitten ears are cured. Later, people learned the appearance of "Jiao Er", wrapped into food, also known as "dumplings" or "flat food".

Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is not to forget the grace of the "medical saint" Zhang Zhongjing, who "dispelled the cold and delicate ear soup". There is still a folk song in Nanyang that says, "If you don't take the dumpling bowl at the winter solstice, no one will take care of you if you freeze your ears off".

Winter Solstice Customs

The winter solstice (December 21 or 22 on the solar calendar), the beginning of the nine. Ancient people believed that the winter solstice is an auspicious day because the day is longer than the day and the Yang Qi rises. Therefore it is worth celebrating. Ming and Qing emperors had a ceremony, called the "winter solstice suburb of heaven". Palace officials to the emperor to present the ceremony of congratulatory table, but also to cast each other to congratulate, like New Year's Day. But the folk do not take the winter solstice for the festival, but some of the activities in response to the scene.

In the Qing Dynasty, some flag people in order to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. On the winter solstice at five o'clock, invite the family first cousin and close friends gathered in the courtyard sitting on the ground, with a short table for the "heaven and earth yard child" or tablets, kill the pig sacrifice. In the meantime, they sacrificed the "Ancestor's Pole" (a flagpole two or three zhang high, with a gourd-shaped top and a "diao dou" slightly below it, and a flag hanging under the dou, representing the ancestors). Sacrifice, family and friends sit around and eat "white meat", this white meat is called "God Yu".

Southerners in Beijing, guest travelers, also have a feast to worship ancestors. At the same time also invited colleagues or close friends in a ...... >>

Different ethnic folk activities Han: Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn, New Year's Eve, Chrysanthemum Festival, Winter Solstice, Tanabata, etc.

Yi: traditional festivals to the torch festival is the most grand, in addition, there is also the Mizuno Festival, such as the Flower Festival, etc. Colorful and varied costumes, can be distinguished by nearly a hundred kinds of typical three-color skirt Burials, cremation, etc. Folk worship of the spirits of all creatures" and the ancestors of the gods and spirits of primitive religious activities, and a small number of people believe in Buddhism, Taoism, and other religions, including Buddhism, Taoist Buddhism, and the Bible. A few people believe in Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Catholicism. Strictly monogamous small family system, there is the legacy of robbing the marriage

The Bai people: March Street, Benzou Festival Torch Festival, etc. are taught as a grand dress varies from place to place, men generally head wrapped in white or blue head wrapping, wearing white lapel coat and black collar coat, wearing white pants underneath. Women wear white blouses, red, black and purple velvet coats, white or blue pants, embroidered and printed colorful towels, and silver ornaments such as three beards and five beards on their chests. Marriages are monogamous and small-family. Funeral Before the Yuan Dynasty, cremation was prevalent, but later it was changed to earth burial, and the funeral ceremony was more solemn

Hani: October year, they worship black, and like to use their own weaving and dyeing of the green and black cloth to make clothes. Men mostly wear lapel tops and pants, with black or white cloth wrapped around their heads, and the elderly mostly wear melon-skin hats. Women's clothing varies from place to place and maintains more of their own characteristics. They like sour and spicy food. Monogamy is practiced, and the custom of preferential marriage between aunts and cousins is popular. People die in coffins and burials. They love music, can sing and dance well, and like to carry a musical instrument with them.

Zhuang: March 3 dress, men and Han Chinese not much difference, women are various, each with its own characteristics. Wear collarless obeisance top, under the wide-legged pants, bunch of flowers around the waist. Festivals have eaten five-color rice, five-color egg custom, women love to chew betel nut. They practiced coffin burial, and were good at singing and dancing.

The Dai: festivals are mostly related to religious activities, mainly related to the Gate Festival Open Door Festival Water Festival Water Festival for the Dai New Year, when the water was held, rowing the dragon boat, put on the high rise and other activities After the death of the general implementation of burial, a small part of the implementation of water burial. Men wear collarless lapel or large lapel and small-sleeved shirts, women wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts, like wine and sour and spicy food, women have the habit of chewing betel nut. They are generally fond of singing and dancing. Folk songs are mostly sung by Zhanha. The dance is famous for the Peacock Dance and the Elephant Foot Drum Dance. Most Dai villages are built near the river, surrounded by bamboo fences, with each household forming its own courtyard. Dry-structure buildings are the characteristics of Dai housing. The Dai basically believe in the Southern Theravada Buddhism.

Miao: Flower Mountain Festival The monogamous small family system is practiced, and in some areas, there are four generations and five generations of patrilineal extended families. There are customs such as preferential marriage between aunts and uncles and transferring houses. The coffin burial is practiced.

Lisu: knife pole festival broad time festival Men wear short clothes, outside the linen coat, left waist knife, right waist hanging arrow bag; women wear embroidered blouse, linen skirt. Like to wear red and white material beads, coral, beck and other ornaments Housing is mostly a thousand feet to the floor of the wooden houses and bamboo gabion houses. Marriage is mainly monogamous small families, but there are still aunts and uncles, such as cousin preferential marriage system and other customs. After the death of a person, friends and relatives should bring wine and meat condolences and around the body singing and dancing, singing Nimo song, the implementation of earth burial, hanging crossbow in front of the grave, weaving burlap tools with the burial goods.

***: The main festivals are the Holy Ki Festival, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, the belief in *** religion, in the more concentrated places to build *** temple. They are mainly intermarried within their own ethnic group. After the death of a person, to ask a general early death of the afternoon burial, bathing with a white cloth wrapped in the body, moved to the wooden box, the implementation of earth burial, the rate of relatives and friends by the A funeral, the wife does not send the funeral

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Twenty-four Seasons Folklore Activities Since ancient times, China has been a very developed agricultural country, ancient farmers from the long-term practice of agricultural labor, accumulated a rich experience about the relationship between agricultural time and seasonal changes. However, with the deepening of China's reform and opening up and the urbanization of a large number of rural areas, especially in the coastal areas of the first rich farmers have abandoned agriculture and business, the role of climate change in guiding agricultural production in people's daily lives is no longer as important.

Nonetheless, the cycle of seasons, spring and fall, and climate change still affect the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of thousands of families, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, where the four seasons are clearly defined. As early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, China's ancient people have the concept of the day south to the day north to the day. Then people according to the beginning of the month, the month of the sun and moon running position and weather and animal growth and other natural phenomena between the relationship between the average year into twenty-four equal parts. And to each part of a proprietary name, which is the twenty-four seasons. To the late Warring States period of the book "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" in the "December period", there is a spring, spring equinox, summer, summer solstice, autumn, autumn equinox, winter, winter solstice and so on the name of the eight seasons. These eight solar terms are the most important of the twenty-four solar terms, which mark the transition of the seasons and clearly delineate the four seasons of the year. Later, in the book "Huainanzi", there were the names of the twenty-four solar terms exactly the same as in modern times. This is the earliest record of the twenty-four seasons in China's history.

The twenty-four seasons probably originated in the Yellow River Valley during the Warring States period of China, and were later improved and refined, and by the Qin and Han dynasties, the twenty-four seasons were fully established. 104 BC, the Solar Calendar, which was developed by Deng Ping and others, formally designated the twenty-four seasons as a calendar, and clarified the astronomical positions of the twenty-four seasons. In the Han Dynasty work Zhou Thigh Calculating Classic, there are eight sections of the twenty-four solar terms recorded in the book. Most of them indicate climate change, physical differences, and agriculture combined very closely, so from which you can grasp the seasonal changes, decide on the timely sowing and harvesting of crops.

Some people mistakenly believe that the 24 solar terms are related to the lunar calendar. In fact, the 24 solar terms are based on the solar calendar. It is based on the position of the sun in the ecliptic (the Earth's orbit around the sun, that is, the sun's annual movement of the route) and cause the evolution of the ground climate in the order of the whole year is divided into 24 sections, each section is about half a month apart (15 days), each section is called a festival. The first of each month is called the "solar term", including the twelve solar terms of spring, hibernation, ching-ming, summer, mango, summer heat, autumn, white dew, cold dew, winter, snow, and cold; in the middle of the month is called the "mid-measure", including rain, spring equinox, rain, small full, summer solstice, summer heat, heat stroke, autumn equinox, frost, and so on. The "middle qi" includes rain, the spring equinox, the valley rain, the small fullness, the summer solstice, the great heat, the summer heat, the autumn equinox, the frost, the light snow, the winter solstice, the great cold. The 24 solar terms are the general name for the 12 solar terms and the 12 middle terms. Among the 24 solar terms throughout the year, the most important are the spring equinox, summer solstice, fall equinox and winter solstice, collectively known as the two equinoxes and two solstices. The solar terms reflect the annual visual movement of the sun, and are thus purely solar, only formally different from what is commonly referred to as the solar calendar.

Because the twenty-four solar terms are determined by the position of the sun on the ecliptic, and the sun passes through each equal part of the time is roughly equal, so in the Gregorian calendar, the date of each year basically does not change much, up to one or two days difference, but in the lunar calendar date is not fixed, in order to facilitate the memorization of the working people of our country created the "twenty-four solar terms song! "

Spring rain startled spring clear valley days, summer full of mango summer heat connected,

Autumn at the dew in autumn, cold frost, winter snow snow winter small cold,

two sections of the month does not change, up to one or two days difference,

the first half of the year to the six, the 21st, the second half of the year to the eight, the 23rd.

In the long-term production practice, China's ancient working people made up a lot of seasonal related proverbs to guide agricultural production. For example: "After the hibernation festival, spring plowing does not stop" "hibernation a plow soil, spring equinox ground as sieve" "before and after the Qingming point of melon planting beans" "planting trees and forests, and mo "Planting trees and forests, don't go past Qingming" "Planting seeds in Qingming, planting rice seedlings in Guyu" "Qingming should be sunny, Guyu should be wet" "Rising summer is a small full, the rain is catching up" "Summer is not, plow and harrow hanging high" "Summer three dynasties hoeing all over the ground" "After the mango seed, can not be forced to plant" "Summer solstice into the ambrosia, plowing more than Watering the garden" "into the summer solstice in June, the golden season to be the first" "small summer surprised the east wind, the big summer surprised the red haze" "the big summer big fall big death, no fall no death "and so on.

After the rise of modern agro-meteorology, many areas will be twenty-four seasons and agro-meteorological data combined, the preparation of agro-climatic calendar, agricultural calendar or agricultural activity table, so that the ancient experience and modern science and technology, cross-reference, complementary, and continue to play a role in modern agricultural production. Therefore, as an important basis for agro-meteorological information, the twenty-four solar terms rightfully have a close connection with the folklore that arose in the agricultural society:

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Concerned about the winter solstice customs, simple to write ■ Winter Solstice ■ Winter Solstice ■ Spring Festival period is the most important festival of the year, so produce a lot of acting on taboos such as: the first day of the New Year taboo to eat diluted rice to eat dry rice .... The first day of the year is the first day of the year of the Chinese New Year, so there are a lot of taboos. ■ waxing winter solstice, after the winter solstice, into the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as waxing, waxing the first eight days of the month to eat waxing congee, waxing congee with glutinous rice, red beans, cinnamon, jujubes, chestnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, white fruits, pine nuts, mixed with a sweet thin rice, it is said that waxing congee originated in India, the Buddha Sakyamuni sat alone under the Bodhi Tree six years of austerity, and finally in the waxing eighth night enlightenment to become a Buddha, the later generation, in order not to forget the suffering of the road to become a Buddhist, in waxing the eighth day to eat. The following year, in order to forget his sufferings before his enlightenment, the descendants ate Last Tooth (December 16th, Lunar Calendar) The Last Tooth is to thank the God of the Earth for his blessings on the harvest and business of the believers, so it will be even more solemn than the usual Tooth, and the bosses of the companies will reward their employees at the company, at home, or in the restaurant as a consolation to the employees for their hard work over the past year. (24th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar) It is also an important day when the God of Zao and other gods, who were the original judges of people's behavior on earth, return to Heaven once a year to report to the God of Jade to determine people's good and bad fortune for the coming year. ▲Zaoshen congee to commemorate the occasion. After the eighth day of the Lunar New Year also begins to do the year-end cleaning work. The 16th day of the Lunar New Year is the Tailgate, a day to worship the God of the Earth. Businesses hosted banquets for their employees on that day, and in the past, if a boss wanted to fire an employee, all he had to do was to point the head of a white-knuckle chicken at the employee, and it would be a secret. The food of the festival is "Karibao". On the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the god of the stove is said to be sent from heaven to live in every household, and at the end of the year, he will return to heaven to report on the good and bad deeds of that household for the year, which will be given by the Emperor of Heaven. In order to get the god of the stove to say something good, people bribe him with sumptuous offerings and stick to his mouth to keep him from snitching on the others. ■ New Year's Eve on this day, families who have traveled far away from home, separated from the family out of the whole back home for the reunion night, around the stove to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the most indispensable part of the New Year's Eve dinner is a big fish, but not eaten to symbolize the "New Year's Eve". After the New Year's Eve dinner, the family's eldest eldest sitting in the main hall, the younger generation in turn to pay homage to the New Year, pay homage to the New Year's Eve money, usually sent after the New Year's Eve money, the general family is allowed to open the game gambling money, whether gambling money, generally have to keep watch until twelve o'clock in the night, firecrackers a release, the official start of the new year. The new year officially begins when firecrackers are set off. In the middle of the night, they also go to nearby famous temples to worship and prepare for the "snatching of the first incense". ■ the first day of the year according to the dry branches to determine the opening of the moment, a moment to sound the firecrackers, in front of the god for sweet ingredients - jujube, melon, sugar, peanut sugar and other sweets, and burn the gold paper together to worship, dawn, the Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, light candles and burn incense to the tea, sweet tea, peanut sugar, honey ▲ ancestor worship Kantan, rice, hair, sweet, chickens, ducks, fish and meat offerings to the gods and Buddha ancestor pagodas, set off firecrackers! Afterwards, the whole family worships together, which is called the beginning of spring. The first day of the year is the beginning of the year. In addition to worshipping the gods and buddhas at home, you can also go to the temple of your faith to make offerings and worship. In addition, the first day of the year is the beginning of the year, in order to have a good luck, the family can not speak unlucky words, scolding, declaring, beating, etc., and can not use knives and forks, and are not allowed to destroy things, the whole family of men, women, and children are dressed in new clothes, or go to pay homage to relatives and friends, or to the countryside to trek in the woods, or to participate in a variety of games and gambling. □ the first day of the ban on vegetable soup and sweet The first morning of the first day to eat vegetarian dishes, and do not eat meat also do not cook, the day before yesterday's meals steamed to eat, do not drink vegetable soup, can only drink iced sugar tea, the Taiwanese believe that if you drink vegetable soup, out of the trip will meet a downpour, some people from the first day of the first three have lived such a life. On New Year's Day, they also do not eat sweets and can only eat them on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Oil barley should be fried in a pot, and there is a proverb in Taiwan that says, "Frying Chi-Chi Chi-Chi," with the meaning of "Chi" meaning "poor. □ the disposal of garbage at home from the first to the fifth of the first few days of the garbage at home shall not be taken out of the door to throw, to *** together, this is considered to be taken out of the home, is to take the home of the blessing out. This is because it is believed that taking things out of the house is taking the blessings out of the house. Therefore, even garbage should be kept in the house. Another theory is that returning to the bride's home on the second day of the month is a rigid social norm, because in the past, the status of women was not high, and it was feared that if a woman was married off, she would meet an evil mother-in-law and might be forbidden to return home for the rest of her life, so there was a custom to do so. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, a married woman, together with her husband and her children, carries some gifts back to her mother's home to pay homage to the New Year. When she returns to her mother's home, she first pays homage to her grandparents and her parents, and then distributes red envelopes to them, and these elders also distribute red envelopes to the grandchildren that her daughter has brought back to her home. If there are younger siblings in the family, of course they have to share the red packets. So every year on the second day of the first month, the mother's house is filled with a lot of joy and hustle and bustle. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ▲ mouse ...... >>

What are the traditional folk activities in China? The first fifteen days of the first month to play waist drums, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and so on

Qingming Festival to pay homage to ancestors

Turbulence Dragon Boat Festival race, eat zongzi

Winter solstice dumplings, summer solstice noodles.

August 15 reunion will

and so on

What are the traditional activities on the winter solstice?

The winter solstice has dumplings ah, and the family to eat a reunion dinner, eat soup dumplings are some traditional activities

Winter solstice people to do what to eat what customs Every year the winter solstice is actually not fixed. Depending on the year, it is usually fixed on December 21st or 22nd. Because of its uncertainty, also known as the "live festival". The winter solstice is also celebrated in different ways in different parts of the world.

Family reunions.

As the winter solstice is one of the major festivals of the Chinese people in the middle of winter, it is the most basic custom for families to get together and have a meal. Loved ones in a city get together, often gathering at the homes of the elderly to celebrate. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.

Eating dumplings.

This is the most common and widespread custom, and eating dumplings on the winter solstice is almost a family tradition. Flour and dumpling powder are also the best sellers in the supermarkets a few days before the winter solstice.

If there are many people in your family, you may want to make several kinds of dumplings. Children will also want to eat dumplings with candy or other interesting fillings.

Rituals.

Some old people will go to their graves on the winter solstice, and those who can't go back to their homes will make a small offering table with some dumplings, wine, and fruits to pay tribute to the old people in their homes.

Drink mutton soup.

It is said to be passed down from Fan Kuai, a great general in the Han Dynasty. Eat more mutton in winter is conducive to the body's internal fire, anti-cold effective, is the preferred winter diet. In some places in Shandong, drinking mutton soup on the winter solstice is a local custom.

Soup dumplings, spuds ......

The south is not as cold as the north. Some local specialties are also eaten to welcome the winter solstice. For example, soup dumplings, sweet potatoes and wine dumplings.

Food tonic into the tonic.

From the winter solstice, the cold winter really begins. To begin to pay attention to diet, especially some cold women, in addition to pay attention to wear warm, but also pay attention to the diet, eat more food rich in protein, carbohydrates and fat, to improve their own energy to withstand the wind and cold, happy winter.