The seven customs of the winter season 2021 What are the seven customs of the winter season?

1, make up the winter

While people are still enjoying the warmth of the autumn warmth of the sun, time has flown to November, the winter drifted to. Winter, as the first winter season, around November 8 every year, the arrival of the winter season, is the grass and trees withered, hibernating insects hide, the activities of all things tend to rest to hibernate, to hibernate state, to maintain vitality and vigor, for the next spring vigorously in preparation. Although there is no hibernation of human beings, but the folk have the custom of winter tonic winter. People in the best period of tonic, dietary supplements, in order to resist the winter cold to replenish the vital energy. On this day, people in the north and south of the country in different ways to supplement the mountain treasures and wild food, so that in the cold winter, people can withstand the cold attack.

2, eat dumplings

Lidong festival, there is the meaning of autumn harvest and winter storage, our country in the past is a farming society, people who have been working for a year, the use of the day to take a break, and by the way, treat the family to a year of hard work. There is a proverb that says, "The winter is the best way to make up for the winter, and to make up for the empty mouth" is the best analogy.

In the south of China, winter people love to eat some chicken, duck, fish and meat, in Taiwan on the day of winter, the streets of the 'mutton stove', 'ginger duck' and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families also stew sesame oil chicken and four things chicken to replenish energy.

3, He Dong

He Dong, also known as the "winter worship", in the Han Dynasty that is the traditional custom of the winter festival. The Eastern Han Dynasty, Cui Ding, "Four People's Monthly Order": "Winter solstice day into the wine and food, congratulations on the visit to the master of the elders, as on the day." In the Song Dynasty, people change new clothes on this day, celebrating the exchange, as in the New Year's Day. Qing dynasty "to the day for the winter solstice, the scholarly family to congratulate the elders, and cross out to visit. Fine people of both sexes, also must be more fresh clothes to greet each other, called "worship winter." (See Gu Lu "Qing Jia Lu" Volume XI). Since the Republic of China, the traditional customs of winter greetings seem to have a tendency to simplify. But some activities, gradually fixed, programmed, more universal. Such as winter school, worship activities, are held in winter.

4, winter school

Winter night is the longest, and is the idle season, in this season to do "winter school" is the best time. Winter school non-formal education, there are a variety of nature: such as "literacy classes", enrollment of adult men and women, aimed at literacy; "training classes" enrollment of people with a certain degree of expertise, professional knowledge training, training of human resources; "general study classes The "general study class" mainly improves culture and popularizes scientific and technological knowledge. Winter school site, mostly located in the temple or public housing. Teachers are mainly employed in the village or outside the village to undertake, appropriate remuneration.

5, cattle herding children

Long winter, less tender grass, feeding livestock mainly rely on hay. In order to improve the livestock feed, while the harsh winter before the arrival of late fall and early winter season, so there are cattle grazing activities. In winter, the wheat field is like a grass ping, a layer of green grass spread over the earth. As long as the roots of the wheat are firmly planted, the wheat seedlings that grow out of the ground are not afraid of being eaten by livestock or stepped on by human feet. Commonly in the winter in the wheat field stage singing, a sea of people to the wheat seedlings stepped on the flat, but is equal to a layer of fertilizer, the next year the wheat grows particularly prosperous. Therefore, in the winter in the wheat field grazing a lot of people.

Shanxi Guanzhong area, the winter wheat field cattle herding children. Most of the cattle herders are poor children in their teens who can't afford to go to school, so they have to work as cowherds to herd the cows. The task of the cowherd is to eat breakfast, bring a few buns, pull the cattle in the wild wheat field, let the cattle graze.

6, winter swimming

Interestingly, the way to celebrate the winter is now also innovative, in Harbin, on the day of winter, the winter swimming Association of Heilongjiang Province, the athletes across the Songhua River, in this way to meet the arrival of winter.

7, worship

Winter, many villages are held in the village to worship activities, is the season for students to visit the teacher. After winter, the towns and villages school director (school administrators), leading parents and students, the upper plate (plate put four dishes, a pot of wine, a wine glass), carrying fruit and snacks to the school to pay tribute to the teacher, called "worship". Some teachers' families, in the winter or the winter solstice this day, like a big event, hosted a banquet for the students to come to pay tribute to the teacher. In the court room hanging Confucius statue, the book "great to the holy master Confucius". Students in front of the statue of Confucius to perform a crisp worship, chanting: "Confucius, Confucius, great Confucius! There was no Confucius before Confucius, and who will be like Confucius after Confucius!" Then the students greeted the teacher, after the ceremony, the students divided into groups to do some chores in the teacher's home.