What are the festivals in December

1, Daxue

One of the twenty-four solar terms, every year between December 6 and 8, the sun is located in the yellow longitude of 255 °, the northern region will be affected by the cold air, often larger snowfall, causing the ground snow.

The weather

During the Daxue Festival, temperatures in most of China and Yushan, Taiwan, have dropped as low as zero degrees or below. Heavy snowfalls, even blizzards, can fall in various places, due to the area where cold and warm air meet at the front of strong cold air.

The ancient saying goes, "The big one is also in full bloom, up to this point and the snow is also in full bloom." Indicates that this kind of festival period, is the starting time of heavy snowfall and the degree of snowfall, as in the small snow festival, a direct reflection of the precipitation of the festival. Therefore, Da Xue (大雪), again, refers to snowfall with a large amount of snow. Zuo Zhuan? Nine Years of Hidden Duke": "A foot on the flat earth is a big snow."

2, the winter solstice

Also known as the winter festival, He Dong, one of the twenty-four solar terms, one of the eight celestial types of festivals, the opposite of the summer solstice. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, the northern hemisphere winter solstice is generally in the western calendar between December 21 to December 23, the lunar calendar with the winter solstice in the month to define the month of November.

The weather

At the time of the winter solstice, the sun is directly above the Tropic of Capricorn. The winter solstice is also one of the shortest days of the year in the northern hemisphere (north of the Tropic of Cancer), with the Arctic Circle in a state of perpetual night and the Antarctic Circle in a state of polar day. After the winter solstice, direct sunlight begins to move northward, the northern hemisphere, the number of daytime hours grows, the height of the sun at noon is also rising, the shadow of the sun is gradually shortened.

Although the winter solstice is the period of time when the northern hemisphere theoretically absorbs the least amount of heat from the sun, there is a delay in the release of heat from the earth's soil and oceans, and in most cases the coldest period occurs not around the solstice, but after, for example, the big cold, which, according to the statistics of the Central Weather Bureau of the Republic of China, is January, followed by February, and then December.

Extended information:

"Twenty-four Solar Terms" is a product of the ancient farming civilization, and farming production

The twenty-four seasons is a product of the ancient farming civilization, farming production is closely related to the rhythms of nature, it is the ancient forefathers in accordance with the farming season, through the observation of the operation of the celestial body, cognition of a year of the time, the climate, weather, and other patterns of change in the formation of the body of knowledge system; each of the seasons is expressed in the time, the climate, the weather, the different changes in the "three weather".

Twenty-four seasons, expressed the unique concept of time between man and the natural universe, contains the Chinese nation's long cultural connotation and historical precipitation. It not only plays a guiding role in agricultural production, but also influences ancient people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, and even cultural concepts.

Through historical development, the lunar calendar absorbed the elements of the dry calendar as a supplement to the calendar, and adjusted it to conform to the return year through the intercalary leap method, forming a yin and yang calendar, and the "twenty-four solar terms" became an important part of the lunar calendar. In the international meteorological community, the 24 Solar Terms are regarded as "China's fifth great invention", and on November 30, 2016, the 24 Solar Terms were officially inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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