Solstice winter means
Brief introduction of solar terms in winter solstice:
Winter solstice, also known as short solstice, winter festival and sub-year-old, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival in China. The solstice in winter is one of the eight festivals in four seasons, and it is considered as a big holiday in winter. There is an ancient saying that the solstice in winter is as big as a year, so the ancients called it "off-year" or "off-year". The custom of winter solstice varies in content or details due to different regions.
The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term in the "twenty-four solar terms", and the solar calendar reaches 270 degrees. It is celebrated every year on June 65438+February 2 1 to 23rd in the Gregorian calendar. The winter solstice marks the minimum height of the sun and the shortest day in the northern hemisphere, but the temperature in winter solstice is not the lowest.
The winter solstice has the shortest day and the longest night in all parts of the northern hemisphere, and the shorter the day is the farther north; After the winter solstice, the direct point of the sun gradually moved northward, and the days in the northern hemisphere began to lengthen gradually; Therefore, the ancients believed that winter was the weakest day of the year, and then the yang gradually picked up. From the solstice of winter, people began to count to nine to calculate the cold weather. As the folk proverb says, "The solstice in summer is the third watch, and the solstice in winter is the ninth watch."
? Reasons for eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter:
As the saying goes, "On 10/day, when winter solstice comes, every family eats jiaozi." This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", who gave up medicine from the winter solstice.
According to legend, when Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, returned to his hometown in seclusion, it was the snowy winter. He was sad to see that many villagers in Nanyang had frozen ears. He asked his disciples to set up a medicine shed in Guandong, Nanyang, and put mutton, peppers and some herbs for removing cold in a pot, then fished them out and chopped them up.
The ear is imaged with a flour leather bag, and then cooked in a pot to make a medicine called "Quhan Joule Decoction" for people to eat. After eating it, the villagers' ears will be fine. Later, on the solstice of winter, people imitated cooking food, thus forming the custom of eating jiaozi.