What is the date of winter solstice this year, and the specific time of winter solstice is 202 1?

Winter solstice, also known as solstice, winter festival, child year, etc. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk ancestor worship festival in China.

Winter solstice schedule from 2020 to 2030

202065438+February 2118: 02:12

202 1 year

65438+February 2 1

23:59:09

202265438+February 22nd 05: 48: 01202365438+February 22nd1:27: 09202465438+February 20th 17:. 2nd 04: 49: 552027 65438+February 22nd10: 41:502028 65438+February 22nd116:19:/kloc.

Brief introduction of winter solstice

The winter solstice is the 22nd solar term in the "24 solar terms", and the solar calendar reaches 270 degrees. Every year, the festival is held on 65438+February 2 1-23 in the Gregorian calendar. The solstice in winter is the extreme point of direct sunlight spreading to the south. From winter to the sun, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the sun is most inclined to the northern hemisphere, and the solar altitude angle is the smallest. In all parts of the northern hemisphere, the days are the shortest and the nights are the longest. The solstice in winter is also the turning point of direct sunlight returning to the north. After this day, it went back, and the direct sunlight began to move northward from the Tropic of Capricorn (23 26' s), and the sunlight in the northern hemisphere (China is located in the northern hemisphere) increased day by day.

The origin of winter solstice

According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, there were large-scale activities in the suburbs at that time when people used the winter solstice to worship the heavens, and because the first month of the weekly calendar is November in the summer calendar, the first month of the Zhou Dynasty is equal to our modern November, so there is no difference between celebrating the New Year and celebrating the winter. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the summer calendar that the first month and the winter solstice were really separated. Therefore, it can be said that the "Winter Festival" was not celebrated until after the Han Dynasty.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the solstice in winter was the time to worship ancestors. On this day, the emperor went to the suburbs to hold a ceremony to worship heaven. On this day, people must worship their parents. There are still some places where festivals are celebrated on this day.

Due to the different calendars, people have been inheriting the weekly calendar, thinking that the new year will begin after the winter solstice (there is a saying that eating jiaozi will make you one year older), which is why the winter solstice is so valued by the people. However, such a wrong inheritance makes the folk concept very different from the summer calendar used in Japanese study now. This erroneous concept should be corrected and the correct calendar should be passed down.

Winter solstice custom

1, sacrifice

The winter solstice festival is also called the winter festival and the winter festival. It is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also one of the traditional festivals in China. There is a saying that "the solstice in winter is as big as a year", which has always been valued by the court and the people. Since the Zhou Dynasty, there have been sacrificial activities.

Step 2 Eat jiaozi

Every year from the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year in China, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for the rich and the poor. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter 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.

Eating jiaozi from winter to Sunday is the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", in Quhan Joule Decoction. Up to now, there is still a folk song in Nanyang, which is called "jiaozi bowl runs amok from winter to morning, and no one cares about your frozen ears." .

3, Jiujiu Quhan

After entering the ninth year, some literati engaged in so-called activities to cool down and keep out the cold. They chose a "September" day to meet nine people for drinking (the word "wine" is homophonic with "nine"), with nine dishes and nine bowls on the dining table, and those who finished the table used "nine flowers" to take the meaning of "nine nine" to keep out the cold.

99 cold songs: 19, 29 don't shoot; Walking on the ice on March 9 and April 9; From May 9th to June 9th, look at the willows by the river; 79 rivers open and swallows come 89 miles; 99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere.