What is the date of the winter solstice on 20 10?
As a solar term and festival, the winter solstice plays a very important role in people's hearts. Every family will celebrate the winter solstice on this day, and the most obvious custom of the winter solstice is eating. Every household will prepare local winter solstice food, such as jiaozi in the north and Tangyuan in the south, and they all have the expectation of reunion. What are the characteristics of the winter solstice?
As a solar term and festival, the winter solstice plays a very important role in people's hearts. Every family will celebrate the winter solstice on this day, and the most obvious custom of the winter solstice is eating. Every household will prepare local winter solstice food, such as jiaozi in the north and Tangyuan in the south, and they all have the expectation of reunion. What are the characteristics of the winter solstice?
A brief introduction to the winter solstice in the twenty-four solar terms
The winter solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, ranking first among the 24 solar terms. The traditional calendar takes five days as a period, three periods as a section or breath, and a year is divided into twelve sections and twelve gases, which are collectively called twenty-four solar terms. On the winter solstice, the cloud of "The Seventy-Two Seasons of the Month" says: The last hidden qi is extremely extreme. On the winter solstice, the sky is south, the days are short and the shadows are long, so it is called the winter solstice.
Astronomy also takes the winter solstice as the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice marks the pole of yin and the beginning of yang, but the temperature will continue to drop in the short term because the heat radiated from the sun to the ground is less than that radiated from the ground to the space. Therefore, the winter solstice is also the beginning of cold. The Yin and Zhou Dynasties stipulated that the day before the winter solstice was the end of the year. Because the first month of the week calendar is 1 1 month of the summer calendar, there is no difference between New Year and New Year, so the winter solstice is also called "Asian New Year", which is essentially equivalent to today's Spring Festival.
The ancients believed that the winter solstice was an opportunity for chaos and recovery. After the winter solstice is the beginning of another year. Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year, which also shows that the ancients attached importance to the winter solstice. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty separated the first month from the winter solstice after adopting the summer calendar. It can be said that the "Winter Festival" only existed after the Han Dynasty. In order to distinguish it from the "resignation" on the eve of the Spring Festival, the day before the winter solstice is called Xiaozhi or Xiaodong, and some are called "adding years" and "dividing years". The winter solstice is called long winter. The day after the winter solstice is called the summer solstice.
Festival custom
1, ancestor worship
China's southern coastal areas, such as western Guangdong, Chaoshan and parts of Zhejiang, continue the traditional custom of ancestor worship. Every household is dedicated to ancestor statues, memorial tablets, etc. Go to the hall at home, place an altar, set up incense burners, offerings, etc. In some places, while offering sacrifices to ancestors, they also offer sacrifices to gods, land gods and deities, so as to make the next year's weather favorable and the family prosperous.
Step 2 eat barbecue and ginger rice
Cantonese people eat roasted meat and ginger rice on the winter solstice. On this day, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat on the winter solstice. In Chaoshan area, there is a folk saying that "Winter Festival Pills, once eaten, celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "Adding New Year". Hakkas believe that water tastes the most mellow at the winter solstice, so it has become the custom of Hakkas to make wine at the winter solstice.
Step 3 eat rice cakes
People in Hangzhou eat rice cakes on the winter solstice. People in Hangzhou like to eat rice cakes on the winter solstice, from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties to the present. You can make different flavors of rice cakes on the winter solstice, and eat rice cakes on the winter solstice, which is old and auspicious. In Sichuan, mutton soup is eaten on the winter solstice, and mutton is the first tonic in winter. In the area of Hunan and Hubei, red beans and glutinous rice must be eaten on the winter solstice.
4, eat the winter solstice group (winter solstice pill)
In some areas in the south, eating the winter solstice ball is more popular, which means reunion. On the morning of the winter solstice, every household grinds glutinous rice flour, and uses sugar, meat, radish, fruit and shredded radish as stuffing to make winter solstice balls, which are not only eaten at home, but also given to relatives and friends as a sign of blessing. In fact, eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is a traditional custom in China, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. There is also a folk saying that "eating jiaozi is one year older".
5. Eat jiaozi and drink mutton soup.
In many parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, saw a frozen person when he retired in his later years, so he wrapped mutton, some cold-dispelling herbs and dough into the shape of ears, made a medicine called "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction" and gave it to the people. Later, on the winter solstice, people imitated eating and formed a custom.