What is the winter solstice of 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. The solstice of winter is&; Twenty-four solar terms & the 22nd solar term, bucket, the longitude of the sun reaches 270? Celebrate every year on 65438+February 2 1-23.
According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, there were large-scale activities in the suburbs where people used the winter solstice to worship heaven, and because the first month of the weekly calendar was 1 1 month in the summer calendar, the first month of the Zhou Dynasty was equivalent to our modern 1 1 month, so there was 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 &; Winter Festival &; It didn't exist until after the Han Dynasty, and it flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it has been passed down to this day.
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.
What do you do on the solstice in winter? 1. Enjoy your ancestors.
Wanli's "Jianyang County Records" records that the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors in winter is popular in Fujian. This is a ritual for Japanese families to sacrifice their ancestors. & Fujian worships ancestors with special dumplings. During the winter solstice of the Qing Dynasty, ancestor worship was generally held at home, in front of graves and in places where southerners lived in compact communities. Often, like Qingming and Zhongyuan, ancestors sacrificed in temples at home.
Step 2 Eat jiaozi
The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar. The winter solstice festival is one of the traditional festivals of the Han nationality, which originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties and has been passed down to this day. The winter solstice is usually called &; Winter Festival &; And. Until the festival &; And. Ya Sui&As early as 2500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China had observed the sun with the earth return, and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms, and the time was between 0 and 23 in the solar calendar 65438+February 265438+February, and it was the year with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. On the solstice of winter, there are different customs in the north and south of China. Jiaozi is eaten in most areas in the north, and glutinous rice balls are eaten in the south. There is also a proverb: When winter solstice comes, eat jiaozi, as well as poems and film and television works about this solar term.
Step 3 eat glutinous rice balls
What's the point of going back to your mother's house on the solstice in winter?
In some cities in northern China, people think that they can't go back to their parents' homes on the solstice of winter. This is due to too traditional customs,&; Three obedience and four virtues &; In the past, the feudal ethical code bound the daughter-in-law. After the autumn harvest, the daughter-in-law had to return to her mother's house, so she had the custom of returning to her husband's house from winter to Sunday. Although there is no freedom in modern society if it is strictly observed, if family members are particularly concerned about these traditional customs, as the younger generation, we'd better discuss them with our families in good faith. The solstice in winter is a reunion festival, so we can't lose harmony with our families.
marry
Generally speaking, it is not suitable for marriage around the solar terms. The ancients thought that the wedding day should be avoided from four days to the day before, that is, beginning of spring, Changxia, beginning of autumn, beginning of winter and the day before the vernal equinox, autumnal equinox, summer solstice and winter solstice in the 24 solar terms, and the universe was in a state of chaos. In traditional customs, it is considered as leaving on the 4th and 4th, so it is unlucky to get married at this time.
Usually, we will carefully choose the auspicious day for marriage, so I suggest that we should avoid the winter solstice and choose another day, so that our marriage will have a satisfactory start.
extinguish
In the legend of winter solstice, it is either impossible to go out or impossible to travel far.
Because the winter solstice is the shortest white, it is said that this day is the time when Tengu came to the world to look for the incarnation, so you can't go far, and don't wander around when it is dark. It is also said that when Pangu opened the sky, it was the winter solstice. At this time, because the genius has just started, there is no evil and the world travels. But now the city is brightly lit at night, and people often go home to work and study at night, which is also helpless and does not need to be too concerned.
Of course, if you can go home again, you can prevent colds and accidents at night, which is definitely safer than wandering outside at night.