What are the taboos in winter solstice?

Taboos in winter solstice include staying up late, going out of town and going back to your mother's house.

Avoid staying up late

In ancient times, people attached great importance to the harmony between yin and yang, and the solstice in winter was considered cloudy. If you stay up late this day, it will lead to imbalance between yin and yang. Especially for the elderly and children, their own yang is insufficient, and they are even more taboo to stay up late.

Avoid going out of town

First of all, the winter solstice has the shortest day and the longest night. If you go out during the day, it indicates that you will go home after dark. The ancients did not advocate going out because they were afraid of the dark. Secondly, the solstice in winter is also a day of reunion and ancestor worship, so everyone will choose to stay at home and may encounter bad things when they go out.

Avoid going back to your mother's house.

The solstice in winter is the first day of the new year, which is equivalent to New Year's Day, so it is taboo to go back to your mother's house. According to custom, it is not until the second or third day of the first month that you return to your mother's house.

Brief introduction of winter solstice

The winter solstice is the 22nd of the 24 solar terms. The solar calendar reaches 270 degrees, and it intersects on the 23rd day of the Gregorian calendar (65438+February, 2 1) every year. The solstice in winter is the southernmost point of direct sunlight. On the day of winter solstice, the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn, which is the most biased in the northern hemisphere, and the solar altitude angle is the smallest, which is the shortest day in all parts of the northern hemisphere.

The solstice in winter is also a turning point for the direct point of the sun to return to the north. After this day, it will go back. The direct point of the sun will move northward from the Tropic of Capricorn (23 26' s), and the days in the northern hemisphere (China is located in the northern hemisphere) will increase day by day. On the day of winter solstice, although the sun is low and the days are short, the temperature of winter solstice is not the lowest in meteorology.