Winter Solstice | One winter a year, one winter a day

2022-12-22

Winter Solstice | One winter a year, one winter a day

Winter Solstice Climate Characteristics

The winter solstice is the first of the 24 solar terms.22A solar term, the third solar term in winter. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, but also a traditional Chinese folk ancestor worship festival. The winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight festivals. It is regarded as a big winter festival. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year. The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night in the northern hemisphere. After that, the day in the northern hemisphere (China is located in the northern hemisphere) will increase day by day.

 

Winter Solstice Three Waiting

One waiting for earthworm knot, two waiting for mi angle solution, three waiting for water spring movement. As soon as earthworms knot, it is said that earthworms are creatures that stretch yin and yang. although yang qi has grown at this time, yin qi is still very strong, and earthworms in the soil are still curling up. Second Hou mi angle solution, mi and deer are of the same family, but yin and yang are different. the ancients believed that mi's angle was born toward the young, so it was yin, while in the winter solstice, mi felt yin qi and gradually solved the angle. Three waiting for the spring to move, the spring water in the mountains began to surge.

 

winter solstice custom

  1. Eat Tangyuan

Eating glutinous rice balls is a traditional custom of the winter solstice, especially popular in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is a necessary food for the winter solstice. "Yuan" means "reunion" and "consummation". Eating tangyuan on the winter solstice is also called "Winter Solstice Yuan". Folk have "eat a year old tangyuan said".

  1. eat dumplings

In many areas of northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year. In northern China, dumplings are eaten on this day because dumplings have the meaning of "eliminating cold". Up to now, there is still a folk proverb that "the winter solstice does not serve dumpling bowls and no one cares about the ears when they are frozen.

  1. Drink mutton soup

The winter solstice also has the custom of eating mutton. According to legend, this custom originated in the Han Dynasty. Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, ate cooked mutton on the winter solstice, which was greatly admired. Since then, the custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice has been formed among the people. Nowadays, this custom is still retained in some areas. Every winter solstice, Sichuan has ushered in the peak period of drinking mutton soup. People think that drinking mutton soup can warm up the local wet and cold environment.

 

Winter Solstice Health Preservation

In the winter solstice world, proper exercise should be carried out to strengthen physical exercise, but work hard and avoid damaging yang qi. Don't get up early to exercise. Don't sweat profusely. The winter solstice "nourishing the heart" is very important, should avoid too much depression, thinking, avoid long-term "overload operation" to prevent overwork, overwork into illness.