Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Liang Yitao
Correspondent Li Jianji
On December 21, China will usher in the "winter solstice" among the twenty-four solar terms. In Guangdong, the winter solstice festival has a "winter new year", many families will be reunited on the day of the winter solstice like the new year, and many people will call the family reunion of the winter solstice "winter".

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According to the calculation of the Guangzhou Wuyang Planetarium, the accurate arrival time of the winter solstice in 2021 is 23:59 on December 21, that is, the moment when the sun runs to the 270-degree direct Tropic of Cancer of the Yellow Longitude. Coincidentally, the 2020 winter solstice is also on December 21.
This peculiar phenomenon of two consecutive years of winter solstice on December 21 due to calendar calculations last occurred 124 years ago, from 1896 to 1897.
If you want the winter solstice in 2021 to be a little more special, you can choose to "clock in" the sunrise and sunset on the day, as the winter solstice is the shortest daytime and the longest night time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. According to the guangzhou Wuyang Planetarium forecast, the sunrise time in the Guangzhou area on December 21 is 7:04 and the sunset time is 17:46.
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Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Caption | Visual China
Editor-in-charge | Wang Min