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Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

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winter solstice

Du fu

Every year as a guest, he suddenly kills people in poverty and mud.

Jiang Shang described me as an old man, and the customs of Tianya were self-related.

After the cane quinoa snow came to Dan Valley, Ming Yu came to scatter Zi Chen.

The heart was broken at this time without an inch, and the road fan saw Sanqin wherever he was.

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The winter solstice is one of the twenty-four solar terms and is the day when winter really comes. "To" means the ultimate, and the qi of winter is extreme. It contains three meanings: the cold reaches the extreme, the sky is the coldest; the yang qi begins, and the rise forces the weather to be cold; the sun travels to the southernmost point, so the day is the shortest and the night is the longest.

Winter solstice, long nights and short days, the ancients on this day to worship the ancestors, and then celebrate each other winter. "On the night of the night, the house is worshipped in front of the gods and Buddhas and the master bedroom is lit up with lamps, and the main house is bright, and the fire is built around the stove, and the family sits together to help the yang qi", which is almost the same as the vigil of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so there is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as the year. The ancients believed that since the winter solstice, the day is getting longer and longer, the yang qi rises, and the yang qi of heaven and earth begins to grow stronger, representing the beginning of the next cycle, which is the day of great luck. It is also from the date of the winter solstice that it entered the "number nine", commonly known as "nine", and every nine days thereafter is a unit, called "nine", after nine "nine", just eighty-one days, that is, "out of nine", then spring and warm flowers bloom.

The "Nine Nine Cold Song" of the winter solstice, commonly known as the "Nine Nine Songs" and "Counting Nine Songs", which is widely circulated by han folk, vividly and vividly records the climate and phenological changes between the winter solstice and the spring equinox of the next year, and also expresses some laws of agricultural activities.

Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

"Nine Nine Songs"

Nineteen twenty-nine does not shoot,

Three-nine-four-nine walk on ice,

Five-nine-six-nine along the river to see the willows,

Seven-nine rivers open,

Eight or nine swallows come,

Nine nine plus one nine,

Ploughing cattle are everywhere.

What are the customs of the winter solstice?

south

In some areas of the south, it is more popular to eat winter solstice balls (winter solstice pills), taking the meaning of reunion. Every morning on the winter solstice, each family grinds glutinous rice flour, and makes stuffing with sugar, meat, vegetables, fruits, radish shreds, etc., and wraps them into winter solstice balls, which are not only eaten by their own families, but also given to relatives and friends to express their blessings. In fact, eating tangyuan on the winter solstice is a traditional custom in China, and it is more common in Jiangnan, and the folk also have the saying that "eating tangyuan is one year older".

northern

In many parts of northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings every winter solstice. According to legend, when the doctor Zhang Zhongjing told the old man to return to his hometown, he saw the frozen people, so he used mutton and some cold-repellent herbs and dough skins to wrap it like an ear, and made a medicine called "cold-repellent ear soup" and gave it to the people to eat. Later, on the winter solstice, people imitated and ate, forming a custom.

Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

The winter solstice is three

One wait for earthworm knots, two wait for elk to dissolve, three wait for water springs to move

Earthworm knots

Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

Legend has it that earthworms are creatures of yin and yang, and although the yang has grown at this time, the yin is still very strong, and the earthworms in the soil are still curled up on their bodies;

Elk solution

Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

Elk and deer are of the same family, but yin and yang are different, the ancients believed that the horns of the elk were born backwards, so it was yin, and the winter solstice was born of a yang, and the elk felt that the yin qi gradually receded and dissolved the horns.

The water is moving

Twenty-four solar terms | the winter solstice

Since the yang qi is born, the spring water in the mountain can flow and be warm at this time.

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