Today is an important festival in the 24 solar terms, Winter Solstice, which is also a traditional Chinese folk festival for ancestors. The winter solstice is the extreme of the sun's direct point of southward travel. On this day, the sun's light hits the Tropic of Capricorn directly, the sun's light is most inclined to the northern hemisphere, the sun's altitude angle is minimal, and it is the day with the shortest day and longest night across the northern hemisphere. Winter solstice is also the turning point of the sun's direct point of return to the north, after this day the sun's direct point of return began to move northward from the Tropic of Capricorn, the northern hemisphere (China is located in the northern hemisphere) daylight will grow day by day.
The winter solstice festival is traditionally given great importance by the people and there are many different festive activities.
Brewing rice wine
Traditionally, people in Gusu drink winter brew on the night of the winter solstice, which is brewed from glutinous rice or yellow rice with the addition of cinnamon.
Eating Tang-Yuan
Eating Tang-Yuan is a traditional winter solstice custom, especially prevalent in southern China. “Tang-Yuan” are a must-have food for the winter solstice. The word “yuan” means “reunion” and “satisfactorily”, so eating Tang-Yuan on the winter solstice is also called “winter solstice round”. There is a folk saying that “eating a Tang-Yuan is a year older”.
Eat Chinese dumplings
In many northern regions of China, it is customary to eat Chinese dumplings on the winter solstice every year. China's northern regions in this day to eat Chinese dumplings because Chinese dumplings have a "eliminate cold" meaning, and there is still a folk saying that "winter solstice does not end Chinese dumpling bowl, freeze off the ear no one cares".
Eat cured meat and ginger rice
Some places in the south in the winter solstice day to eat cured meat, winter solstice day, sun-dried cured meat has become an essential delicacy on the dinner table in Guangdong and Guangxi, meaning additional dishes to add years. On the winter solstice, people in Wuchuan have the custom of "eating ginger rice" on the winter solstice.
Eat sweet potato and tangguo
In the traditional customs of Ningbo, sweet potato and tangguo are one of the necessary delicacies for the winter solstice. In Chinese, sweet potato is pronounced “fan shu” and turn over is also pronounced “fan”. "Fan" and "fan" are homonymous. In the understanding of Ningbo people, eating sweet potatoes at the winter solstice is to "turn" all the bad luck of the past year. Tangguo is similar to Tang-Yuan, but it is much smaller and there is no stuffing in it. Tangguo is also called Yuanzi, which means “reunion” and “satisfactorily”.
The winter solstice, both natural and human connotations, has been said to be "as big as the Spring Festive". The winter solstice is the beginning of the return of the sun, since the winter solstice sun height back up, day by day growth, the winter solstice marked the sun newborn, the sun back and forth movement into a new cycle, so there is a "day of great luck" saying. The winter solstice customs differ in content or details depending on the region. In the southern region, there is the custom of ancestor worship and feasting on the winter solstice, while in the northern region, there is the custom of eating Chinese dumplings.
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