What is the origin of the winter solstice? What's the difference between the beginning of winter and the winter solstice
Four seas network: the winter solstice is the most important symbol of the 24 solar terms. After entering the winter solstice, the weather gradually becomes drier and colder, indicating that the coldest season of the year is coming. Many friends will talk about the confusion between the winter solstice and the beginning of the winter solstice. What's the difference between the beginning of the winter solstice and the beginning of the winter solstice!
[different meanings of time]
Beginning of winter
As the first solar term in winter, it begins around November 8 every year when the sun reaches 225 deg. Because of the difference between North and south latitude in China, the real meaning of winter is not based on the "beginning of winter", but on the continuous days when the temperature is lower than 10 ℃. But in the traditional concept of "winter" is "end also", the meaning of end. After the beginning of winter, the sunshine time will continue to shorten, and the height of the sun will continue to decrease at noon. In China, it is the beginning of winter.
Winter solstice
An important solar term in Chinese lunar calendar, the winter solstice is commonly known as "winter festival", "long to Festival", "sub year old", etc. It is the earliest of the 24 solar terms. On the day of the winter solstice, the sun reaches the southernmost point of the year, almost directly on the Tropic of cancer (23 & deg; 26 \ '). On the day of the winter solstice, the northern hemisphere receives the least sunlight, 50% less than the southern hemisphere. The days in the northern hemisphere are the shortest, and the more northward, the shorter.
[different climate features]
China is a vast country with tens of latitudes across from north to south, so there is a temperature difference between North and south. But after the beginning of winter, the temperature difference between the north and the south is even greater. Many places in the north have been dry, withered and cold, while South China is still green, with birds singing and flowers fragrant, warm and pleasant.
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. In terms of climate, during the winter solstice, the average temperature in the Northwest Plateau is generally below 0 ℃, and only about 6-8 ℃ in the south. In addition, when the winter solstice begins to count nine, the winter solstice day becomes the first day of counting nine.
What is the origin of the winter solstice
According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, there are folk activities of offering sacrifices to heaven from the winter solstice to the outskirts of the countryside. Because the first month of the Zhou calendar is the November of the Chinese calendar, so the first month of the Zhou Dynasty is equal to our present November, so there is no difference between the worship of new year and the celebration of new year. Until the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the summer calendar, the first month and the winter solstice were separated. Therefore, it can also be said that the winter festival was only after the Han Dynasty Yes, it flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties, and has existed since then.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the winter solstice was a day for worshiping the heaven and ancestors. On this day, the emperor would hold a ceremony for worshiping the heaven in the countryside. On this day, the people would worship their parents and elders. Now, there are still some places celebrating the winter solstice.
Because of the different calendars, the folk has been inheriting the Zhou calendar. They think that after the winter solstice is the beginning of the next year (only after eating Yuanzai, they will be one year older). This is also why the winter solstice is so valued by the folk. However, such a wrong inheritance makes the folk's view very different from the current calendar used in the day selection. Such a wrong idea should be This correction is right to pass on the correct calendar.