Winter solstice (English: winter solstice), also known as "winter festival" and "Celebrating winter", is one of the 24 solar terms. It is said that the Zhou Dynasty in the history of winter solstice is new year's day, which used to be a very busy day. 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 this day, the sun in the northern hemisphere is the least, and the day in the northern hemisphere is the shortest, and the more northward, the shorter. So what do you mean by the winter solstice every day? The origin of eating dumplings from the winter solstice.
It is quite common to eat dumplings at the winter solstice in northern China. As the saying goes: 'when the winter solstice comes, eat dumplings. 'in the south, there are also exceptions, such as the winter solstice in Tengzhou and other places in Shandong Province, which is called the number nine. The custom of drinking mutton soup on the day of the number nine is popular, which means to dispel the cold.
Solar term refers to 24 seasons and climate. It is a supplementary calendar established in ancient China to guide farming. It is the crystallization of accumulated achievements and wisdom of the long-term experience of the working people of the Chinese nation. Since ancient China was an agricultural society, agriculture needed to strictly understand the operation of the sun, and farming was carried out completely according to the sun, so it was added to the calendar to reflect the operation of the sun separately The 'twenty-four solar terms' of a cycle, used as a standard for determining leap months. The 24 solar terms in China are based on Henan. Chinese lunar calendar is a combination of yin and Yang, which is based on the movement of the sun and the moon, so adding 24 solar terms can better reflect the cycle of the sun.
The 24 solar terms are: spring, rain, Jingzhe, chunfen, Qingming, Guyu, Lixia, Xiaoman, Mangchong, summer solstice, Xiaoshu, Dashu, Liqiu, Chushu, Bailu, Qiufen, Hanlu, frostfall, Lidong, Xiaoxue, Blizzard, winter solstice, Xiaohan and Dashan.
On November 30, 2016, China's "24 solar terms" were officially included in the list of UNESCO's representative works of human intangible cultural heritage.