Do you know the custom of winter solstice?

Winter solstice is one of the 24 solar terms and an important traditional festival. This is the shortest day and the longest night in a year. The winter solstice festival contains the richest contents and customs, so there are many aliases, such as winter festival, long solstice festival, short solstice festival, happy winter festival, Yiyang festival, and other titles, such as sub-year-old, fat winter and happy winter. There are many important customs. I have carefully arranged five customs below. Let's have a look.

First, give shoes.

On the winter solstice, people will give shoes. This custom originated in ancient times and is mainly reflected in children, hoping that children will grow up healthily. It used to be mainly hand embroidery. As a gift for boys, hats are mostly made in the shape of tigers and dogs, and embroidered shoes are also beasts. For girls, hats are mostly made in the shape of phoenix, and embroidery on shoes is mostly flowers and birds. Now most of them are purchased from the market, and the form keeps up with the trend of the times. On holidays, adults always like to drop in to see their children and praise the shoes and hats given by their uncles and aunts.

Second, ancestor worship.

"The winter solstice is like a year", and the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice.

Our ancestors believed that the winter solstice was full of yang and the monarch was long, which was an opportunity to control the chaos. Since the Han Dynasty, celebrations have been held everywhere. In the Song Dynasty, this custom reached its peak. Three days after the festival, officials greeted him, and the people did not listen to politics, so the city was closed for three days. It is said that Mencius died in the winter of solstice, and the villagers were very sad. As a result, the ceremony to celebrate the winter solstice was abolished. Gradually, the solstice has developed from a winter celebration to a winter memorial to ancestors. ?

Three, count to 99

Folk call the solstice of winter "nine to nine" or "nine to nine", that is, from the date of winter solstice, the weather turns from the cold of winter solstice to "warm spring and deep days" Because the process of "counting nine" is the process that the cold pole turns warm and the cold disappears and warms up, people often call this 998 1 day "nine days" and "counting nine cold days".

After the solstice of winter, 99 is very popular all over the country. People all over the country have compiled various proverbs and fluency according to different climatic conditions, geomorphological characteristics, agricultural phenology and customs. For example, in the north, "don't shoot in 1929, walk on the ice in 3949, look at willows along the river in 5969, open geese in 79, and plow cattle everywhere in 99 and 19."

Fourth, eat jiaozi.

In northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi from the winter solstice of the lunar calendar every year. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." This winter solstice custom is to commemorate. Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", gave up medicine and left it on the solstice of winter. Of course, there are exceptions, such as the custom of drinking mutton soup from winter solstice in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, which means driving away the cold.

Five, eat jiaozi.

In the south, it is popular to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, and there is also a folk saying that "eating jiaozi is one year older". Tangyuan, also known as jiaozi, is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection", so eating tangyuan in winter solstice is also called "jiaozi in winter solstice". Tangyuan can be used for ancestor worship or as a gift to relatives and friends.

Winter solstice is a rich festival. It is said that New Year's Day was the winter from the Japanese to the Zhou Dynasty in history, which used to be a very lively day. Many customs that have been passed down to this day have disappeared. I only know that the above is the custom of winter solstice that I have carefully arranged for you. If you have anything to add or say, please leave a message in the comments section below.