When is the winter solstice every year?

The winter solstice is a very important solar term in our country's lunar calendar and a traditional festival. It takes place between December 22 or 23 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The following is relevant content, welcome to read and understand.

When is the winter solstice every year?

? The winter solstice is between December 22 or 23 of each year:

Winter solstice time in 2017 : December 22, 00:27:53, the fifth day of the eleventh month of the 2017 lunar calendar (Big) 16

The 2019 Winter Solstice time: December 22, 12:19:18, the 27th day of the 11th month (small) in the lunar calendar 2019

The 2020 Winter Solstice time: December 21, 18:02:12, the seventh day of the eleventh lunar month in 2020

The 2021 winter solstice time: December 21, 23:59:09, the eleventh day of the lunar calendar in 2021 ( The 18th day of the lunar calendar year 2022

The winter solstice time in 2022: 05:48:01 on December 22, the 29th day of the 11th day of the lunar calendar in 2022

The winter solstice time in 2023: 12 11:27:09 on December 22, the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2023

The winter solstice time of 2024: 17:20:20 on December 21, the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2024 )21

The time of the 2025 Winter Solstice: 23:02:48 on December 21, the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2025

The Winter Solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "Changzhijie", "Yasui", etc. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,500 years ago, our country had used Tugui to observe the sun to determine the winter solstice. It was the earliest formula among the twenty-four solar terms.

In ancient my country, the Winter Solstice was taken very seriously. The Winter Solstice was regarded as a major festival. There was a saying that "the Winter Solstice is as big as the New Year", and there was a custom of celebrating the Winter Solstice. "The Book of Han" says: "The Yang Qi rises during the winter solstice, and the king is in charge, so congratulations." People believe that after the winter solstice, the days are getting longer day by day, and the rising Yang Qi is the beginning of a solar cycle and an auspicious day. It should be celebrate. "Book of Jin" records that "the winter solstice in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was congratulated by all nations and officials... Its ceremony was inferior to that of Zhengdan." This shows the importance attached to the winter solstice in ancient times.

The winter solstice festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and is still used today. "Qing Jia Lu" even said that "the winter solstice is as big as the new year". This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People believe that the winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang and a blessing from God. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was regarded as the "Winter Festival", and the government would hold a congratulatory ceremony called "Winter Congratulations" and have a routine holiday. There is such a record in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty": "Before and after the winter solstice, a gentleman settles down, keeps all officials in charge, does not listen to politics, and chooses auspicious times to save trouble." Therefore, on this day, the court has a holiday and rest, the army is on standby, the border fortress is in retreat, and the business travel is closed. , relatives and friends each give each other delicious food, visit each other, and happily spend a festival of "settle down and calm down".

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the winter solstice was a day for worshiping heaven and ancestors. On this day, the emperor would go to the countryside to hold a ceremony to worship heaven. On this day, people would worship their parents and elders. There are still some places where this day is held. Celebrate the winter solstice. The ancients believed that the winter solstice is the day when yin and yang pivot. After this day, yin energy gradually disappears and yang energy gradually grows. On the winter solstice, the emperor went to the Temple of Heaven to worship the heavens, and the next day he accepted congratulations from civil and military officials in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Winter Solstice Customs

? 1. Eating dumplings.

There is an old saying: "On October 1, the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings." It can be seen that eating dumplings during the winter solstice has become an indispensable custom. "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing once served as the prefect of Changsha. After resigning and returning to his hometown, he saw that the villagers were emaciated and hungry, and many of them had their ears rotten by the cold. So he ordered his disciples to build a stove, put mutton and cold-repelling medicinal materials in a pot and boil them, then take them out and chop them into pieces, and use bread to make "jiaoer" shaped like ears. After they were cooked, they were distributed to those who came to ask for medicine. People eat. After eating, people felt warm all over, their ears felt hot, and their frostbitten ears were cured. Later generations imitated the appearance of "Jiao Er" and wrapped them into food, which was called "dumplings".

?Two, ninety-nine to eliminate cold.

Start counting nine on the day after the winter solstice. This is what people call "counting nine in advance of winter". Counting nine days is one nine, counting another nine days is twenty-nine, and so on, until the number "nine-nine" is counted, the "nine" is exhausted. "Jiujin Yanghua blooms", then the weather will be warm. After the ninth lunar month, literati and poets engaged in so-called cold-relieving activities. They chose a "nine" day and invited nine people to drink together ("wine" and "nine" are homophonic). Nine dishes and nine bowls were used on the banquet, and "flower nine" was used for the table. "Piece" is used to take the meaning of ninety-nine to relieve the cold.

3. Worship heaven and ancestors.

Many areas have the custom of worshiping heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice, and there are still some places celebrating the winter solstice. Every household places family trees, ancestor images, memorial tablets, etc. in the upper hall of the home, sets up the offering table, arranges incense burners, offerings, etc. While worshiping ancestors, some places also offer sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, and kowtow to the gods to pray for good weather and prosperity for the family and everything in the coming year.

An inventory of winter solstice customs in various places

? Chaoshan people eat winter festival pills during the winter solstice

There is a folk proverb in Chaoshan that "winter festival pills will celebrate the new year as soon as you eat them", commonly known as " "Tian Sui" means that although the new year has not passed yet, everyone has added one year old.

Children are most looking forward to eating this bowl of sweet pills. They often wake up at night and ask if it's dawn yet. However, the sky seems to be playing a joke on the children, and it's always dark. Therefore, there is a popular saying: "Winter Festival Night, long, long, long. The nursery rhyme "The sweet pills are not boiled until the sun shines".

? Hakka people make wine during the winter solstice

The Hakka people believe that the water at the winter solstice has the most mellow taste, and the wine brewed with it can be stored for a long time, is soft and refreshing, and sweet and refreshing. , with plenty of stamina. Therefore, it has become a custom for Hakka people to make wine during the winter solstice. For this day, Hakka housewives often choose an auspicious day, go to the market to buy wine-making equipment, move the old wine jars to the stream, wash away the dirt with fine yellow sand, and then let the cool spring water repeat the process. Rinse and finally place in a cool place to air dry.

? Sichuan eats mutton soup during the winter solstice

In Sichuan, mutton soup is eaten during the winter solstice. Tonify the body and treat common cold coughs, chronic bronchitis, asthma due to cold deficiency, impotence due to kidney deficiency, cold abdominal pain, physical weakness intolerance to cold, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, sallow complexion, thin skin, deficiency of both qi and blood, and post-illness conditions.

?Hangzhou people eat rice cakes during the Winter Solstice

Eating rice cakes From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China until now, Hangzhou people like to eat rice cakes during the winter solstice. During the winter solstice, we make three meals of rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes with sesame powder mixed with white sugar. At noon, we eat fried rice cakes with fried vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, and shredded pork. For dinner, we eat rice cakes in soup with mustard mustard, shredded pork, and shredded bamboo shoots. Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will make you grow taller every year, which is auspicious.

?Cantonese people eat barbecued pork during the Winter Solstice

On the Winter Solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of eating winter solstice meat with "added vegetables". Among them, roasted pork is an indispensable traditional food on the Cantonese table during the Winter Solstice. While worshiping their ancestors, the whole family prepares some bacon and sausages for a meal to pray for good luck in the coming year.

?Eat red bean and glutinous rice during the Winter Solstice in Hunan

In Hunan and Hubei, you must eat red bean and glutinous rice on the day of the winter solstice. Glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature. It can nourish the body's righteousness. After eating it, the whole body will feel hot. It has the function of keeping out the cold and nourishing. It is most suitable to be eaten in winter. It would be better if black glutinous rice can be used. Black glutinous rice can help mothers nourish the physical weakness caused by postpartum, help increase milk and breastfeed babies. According to legend, there was a man named Mr. Gong whose son was not successful and committed many evil deeds. He died on the winter solstice. After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off plague ghosts and prevent disasters and diseases.

Winter Solstice Poems

?Nine-Nine Songs

One Nine-Nine-Two-Nine will not take action; Three-Nine-Nine-Nine will walk on the ice;

Five Ninety-sixty-nine watch the willows along the river; eighty-nine and eighty-nine wild geese come in when the river blooms;

Ninety-nine plus one and nine, plowing cattle are everywhere.

? Xiaozhi

(Tang Dynasty) Du Fu

The weather, people, and the sun are urging each other, and the winter solstice is full of sunshine and spring comes again.

The five lines of embroidery are added with weak threads, and the six pipes are blown to move the fly ash.

The shore is waiting for the wax generals to relax the willows, and the mountains are cold and want to bloom the plum blossoms.

The clouds and things are not different from each other. The country is different. I teach my children to hold the cup in their hands.

?Winter Solstice

(Tang Dynasty) Du Fu

I have been a guest every year on the solstice, but sometimes I am poor and worried, and I am killing people!

The river describes me as an old man, and the customs of the sky are close to each other.

After the snow, the stick quinoa comes to the Dan Valley, and the singing jade comes to disperse the purple dust.

My heart is broken at this moment. Where can I see Sanqin if I am lost on the road?

?Winter Solstice Night in Handan

(Tang Dynasty) Bai Juyi

On the winter solstice in Handan Posthouse, the shadows in front of the lanterns hugging one's knees accompany me.

I want to sit at home late at night and talk about people traveling far away.

Winter Solstice Proverbs

Most proverbs reflect the practical life experience of working people, and are generally passed down orally. As one of the important solar terms in our country, the winter solstice naturally has many proverbs about the winter solstice. The proverbs about the winter solstice are full of working people’s long-standing observations and summaries of farming. Let’s take a look at the proverbs about the winter solstice:

1. Winter is in the head, and a cow will be sold for its head; winter is in the waist, and it will freeze to death. Cat; winter is at the end, and the ghost will freeze to death.

2. If the winter solstice is sunny, it will rain every year.

3. When the winter solstice is dark, it will be sparse during the New Year; when it is sparse during the winter solstice, it will be dark during the New Year. (Black means rain)

4. The winter solstice is warm and it will be cold until mid-March; the winter solstice is cold and the spring will be warm early.

5. There is a strong north wind in the winter solstice, so be careful to prevent frost.

6. It snows on the winter solstice, and the rivers are full of water on the summer solstice.

7. The winter solstice is at the beginning, and the old cow froze to death; the winter solstice is in the middle, and one has to spend the winter in single clothes; the winter solstice is at the end, and one regrets not having a stove.

8. During the winter solstice, the rain and stars are unknown, and heavy snow makes it difficult to walk

9. The northwest wind blows at the winter solstice, and the coming year will be dry and springy.

10. The south wind will be cloudy for a hundred days during the winter solstice

11. It will be cloudy for the winter and sunny for the new year

12. The winter solstice is at the beginning of the month, and it is the end of the great cold season; In the middle of the month, the weather is cold and there is no frost; the winter solstice is at the end of the month, and the severe cold is in February.

13. During the winter solstice, one plow is worth one gold. Plow gold before the winter solstice, and plow iron after the winter solstice.

14. At the beginning of the winter solstice, the weather is warm; in the middle of the winter solstice, the weather is cold; at the end of the winter solstice, the weather is late.

15. If the weather is fine during the winter solstice, hundreds of fruits will grow in the coming year.