How much do you know about beginning of winter customs?

He Dong, also known as "winter worship", had this custom in the Han Dynasty. "Four-person Moon Order" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "On the day of the winter solstice, it is like a sunny day to honor the old with wine and food." On this day in the Song Dynasty, people put on new clothes and celebrated exchanges, just like New Year's Day. In the Qing dynasty, "the solstice is the winter solstice, and the literati pay homage to their elders and pay tribute to each other." Fine people, men and women, also bow to each other with fresher clothes, which is called "worship of winter". He Dong's traditional customs seem to be simplified. However, some activities are gradually fixed, stylized and more universal. For example, in winter schools, teacher-worshipping activities are held in winter.

In some places, the way to celebrate beginning of winter is also innovative. In Harbin, Heilongjiang, Shangqiu, Henan, Yichun, Jiangxi, Wuhan, Hubei and other places, winter swimmers welcome the arrival of winter in this way. Winter swimming is people's favorite exercise in winter, whether in the north or the south.

Dietary customs

Beginning of winter has the custom of eating jiaozi. Beginning of winter, wrapped in jiaozi, tastes different from Chinese cabbage, but also dipped in vinegar and rotten garlic to eat, just don't have a taste. Why does beginning of winter eat jiaozi? Because our country is based on agriculture and attaches great importance to the 24 solar terms, "Festival" is a new growth point of vegetation. Autumn harvest and winter storage, this day, in order to improve our life, we chose "delicious but jiaozi". Therefore, there is a saying in the Book of Rites that "eating melons is also the first sacrifice". On the solstice of winter, there was a custom of "Winter Solstice Festival" in ancient China.

Astronomy regards "beginning of winter" as the beginning of winter, but according to the division of climatology, China will postpone winter for about 20 days. In early winter, the sun has reached the longitude of 225 degrees, and our northern hemisphere gets less and less solar radiation. However, due to the heat stored on the surface in summer and some energy, it is generally not too cold, but the temperature is gradually decreasing. When there is no wind on a sunny day, sunny, warm and comfortable "Xiaoyangchun" weather often appears in October.

After beginning of winter, it means that winter is officially coming. Vegetation withers, stingers sleep, and all activities tend to stop. Although there is no such thing as hibernation, there is a folk custom of making up for winter in beginning of winter. In cold weather, you should eat more warm and nutritious food, which can not only make your body stronger, but also play a good role in keeping out the cold.

Eat dumplings

Why does beginning of winter eat jiaozi? Because intercourse comes from the saying of "sexual intercourse time". New Year's Eve is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter. When jiaozi is in love, he can't help eating. People gradually restored this ancient custom. At the beginning of winter, all kinds of jiaozi are very popular. Of course, on the day of winter solstice, Tengzhou, Shandong Province also has the custom of drinking mutton soup.

Autumn harvest and winter planting

This season is a good time to harvest in autumn and plant in winter. All localities should make full use of fine weather to do a good job in harvesting, drying and drying late rice to ensure storage quality. We should pay close attention to winter wheat sowing, pay attention to the weather forecast, make good use of the weather, and sow early when it rains. When it rains, it is best to sow early, ensure the sowing quality, try to bring tillers through the winter, prevent jointing during the year, expand the winter planting area as much as possible and reduce idle fields. All localities should do a good job in planting, repairing water conservancy and storing chemical fertilizers in winter.

Vegetable planting

After beginning of winter, we should do a good job in greenhouse construction in time. At the same time, do a good job in the management of greenhouse vegetables. When the temperature is high during the day, you can uncover the film at the back air outlet for ventilation, and pay attention to the sealing of the greenhouse at night. In North China and Huanghuai areas, when the average temperature of the day drops to about 4℃, and the soil in the field freezes at night and disappears during the day, we must seize the opportunity to water the winter water of wheat, vegetables and orchards, replenish soil moisture, improve the microclimate environment in the field, prevent "drought to help the cold" and reduce and avoid freezing injury. In Jiangnan and South China, it is an important measure to open the "high-yield ditch" in the field in time and do a good job in cleaning and drainage.