What does the winter solstice in July and a half mean every year?

1 and July 30th are the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on August 15 and July 15th of the lunar calendar.

According to legend, from July 1st every year, the King of Yan ordered the gates of hell to be opened wide, so that the ghosts who suffered and were imprisoned in hell all the year round could get out of hell, get a short stroll and enjoy human blood. Therefore, people call July a ghost month, and this month is considered as an unlucky month, neither getting married nor moving.

2. The winter solstice is the 22nd of the 24 solar terms. Every year, the solar calendar is around 65438+February 22nd, and the winter solstice means that it will be nine days, and the coldest weather is coming.

Now, some places still celebrate the winter solstice as a festival. The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton from winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles from winter solstice on this day. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in winter solstice in various regions.

In China's traditional theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, the winter solstice is the key solar term of Yin-Yang transformation. In the twelfth year, divination is a complicated divination in a mine, which is called "winter solstice is a sunny life". At the same time, the setting of leap month is also based on the winter solstice, because the winter solstice is always in the winter month, which is the first month of Zhou Zheng's lunar calendar.