Broadcasting about the winter solstice

Since winter solstice, the days have become longer and longer. People take the shadow of the sun before noon as the standard and say, "After winter, an onion grows every day". So it is also called "Dragon Come". Since the Han and Tang dynasties, ladies-in-waiting have used an extra thread every day from winter to the future. This is what the folks say, "After eating the winter solstice meal, the queue will become longer one day." Since the winter solstice, people often draw 8 1 petal on plum blossoms, which is called "99 cold map". If a petal is painted red every day, it will be "Jiujiu", so the solstice in winter is also called "Counting Nine".

"Winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles", a considerable number of people in Shandong Province will eat wonton or jiaozi on this day. Some people even drink. It is said that drinking is to warm the body. Eating jiaozi is afraid of freezing ears. "jiaozi" is homophonic with "rubber ears". Linyi, Zoucheng and Xintai have the custom of steaming winter. Linyi whole grains steamed bread, Zoucheng steamed bread. It is said that steaming winter is to pray for wind in the coming year. The folk song says, "Steaming in winter, steaming in winter, there is wind in the field." In ancient times, steaming winter was to celebrate the sun solstice. After the winter solstice, the sun was born, just as Du Fu wrote in his poem, "The sun was born in the winter solstice, and spring came again." People use glutinous rice flour to make rice balls, which are called Tuanjiezi or Winter Solstice Ball, symbolizing reunion. Bobo and steamed buns are the evolution of reunion.

The ancient solstice attached great importance to winter. The ancients believed that the solstice in winter was an opportunity for chaos and recovery. The celebration ceremony has been held since the Han Dynasty and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. The day before solstice winter is called minor solstice or minor winter, while solstice winter is called long solstice or major winter. The day after winter, the solstice is named the solstice. On the third day of the festival, hundreds of officials greet each other, but you don't listen to the government. On the third day, the people closed and the students had a holiday. Folk songs say that "the solstice in winter is as big as a year", so in the old society, Lijin, Xiajin and other places are also called Zinian and Xiaonian, which are similar to the Spring Festival, but there is no New Year greeting. In Jinan, Jiyang, Fushan and other places, the government celebrated like the Chinese New Year, and literati also gave each other congratulatory films. The scholar-bureaucrat class in Juxian held a reception, which was called the "Cold Elimination Meeting" and drew a "Cold Elimination Map". Zoucheng painted "Nine Nine Paintings", at the same time, relatives and friends gave each other warm utensils, while the children of the farmers played the game of "occupying the village" and "playing tiles". Teenagers began to learn martial arts, calling it "watching winter", but they didn't have the habit of congratulating each other. It is said that Mencius died on the winter solstice, and the villagers were very sad, so they canceled the ceremony to celebrate the winter solstice. In other parts of Shandong province, students generally worship teachers, younger generations and elders, and farmers have the custom of worshipping their ancestors. Linyi folk believe that the solstice in winter is the day to send cold clothes and repair houses to the dead. Every household cuts clothes with fire paper, burns them in front of the tomb, and adds soil. Juxian county worships ancestors in the ancestral temple, and the ceremony is very grand. It is an ancient custom in Laoshan County to divide the winter solstice into two days. The first day is called "Ghost Winter", which is the day to worship ancestors and eat jiaozi. The next day is called "human winter", and we eat steamed stuffed buns. Women in Linyi, Licheng and Linqu are used to going back to their parents' homes. Qingyun and Emperor Wu began to cellar vegetables from this day, and women began to sew. Zoucheng began to build cellars, weave mats and spin yarns. Rizhao folklore If the clouds meet the sunrise and the clouds meet the sunset on the solstice in winter, then the coming year will be a good year. According to the date of winter solstice, Jimo people predict the cold and warm in the winter at the beginning, middle or end of the month. The folk song says: "Frozen cows in winter, warm in winter, frozen ghosts in winter."