When is the winter solstice in 2015: on December 22nd

Winter solstice of 2015 time: on December 22, 2015, according to the lunar calendar in November 12 on Tuesday.

Winter solstice is a very important solar term in Chinese lunar calendar, is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the winter solstice, also called yesterday, He Dong, a summerThe 24 solar termsOne of the traditional winter solstice on half month is the feast of dense festival atmosphere.This day is the day was shortest in the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the night;In this day and in many parts of the northern ChinaEat dumplingsEat dumplings to eat pumpkin, southern customs, saying: the winter solstice to eat dumplings, and poetry and film and television works on the throttle.

The winter solstice is on December 22, 2015, according to the lunar calendar in November 12.

Do: marry, sacrifice, praying, shinji, medallion

Don't: logging, made beam, digging, bed, ground

The origin of the winter solstice

Winter solstice festival from the han dynasty, sheng in the tang and song dynasty, down to the present day."Qing jia recorded" or even "the winter solstice as big as a year".This suggests that the ancients to the winter solstice attaches great importance to.The winter solstice is believed to be of Yin and Yang two gas natural transformation, is god-given happiness.The han dynasty in the winter solstice, for "yesterday", the rulers to congratulate ceremony known as "He Dong", a regular holiday.

"Were" has such records: "before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman place static body, baiguan, scenes, and then pick an auspicious day Chen save trouble."So this celestial court and off to rest, to the army on standby, frontier retreat, business travel out of business, family and all distinctions to food, visit each other, and never said a word to a "safe static body" festival.Tang and song period, the winter solstice is the day of worship worship ancestors, the emperor held outside the day to worship, the people in this day to the parents or elders worship, now there are still some places in the winter solstice this day is a holiday to celebrate.

The custom of the winter solstice

The source of the winter solstice festival holiday

The winter solstice and wuyi folkThe Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn festival and classified as four large sections, say again: "winter solstice festival holiday."Winter festival is Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn festival to be lively, the atmosphere is tranquil and solemn.Winter solstice, is the most important ancestor worship.Each worth kill chickens slaughtered ducks, prepare wine meat, fruit, Ci cakes, dumplings, held a grand ceremonies, and family to eat a sumptuous dinner, to celebrate reunion, the harvest.

Winter solstice sacrifices to ancestors, tangyuan is indispensable.After the autumn harvest, new techniques, families had pounded good glutinous rice powder, then make dumplings.In general, tangyuan has a variety of glutinous rice flour for the skin, brown sugar block for filling, call Lizzie dumplings;Also have a fry grated cheese hemp, peanuts and sugar, mix well for filling, called sesame dumplings;Crush all the wet glutinous rice powder rub round, with thick ginger syrup boiled, refers to the sugar packets of dumplings, also called "sugar don't jilt";There is a salty dumplings, filling, with pig meat, shrimp, turnip 崐 wire, mustard wire roll soup.

Worship of ancestors successively, family at the table eating dumplings, from the meaning of reunion.In addition to the family's food, but also give his neighbour, and celebrate the harvest.Have the first folk sings: "winter solstice in November, cloud, every family cook round Ci, carry (hold) bowl mother-in-law (neighborhood) hedge, well carry big sister a stomach gas."Although the winter solstice dumplings every family has a, still need to exchange gifts, in order to show in the neighbourhood.After the autumn harvest, the winter solstice, need to prepare for the next year's livelihood again.Farmers' life, chi zhang, at this time from this Angle on the arrangement of the production and living, and economic spending, said it is "winter solstice festival holiday".

The winter solstice to eat?

The winter solstice eat dumplings

Winter solstice this day lunar calendar, rich or poor, rice dumplings is indispensable festival.Proverbs cloud: "October, the winter solstice that every household to eat dumplings."This custom, it is because of the memory of "the medical sage" zhang zhongjing winter solstice medicine left.

The winter solstice eat dog meat

The winter solstice the custom of eating dog meat is starts from the han dynasty.According to legend, the emperor gaozu liu bang had hurried to cook in the winter solstice this day of dog meat, feel special taste delicious, full of praise.From now on in the folk form the custom of the winter solstice to eat dog meat.Now people are in the winter solstice this day, to eat dog meat, mutton, and all kinds of nourishing food, in order to have a good one million next year.

Jiangnan "red bean sticky rice"

In the south of the lower reaches of the yangze river, there is the winter solstice eve the whole family together, a total of the tradition of eating red bean sticky rice.According to legend, there was a man called gong gong's, his son is not success, evil, died in the winter solstice this day, after the death of become ghosts, continue to injure people.However, the most afraid of the ghosts of red bean, as a result, the people is cooked on the day of winter solstice eat red bean meal, to ward off evil spirits, disaster prevention illnesses.

Beijing "wonton"

There used to be "the summer solstice winter solstice wonton noodles in the old Beijing".From the han dynasty, the northern xiongnu often harassed the frontier, and the people.At the time the huns tribes have muddy and the chariot's two princes, ferocious.It is anathema to the people, then wrapped meat into corners, "muddy" and "chariot" voice, calling for "wonton".Hate to eat and to quell the war, can live a peaceful life.For initially made wonton is the winter solstice this day, in the winter solstice this day every household to eat wonton.

Henan "pinch frozen ear"

Eat "pinch frozen ear" is commonly known as the winter solstice henan people eat dumplings.Why have this kind of eat custom?From nanyang medical sage zhang zhongjing in changsha, the officer, he retired royal was optimum is heavy snow in winter, the cold to the bone.He saw on both sides of the nanyang baihe folks clothed, there are quite a few people's ears were frozen rotten, the in the mind very sad, just call the disciple in nanyang kanto set up medical tent, with the lamb, peppers and some cold medicine placed the pot boiled, scoop out chop and the appearance of a surface casing imaging ears, and down the pot boiled, made a "cold ear soup" masking drugs alms to the people to eat.After swallowing, folks ears are cured.Later, every winter solstice people imitate do eat, is therefore form a "pinch frozen ear" this kind of custom.Later people call it "dumplings, some call it" dumpling "and" steamed dumplings ", people were eating the dumplings the winter solstice is not frozen.

Tengzhou mutton soup

The custom of the winter solstice eat mutton is starts from the han dynasty.According to legend, the emperor gaozu liu bang on the day of winter solstice eat hurried boiled mutton, feel special taste delicious, full of praise.From now on in folk formed the custom of the winter solstice eat mutton.People are in the winter solstice this day, mutton and various nourishing food, in order to have a good one million next year.Now the shandong tengzhou area winter solstice every family would you like to have mutton soup.

Taiwan's delicious cake

Taiwan in China also keep the tradition of the winter solstice with nine layer cake ancestor worship, glutinous rice powder molded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cattle, sheep and other symbol propitious like ferro longevity of animals, and then use bamboo steamer layered steamed into, used to worship ancestors, to show does not forget ancestors.Namesake consanguinity agreed on or before and after the winter solstice at an early date, set to the ancestral shrine in sequence according to his birthright, ancestor worship, commonly known as the "ancestor worship".After the festival, will also big banquets, entertain to ancestor worship of the clan.You drink, very unfamiliar feeling, contact each other after referred to as "food."Winter festival ancestors, has been passed from generation to generation in Taiwan, in time for their "roots".Carrots, vegetables, tofu, black fungus, and so on.

Taizhou rolling round

Zhejiang taizhou people good food, the winter solstice is important solar term, a year on this day to do some dishes and food, first of all, worshiping ancestors, praying ancestors bless family peace all year.Then the whole family together with joydrinkingEat food.Which eat "winter solstice circle" (rolling circle, also called hard rolling circle, turn over the rough circle) is taizhou old tradition, rolling round pick up since, meaning reunion.

The "winter"

"Winter solstice festival holiday, every eat dumplings.Mr Don't have a holiday, students don't give money "- Macao folk songs.

Macau, people in the winter solstice to ancestor worship, want to goThe graveBefore hanging paper, commonly known as the "winter".So red street next to mee shop good business than usual, with mee shop and chickens, told reporters, head of the winter solstice has a lot of people buy a roast chicken, meat and other treats.

Guangdong dumplings

Winter solstice festival, many places in guangdong have the custom of ancestor worship, in addition to households with meat dishes that look, fruit wine, tangyuan worship, and the ZongTong ancestor worship, ancestor worship organized by tribal unity, some tend to be heldKill pigSlaughter cattle, acting for god and so on, remember the patriarch ceremony, such as read genealogy, history and so on.

Average household also steamed cake, make grain of jialing, dumplings, etc., kill chickens and kill ducks, and prepared a hearty dinner, to celebrate.Yesterday they eat tangyuan is salty, with yam bean, pork, shrimp paste, with chicken soup, yuexi area with a leaves the dumplings package, called "food package".Past guang fu people have the habit of "fish on the winter solstice, the summer solstice dog meat", QuDaJun wrote in "new threads of guangdong", "double butterfly food such as flow, wins the autumn winter solstice fish."Not because of the food fish but health, instead of after the fight and the furnace (hot pot) and boiled dog meat, to eat before and after the holiday.

In addition, people is fond of making "dried ginger" during the winter solstice, is called "ginger" winter, big fire of vital gate;Without hot;Also like the ground powder before the winter solstice, is called the "powder" before the winter, for the Chinese New Year making rice cakes, it is said that "before the winter powder".

Suzhou wine

Gusu region of winter solstice attach great importance to the throttle gusu areas they cloud: "the winter solstice, such as annual".Traditional gusu somebody else, you will be in the winter night to drink wine, winter winter wine is a kind of rice wine, add osmanthus brewing, pleasant aroma.Gusu people in winter solstice winter night drinking wine at the same time, still can match with spiced beef, stewed mutton, etc all kinds of keeping.In the cold winter, winter wine to drive not only cold, but also for gusu people to the life of a good wish.

Jiangxi ma Ci

A specialty of hemp Ci, zhejiang, jiangxi, and fujian, the traditional snacks, fujian, sacrificial offerings.Ma Yin dry sand steamed, Fried, grilled, Fried after all appropriate.