Today's winter solstice
The winter solstice is an important solar term with both natural and humanistic connotations, and is the 22nd solar term in the 24 solar terms, and this day is also a traditional Chinese folk festival.
The winter solstice is the starting point of the sun's return, since the winter solstice, the height of the sun rises, the day increases day by day, the winter solstice marks the new birth of the sun, the sun moves back and forth into a new cycle, so the ancients regarded the winter solstice as a "auspicious day", in the eight festivals of the year, the importance of the winter solstice is no less than the beginning of the spring festival.
Winter solstice phenology
One wait: earthworm knots
On the day of the winter solstice, the "earthworm knot", the earthworm feels the yin qi curling, the yang qi is stretched, and the six yin and cold poles are tangled like a knot.
Second Candidate: Elk Horn Solution
Five days after the winter solstice, the "elk horn solution", the deer belongs to the yang, the mountain beast, feeling the yin and the summer solstice to solve the horn. The moose belongs to the yin, the beast, and the yang energy is solved at the winter solstice.
Three waits: the water spring moves
On the fifth day, the water spring moved, and the water was born by the sun of Tianyi, and now a yang was born, so the water spring has been secretly flowing.
Winter solstice health
The winter solstice is an important solar term in traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, in ancient China, the winter solstice was set as the month of the month, that is, the beginning of the year, in the twelve hours of the day, the time of the child is also the time when the human body is born.
Ancient health cultivation attached great importance to the period of the first birth of yang energy, because only when the yang energy in the human body is sufficient, can the purpose of dispelling illness and prolonging life be achieved.
The winter solstice coincides with the end of the year and the beginning of the year, and it will soon usher in New Year's Day, during which there are many gatherings, remember not to overeat, because at this time, the yang energy is the weakest and cannot help the body to transport too much food.
Winter solstice customs
On the day of the winter solstice, people have special dietary customs, and in the past, they paid attention to "the winter solstice is as big as the year", and also prayed for health, happiness and auspiciousness.
Stuffed rice wine
The traditional Gusu family will drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, and the glutinous rice or yellow rice used for winter wine will be brewed with osmanthus flowers.
Eat dumplings
Every year on the winter solstice, northern China wants to eat dumplings on this day, because dumplings have the meaning of "cooling off", and there is still a folk proverb that "the winter solstice does not serve the dumpling bowl, and no one cares if the ears are frozen".
Eat glutinous rice balls
In southern China, there is a custom of eating tangyuan. "Tangyuan" is a necessary food for the winter solstice, "Yuan" means "reunion" and "consummation", eating Tangyuan on the winter solstice is also called "Winter Solstice Yuan", and the folk have "eating Tangyuan is one year old".
Winter solstice artifacts
One winter solstice a year, one year old and one healthy. The winter solstice, this is a season of cold and freezing, and it is also a season of looking forward to spring. The winter solstice is here, will spring be far away?
We invite you to visit how the soldiers of the Zhongshan ship in the past spent the winter solstice with the shortest day and the longest night
At the beginning of the 20th century, bronze hanging lamps were made in England
This lamp is an oil lamp made in England and is made of a combination of copper and glass. The front of the lamp body is semi-cylindrical, and inlaid with a thick semi-circular arc-shaped transparent lampshade, the back is flat, can be opened, and the wick can be placed inside. The upper part of the oil lamp is inlaid with an English nameplate "J."c&w.Lord" "Birmingham", there is a pulley for rope in the handle area.
The inscription "Birmingham" on the hanging lamp is the British city of Birmingham, which is the second largest city in the United Kingdom after London, and is the center of the steel industry in the United Kingdom on the railway trunk line from central England and London to Liverpool, with many industrial sectors, mainly heavy industry.
The Zhongshan ship was restructured
"Diligence and merit"."Ru Song's Sheng" copper cartridge shell pen holder
Both pen holders are made from used shell shells, which are engraved with the words "Diligence and Merit" and "Prosperity of Songs" respectively. In addition, it was also found that there were "strive for self-improvement" and "self-cleansing" pen holders, which were also made from bullet shells.
It can be seen that the officers and men of the Zhongshan ship are not only diligent and thrifty, turning waste into treasure, turning the discarded cartridge case into a delicate and practical pen holder, but also a piece of art for their own innovation, and more importantly, they place their feelings and lofty ambitions on the small cartridge shell pen holder, which is not only beautiful and practical, but also has an inspirational effect.
On the day of the winter solstice, the soldiers of the Zhongshan ship sat around the hearth to experience the feeling of "the winter solstice is as big as the year", or to eat a plate of steaming dumplings, or to come to a bowl of soft glutinous and sweet rice balls, with a longing for a better life, looking forward to the return of spring together.
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Text, edited by Zou Cheng.
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