Friday, December 22, 2023.
The tenth day of the winter month of the lunar calendar, the winter solstice.
It's all over the northern hemisphere.
The day with the shortest day and the longest night.
When it comes to the winter solstice, it marks that it is about to enter the cold season, and the folk began to "count nine" to count the cold days.
Folk proverb: The summer solstice is three Geng, and the winter solstice is nine.
The winter solstice, also known as the southern solstice, the winter festival, the year of the year, etc., has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is an auspicious day, as said in the "Book of Han".
The winter solstice is yang, and the monarch is long, so he congratulates. ”
After the winter solstice, the days are getting longer and the sun is rising, which is the beginning of a cycle of direct sunlight and back and forth, which should be celebrated.
The winter solstice is divided into three phases:
A wait for the earthworm to knot;
The second waiting for the elk horn solution;
Three waiting for the water spring to move. ”
It means that the earthworm in the soil is still curled up
The elk felt that the yin qi gradually receded and dissolved.
Since the direct point of the sun returns to the north after the winter solstice, the sun's round-trip movement enters a new cycle, and the height of the sun rises from then on, and the days increase day by day.
It can flow and be warm.
The winter solstice is as big as the year".
Since the winter solstice, the height of the sun has risen
The days are growing day by day, and the winter solstice marks the rebirth of the sun
The sun's round-trip movement has entered a new cycle, so the ancients regarded the winter solstice as a "auspicious day", and among the eight festivals of the year, the winter solstice is no less important than the beginning of spring.
In southern China, there is the custom of worshipping ancestors and feasting on the winter solstice.
In northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year.
Yi said: The first king retreated to the solstice, and business travel was not good.
Later Han Book Etiquette":
Before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is quiet, and the officials are desperate. ”
It is also necessary to select "capable people", drum and blow the sheng, and play the "law of the yellow bell" to celebrate.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, the winter solstice and the beginning of the year were equally important.
Southern Song Dynasty Meng Yuan Lao "Tokyo Menghualu":
November winter solstice.
The most important festival in Beijing, although the poor, between a year, accumulate pretenses, to this day is easier to new clothes, prepare food, enjoy the ancestors.
The official release is closed and celebrated, just like the New Year's Festival. ”
Draw Nine". The so-called painting nine is actually a diagram for calculating the spring warm date after the winter solstice.
The Ming Dynasty's "Imperial Scenery and Things" contains:
On the winter solstice, a branch of Sumei is painted, and there is one in eighty petals.
The sun dyes a petal, the petal is exhausted and the ninety-nine is out, then the spring is deep, and it is said that the ninety-nine cold picture".
There are three kinds of schemas, namely text, circle, and plum blossom.
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.
In ancient Suzhou, on the night of the winter solstice, everyone had a feast and drink, and everyone ate winter wine.
It is known for its very light taste of wine, such as wine soup, and its many names.
Clear and mellow "osmanthus wine".
"Autumn dew white" with a sweet and sweet fragrance
Home-brewed thin sake "Du Mao Chai".
Mellow and pure "three liquors".
The color is clear and fragrant "October White".
Herbs are brewed, and the "wall is clear" for more than a month
Brewed but not cooked, the "raw swill" ...... that can be drunk
Everyone's happy. 
Eat glutinous rice balls. Eating glutinous rice balls is a traditional custom on the winter solstice, especially prevalent in Jiangnan.
"Tangyuan" is a necessary food for the winter solstice, "round" means "reunion" and "consummation", and eating tangyuan on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice round".
There is a folk saying that "one year older after eating rice balls".
Eat roasted meat and ginger rice.
Some places in the south have to eat roasted meat on the winter solstice, and on the day of the winter solstice, the dried roasted meat becomes.
An indispensable delicacy on the Liangguang table, meaning to add food to the year.
On the day of the winter solstice, the people of Wuchuan have the custom of "eating ginger rice" on the winter solstice.
Drink mutton broth. Native hemp sheep.
It is the best choice for authentic Sichuan mutton soup, eat mutton intestines without clothes", cold three or nine days, what is better than a bowl of steaming mutton soup.
What's even more satisfying?Every year on the winter solstice, people drive into the location.
Jianyang City, on the east side of the Longquan Mountains, just to find a bowl of steaming mutton soup.
As the saying goes, after eating the winter solstice meal, the day grows a line.
After the winter solstice, the daytime is getting longer and longer, and at this time, the yang energy in the human body is vigorous, and it is easiest to absorb external nutrients.
Exerts its nourishing properties.
In other words, around the winter solstice is the best time to take supplements.
However, it is not possible to achieve the effect by random supplementation, and winter supplementation also requires a certain method.
Eat more foods that nourish the body, such as lotus seeds, seeds, and barley
Red beans, jujubes, white fungus, etc.;
Stay upbeat and exercise appropriately.