Spring, summer, autumn harvest, winter storage
Winter is a time for harvest and rest
Start of Winter, one of the 24 solar terms
Erect, Jianshi also; Winter, the end, all things collection also
The start of winter means that life begins to shut down
All things enter a state of rest and collection
The weather was getting colder and colder
Fengshang photoelectric reminds you to pay attention to weather changes, add more clothes, pay attention to warm
Winter solstice, happiness
The wind blew hard and the ground began to freeze. It was the coldest time of the year. In this cold winter, people have a warm and important festival, that is, the winter solstice, also known as "Winter Festival", "long to Festival", is the 24th solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, usually appears on December 21 or 22. The southern hemisphere has the most direct sunlight, while the northern hemisphere has the shortest hours of daylight and the longest nights.
Winter Solstice · Eat dumplings
In the north, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the Winter solstice every year. On October 1, the winter solstice comes, every family eats dumplings. This custom is to commemorate the "medical sage" Zhang Zhongjing winter solstice medicine left behind. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, he served as the governor of Changsha, visiting the sick and administering medicine. After resolutely resigned and returned to his hometown to cure his neighbors. It was winter when he returned home. He saw that the villagers on both sides of the White River were pale and thin, hungry and cold, and many of them had frozen ears. He asked his disciples to set up a medical shed and a cauldron in the East Pass of Nanyang to treat chilblains on the Winter Solstice. He put the mutton and some cold medicine in a pot to boil, then the mutton and medicine out of the chopped, with bread into ear like "Jiao", after cooking, to give to the people who came to ask for medicine two "Jiao", a big bowl of broth. People eat "Jiao", drink "cold removal soup", the whole body warm, two ears warm, frostbitten ears are cured. Later generations learned the appearance of "Jiao 'er" and wrapped it into food, also called "jiaozi" or "flat food".
Winter Solstice · Eat dumplings
Eating tangyuan during the winter solstice was a custom in the Ming and Qing dynasties. On the day of the winter Solstice, it is necessary to "make powder circles" or "powder glutinous rice for balls". These also have official records in historical materials, called "Winter solstice, glutinous rice powder for the ball, the name Tangyuan." After doing dumplings to worship God ancestor, and then the family around to eat dumplings, called "add year". Therefore, the winter solstice to eat dumplings, there are ancient. Circle means "reunion" and "completeness", symbolizing family harmony and auspiciousness.
Winter Solstice · Eat sheep soup
Eating mutton and mutton soup during the winter solstice is because in Yin-yang theory, summer is Yang and winter is Yin. Therefore, winter is the heaviest time in the body Yin qi in a year, so this time you need to nourish Yin Yang, and mutton is a relatively high calorie food, which can warm the cold, warm Qi and blood.
The third Hou of Start of winter
Ice begins when water arrives
As the world grew colder, the water began to condense and the river became more and more pure and peaceful.
The ground begins to freeze in the second Hou
Five days later, the temperature drops to zero and the surface of the earth begins to freeze.
Three pheasants entered the clam
After the start of winter, large birds such as pheasants are rarely seen, but large clams with shells similar in line and color to pheasants can be seen on the seaside. So it is thought that the pheasant turns into a giant clam after the start of winter.
