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Chinese Traditional Festivals : The winter solstice

Today is China's annual traditional festival: the winter solstice.




Winter solstice , also called "holiday" and "He Dong", one of 24 solar terms of an ancient name for China, one of the eight class host throttle, contrast with the summer solstice.The winter solstice, the start of the sun arrived at longitude 270 ° in the Gregorian calendar on December 22, a year.Allegedly, the winter solstice in the zhou dynasty in the history of the New Year's day of the New Year, used to be a very busy life. The location of the winter solstice this day, the sun ground arrived at the south end of the year, almost direct tropic of Capricorn (south of the equator 23 ° 26 ').It was a day in the northern hemisphere have been the least sunshine, 50% fewer than in the southern hemisphere.The day to achieve the shortest in the northern hemisphere, and the farther north the day is shorter. Is more common in northern China have the custom of the winter solstice eat dumplings.As the saying goes: "the winter solstice to eat dumplings."While the south is to eat dumplings, of course there are exceptions, such as the winter solstice in places such as shandong tengzhou habit is called as a bitter, popular custom of mutton soup as a bitter day, moral dispelling cold.



Everyone in the office today to share dumplings,Although the winter is cold, but warm heart.
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