Winter solstice is also known as "winter festival" , is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the eight celestial solar terms, which is opposite to the summer solstice. Every year around December 22 of the Gregorian calendar. According to legend, the Zhou dynasty of the winter solstice in history was New Year's Day, which was once a very lively day.
On the winter solstice day, the position of the sun directly hitting the ground reaches the southernmost point of the year, almost directly hitting the Tropic of Capricorn (23°26' south latitude). On this day, the northern hemisphere gets the least sunlight, and the daylight reaches the shortest, and the daylight gets shorter as it goes to the north.
More commonly, there is a custom of eating dumplings during the winter solstice in northern China. As the saying goes: "Winter solstice is here, eat dumplings." In the south, we eat dumplings. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, in Tengzhou, Shandong, the custom of drinking mutton soup on the day of the solstice is called number nine, which means to drive away the cold. .
