Why do we say we are one year older on the Winter Solstice in 2020? Isn’t it appropriate to say Happy Holidays?
Although the Winter Solstice is an important solar term, for the people in southern Fujian, the Winter Solstice is one of the four major festivals for ancestor worship, just like Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and New Year's Eve. So today I will talk about this from the perspective of southern Fujian culture. Why do we say we are one year older during the Winter Solstice in 2020? Isn’t it appropriate to say Happy Holidays? In winter, November is also called the Mid-Winter according to the sequence. In addition, there are also the Lucky Month, the Reed Month (when the reeds sprout green heads), and the Dragon Hiding Month. Let’s follow Mr. Shui Mo to learn about the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2020.Why do we say we are one year older on the Winter Solstice in 2020?The winter solstice in 2020 is on December 21, 2020 at 18:02:12 Lunar calendar: November 7thThe Winter Solstice is an extremely important solar term. In the Zhou Dynasty calendar, the month of the winter solstice was even called the "first month". According to the traditional calendar, the winter solstice is the starting point for calculating the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. Therefore, there is a saying in southern Fujian that "After the Winter Festival, adults and children are one year older." The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight hours in the year. After the winter solstice, the sun's direct point gradually moves northward, and the days in the northern hemisphere gradually become longer and the nights gradually become shorter. Therefore, the period from the winter solstice to the greater and lesser cold is the coldest time of the year! ! Isn’t it appropriate to say Happy Holidays on the Winter Solstice?"Quanzhou Prefecture Records, Volume 20, Customs" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty recorded: "On the Winter Solstice, the people of the prefecture (referring to Quanzhou Prefecture, including Tong'an and Xiamen at that time) did not congratulate each other, but offered sacrifices in the ancestral hall." This is similar to the Qingming Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, during the winter solstice in southern Fujian, we cannot say "Happy Winter Solstice". This is related to the custom of ancestor worship. Just imagine, the expression when offering sacrifice to ancestors must be serious, where does the happiness come from?Winter Solstice Proverbs1. If you don’t go home for the Winter Solstice, you will have no ancestors; if you don’t come back for the Spring Festival, you will have no children (“children” means “wife” and “sons” in Minnan dialect)!2. Dry winter festival, wet festival pocket; wet winter festival, dry year pocket" (It doesn’t rain during the winter solstice, but it will definitely rain during the Spring Festival); 3. The 100th day after the winter solstice is the Qingming Festival (the Qingming Festival is 106 days after the winter solstice, reminding people not to forget to prepare for farming); 4. If the winter solstice is at the beginning of the month, the coldest time of the year is in the beginning of the year; if the winter solstice is at the end of the month, the coldest time is in the second month. 5. Before the winter solstice, rice prices rise, and poor children are well-fed; before the winter solstice, rice prices fall, and poor children become poor. 6. People rest early on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and cows rest early on the Winter Solstice. 7. Eat during the Winter Solstice, and you will go into winter; eat during the Qingming Festival, and you will go back to work (which means that after the Winter Solstice, you can “hibernate”; after the Qingming Festival, you can continue to work). |
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