When is the Winter Solstice in 2018? What is the Winter Solstice?
When is the winter solstice in 2018? What is the Winter Solstice? The arrival of November in the lunar calendar means we have to bid farewell to the cool autumn and enter the cold winter. Let’s go to the November special topic on Shuimoxiansheng.com to learn about November in the lunar calendar of 2018.When is the winter solstice in 2018?The day before the winter solstice is called "Winter Solstice Night". The Winter Solstice Night in 2018 is the night of December 21st, and the Winter Solstice is December 22nd. People in some southern regions attach more importance to the Winter Solstice Night, and the Winter Solstice and the Winter Solstice Night are just like the Spring Festival and New Year's Eve.What is the Winter Solstice?Regarding the winter solstice night, it seems that different places have different customs and there are different sayings:Theory 1: The night of the winter solstice. Since the winter solstice has a certain morning (usually around 2 pm), the winter solstice night is naturally the night of the winter solstice. The second theory: The winter solstice night is the night before the winter solstice, just like Christmas Eve, which is on the night of the 24th. And many old people said that they always celebrated it on the night before the winter solstice. The most popular saying now is the night before the winter solstice. The Winter Solstice Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and has been passed down to this day. "Qing Jia Lu" even says that "Winter Solstice is as important as New Year's Day." This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice. People believe that the winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang, and is a blessing bestowed by God. In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice was regarded as the "Winter Festival". The government held a celebration ceremony called "Hedong" and a routine holiday. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty recorded: "Around the winter solstice, gentlemen rest themselves and rest, officials stop working and do not attend to government affairs, and choose auspicious days to do things." So on this day, the court would take a day off, the army would be on standby, the border fortresses would be closed, businesses would stop operating, and relatives and friends would give each other delicious food and visit each other, happily spending a holiday of "resting themselves and resting." |
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