(Winter Solstice)--Pano(xin zheng)

(Winter Solstice)--Pano(xin zheng)

(Winter Solstice), is an important Chinese Lunar Feasts [1], is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the winter solstice, commonly known as "Winter Festival", "long to the festival," "Asian-year-old" and so on. Early in Spring and Autumn Period two thousand five hundred years ago, China has been observing the sun with Tugui, measured out the winter solstice, which is the twenty-four solar terms in the first worked out of a time in the calendar year to 23 December 21 between days.

Winter solstice day, direct sunlight reaches the ground position of the southernmost tip of the year, almost direct Tropic of Capricorn (latitude 23 ° 26 '). This day was the sun in the northern hemisphere at least, 50% less than in the southern hemisphere. The shortest day in the northern hemisphere, and the more north shorter daylight. As China's southernmost - James Shoal (latitude 2 ° 33 ') that day day up to 11 hours, 59 minutes, Haikou City, about 10 hours 55 minutes, 10 hours and 12 minutes, Hangzhou, Beijing about 9 hours and 20 minutes, and is known as "China's northernmost" Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province (latitude 52 ° 58 ') is also just seven hours 34 minutes. After the winter solstice, winter night sky astrology completely replaced, but starting today "into nine." At a time when the southern hemisphere summer heat value. [1]

More common is the winter solstice in the northern Chinese have the custom of eating dumplings. As the saying goes: "the winter solstice to eat dumplings." The South is eating rice balls, of course, there are exceptions, such as in Tengzhou in Shandong, Dongping, Wenshang, Qufu, Zoucheng, accustomed to the winter solstice is called winter frost, popular 过数 drink mutton nine day soup customs, meaning get rid of cold meaning. Sisu different country, but the most common eating dumplings.