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The collision of Chinese and Western traditional festivals

December 22,2023

On the occasion of the collision between Christmas and the traditional Chinese festival "Winter Solstice", we held a grand party where we tasted delicious food and afternoon tea and shared this year's results.

December 22nd marks the winter solstice season. The Winter Solstice is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional ancestor worship festival in Chinese folk culture. It is considered a major winter festival and can be said to be as big as the year.

On the winter solstice, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun is most inclined towards the Northern Hemisphere and has the smallest solar altitude angle. It is the shortest day and longest night in various parts of the Northern Hemisphere. But in terms of meteorology, the temperature on the winter solstice is not the lowest. In fact, due to the accumulation of heat on the surface, it is usually not very cold before the winter solstice, and the true severe cold occurs after the winter solstice.

The winter solstice customs vary in content or details due to regional differences. In southern China, there are customs of ancestor worship, feasting and eating rice dumpling on the winter solstice. In northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year. Because dumplings have the meaning of dispelling the cold, there is still a folk saying that goes, "On the winter solstice, if you don't serve the dumpling bowl, no one will care if you freeze your ears."

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