As early as 2,500 years ago, about the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), China had determined the point of Winter Solstice by observing movements of the sun with a sundial. It is the earliest of the 24 seasonal division points. The time will be each December 22 or 23 according to the Gregorian calendar.
The Northern hemisphere on this day experiences the shortest daytime and longest nighttime. After the Winter Solstice, days will become longer and longer. As ancient Chinese thought, the yang, or muscular, positive things will become stronger and stronger after this day, so it should be celebrated.
The Winter Solstice became a festival during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) and thrived in the Tang and Song dynasties (618-1279). The Han people regarded Winter Solstice as a "Winter Festival", so officials would organize celebrating activities. On this day, both officials and common people would have a rest. The army was stationed in, frontier fortresses closed and business and traveling stopped. Relatives and friends presented to each other delicious food. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the Winter Solstice was a day to offer scarifies to Heaven and ancestors. Emperors would go to suburbs to worship the Heaven; while common people offered sacrifices to their deceased parents or other relatives. The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) even had the record that "Winter Solstice is as formal as the Spring Festival," showing the great importance attached to this day.
In some parts of Northern China, people eat dumpling soup on this day; while residents of some other places eat dumplings, saying doing so will keep them from frost in the upcoming winter. But in parts of South China, the whole family will get together to have a meal made of red-bean and glutinous rice to drive away ghosts and other evil things. In other places, people also eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour. The Winter Solstice rice dumplings could be used as sacrifices to ancestors, or gifts for friends and relatives. The Taiwan people even keep the custom of offering nine-layer cakes to their ancestors. They make cakes in the shape of chicken, duck, tortoise, pig, cow or sheep with glutinous rice flour and steam them on different layers of a pot. These animals all signify auspiciousness in Chinese tradition. People of the same surname or family clan gather at their ancestral temples to worship their ancestors in age order. After the sacrificial ceremony, there is always a grand banquet.
早在2500年前,關于春秋時期(公元前770—476年),中國已經確定冬至的時候通過觀察運動的太陽日晷。它是最早的季節性部門24點。時間在每年公歷12月22日或者23日之間。
北半球在這一天白天最短,黑夜最長的經歷。在冬至后,天會變得越來越長。作為中國古代思想、楊、肌肉發達,積極的事情這一天后就會越來越強,所以它應該慶祝。
冬至成為節日在漢代(公元前206年-公元220年),在唐宋時期(618 - 1279)。漢人把冬至作為“冬季節”,所以官員會組織慶?；顒?。在這一天,官員和老百姓都將休息。軍隊駐扎在邊境要塞關閉和商業和旅游停止。親戚和朋友互相介紹美味的'食物。在唐宋時期,冬至是一天提供嚴厲批評天堂和祖先?；实蹠ソ紖^敬拜天上;而老百姓死去的父母或其他親屬獻祭。清朝(1644 - 1911)甚至有記錄,“冬至是正式的春節,“顯示了高度重視。
在中國北方的一些地方,人們在這一天吃餃子湯,而其他地方的居民吃餃子,說這樣做會讓他們從弗羅斯特在即將到來的冬天。但在中國南部地區,全家人會在一起吃飯的紅豆糯米趕走鬼怪和其他邪惡的東西。在其他地方,人們還吃湯圓,一種填充小餃子糯米粉制成的球。冬至粽子可以作為祭祀祖先,或給朋友和親戚的禮物。甚至臺灣人民保持提供nine-layer蛋糕他們祖先的習俗。他們做蛋糕形狀的雞、鴨、龜、豬、?；蜓蚺c糯米粉和蒸汽鍋的不同層。這些動物象征吉祥喜慶的傳統。人相同的姓或家庭家族聚集在他們的祖先的廟宇崇拜祖先時代順序。祭祀儀式后,總有一個盛大的宴會。
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