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Introduction to the festival: The winter solstice is an important solar term in the lunar calendar in our country, which is also a traditional festival. To date, residents in many places maintain their customs of celebrating the festival of winter solstice. As far as in the Spring and Autumn Period 2,500 years ago, our country adopted the methods of tugui to measure the shadow of the sun for determining the twenty-four solar terms. Among them, the winter solstice is the first to be fixed, roughly around 22-23 December in the lunar calendar. The winter solstice is a day shortest daytime and longest darkness in the north hemisphere.

Introduction to the festival

Writing characters

About Winter Solstice Festival

The point of Winter Solstice

A traditional festival

Traditional foods

Festival celebration today

Festival Custom

Drawing of plum blossoms

Writing Chinese characters

Festival of gathering

Festival Foods

Dumplings with new stuffings

Ordinary dumpling

Fish-like dumpling

Ordinary dumpling

glutinous rice with red bean

Winter Solstice Festival across China

Weifang, Shandong

Maoming, Guangdong

Other Traditional Festivals

Mid-Autumn Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

Tomb Sweeping Day

Spring Festival 2009

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