Another winter solstice, Eat dumplings The Winter Solstice (English: winter solstice), Also known as "winter festival "," winter ", One of the 24 solar terms and one of the eight celestial solar terms, Relative to the Summer Solstice. Beginning when the sun reaches 270°, It is about December 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The Winter Solstice is one of the 24 solar terms, And is one of the most important solar terms. Before the Winter Solstice it was heavy snow (December 7-9), After the Winter Solstice is Lesser Cold (January 4-6 of the following year), The Winter Solstice is celebrated from December 21 to December 23. On the winter solstice, The sun reaches the southernmost point of the year, almost direct to the Tropic of Cancer (23°26'). The northern hemisphere gets the least sunlight this day, 50% less than the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, And the shorter the north day. More commonly, There is a custom of eating dumplings on the Winter Solstice in northern China. As the saying goes, Eat dumplings ." And the South has dumplings, There are exceptions, For example, the Winter Solstice in Tengzhou, Shandong Province is called the number nine, The custom of having mutton soup on nine days, The implication is to drive away the cold.