二十四节气冬至英语作文

二十四节气冬至英语作文
Once in the winter solstice, my mother and I are ready to make dumplings materials: some meat, some of the wrappers. I picked up a piece of the wrappers on the left hand, right hand dug a little fresh, use chopsticks to dumplings lining. But fresh meat seems very lively, leap to jump, very not easy sealing top results open again... Making dumplings is really not easy!
Speak of the winter solstice eat dumplings, there is also a custom! In my hometown - the north of henan province, the winter solstice every family tradition is to make dumplings, eating dumplings. As the saying goes: "the winter solstice misconduct dumplings bowl, frozen off ears is nobodys business."
The custom of the northern winter eat dumplings is due to the memory of "the medical sage" zhang zhongjing winter solstice medicine left. Hungry people eat dumplings, to drink the "remove cold soup", and warm, fever, two ears frostbite ears were cured.
No matter you have the habit of eating dumplings, wish everyone happy winter solstice, happily and family spent together the happy holiday!
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 netmon 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 netmon 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 upneting 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.
Dumplings in the teaching of the mother, like like like dont like all packages, finally to eat, my own package dumplings.
Really is happy day!
Tang and song period, the winter solstice is to worship the day of worship ancestors, the emperor held outside the day to worship, the people in this day to the parents or elders worship. Ming and qing dynasties, the emperor have to worship, of "winter solstice jiao days". There has to be given to a emperor, table officials ritual, but also to each other for congratulations,
like New Years day.
As early as 2500 years ago, the Chinese had detected this
day by observing the sun. What's so special about this day? The answer is that on this day, the day lasts the shortest and the night lasts the longest of the year. It means the new round of
the solar terms, the Winter Solstice is the earliest. As an old tradition, people treat that day a grand day, and they celebrate it. In the north, most people eat dumplings, while in the south, people eat sticky rice dumplings. Although people celebrate the day in different ways, they share the same joy and families get together to have a big dinner.。