after the winter solstice, people often Buy winter specialities as presents.
Today is the 24 solar terms winter solstice, the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere.
Perhaps at the winter solstice those ancient people conducted ceremonies linked to a cult of the dead.
The season of the year between summer and winter, lasting from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice and from September to December in the Northern Hemisphere;fall.
The winter solstice having stealthily come on, the lowness of the sun caused the hour to seem later than it actually was.
The precession of the vernal equinox from the Sun's entry into Aries to some point in Pisces, with similar consequences for the summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice, has led to two different methods of calculating the samkranti (entry) of the Sun into a sign.
For years people have had to book a place to enter the chamber and witness the winter solstice sunbeam - the list is full for the next 12 years, so the chances of getting in are slim.
The period of the winter solstice, about December22.
The winter solstice is a day shortest daytime and longest darkness in the north hemisphere.
B: You wish. All these glutinous balls mean that it must be winter solstice now. So, you're one year older.
The last time a lunar eclipse occurred on the winter solstice, astronomer Galileo Galilei was languishing under house arrest for suggesting the Earth circled the sun.
The McKennas continued, "Because the winter solstice node is precessing, it is moving closer and closer to the point on the ecliptic where it will eclipse the galactic center."
Daytime gradually lengthens after winter solstice
The day when the sun passes the winter solstice is the shortest of the year.
After the winter solstice, the point of direct solar radiation gradually shifted to the Tropic of Cancer.
The gorgeous mountains make this autumn make-up look like March. The abundant harvest has the custom of dazzling laughter in the sunshine for the winter solstice.
Legend has it that the Gonggong clan had talented people who did a lot of evil. He died on the day of the winter solstice. After his death, he became a plague ghost and continued to maim the people.
The sun's highest point in the sky, seen in this analemma, occurs during the summer solstice, while its lowest point is during winter solstice.
Emperors worship the sky every winter solstice. The summer solstice goes to the altar of the land altar, and Meng Chunfu's farming altar and farmland are all going to and from Tiananmen.
Su Dongpo went to Huangzhou. Besides studying Buddhist sutras, he also spent seven or forty-nine days in a Taoist temple, starting from the winter solstice of the third year of Yuanfeng.
Winter solstice arrived, reunion and family, lively eating dumplings, open hearts and mouth, happy and warm stomach, winter solstice season good omen, good luck and happy days, I wish you good health, peace and security for a lifetime.
I always thought that when spring comes, tell me to live, when summer comes, tell me to open brilliantly, when winter solstice, tell me not to wither.
The winter solstice is a big night. It's over 14 hours in Southern California.
A fabled bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was supposed to have had the power to calm the wind and the waves while it nested on the sea during the winter solstice.
On that day, the winter solstice is just a process of the earth's movement around the sun, not the end of the end, but the beginning of the process towards the summer solstice.
From 1751 onwards, the Hall was used exclusively to pray for good harvests at the winter solstice.
"This one declares it's of no consequence, that one that there'll be a crisis at the winter solstice. They can't make up their minds."
The winter solstice has the shortest daytime of the year, while the summer solstice has the longest.
This year the winter solstice is December 22.
