What holidays are there in December? December 2016
The arrival of December means that 2016 is coming to an end. Looking back on the big and small things that happened this year, I can't help but sigh with emotion. From individuals such as so-and-so who have divorced, to the UK having left the European Union, and the Rio Olympics, this year's big and small things will be sealed by history and deeply imprinted in the calendar. What else will happen this month? Let's start by understanding the holidays!
List of festivals in December 2016
December 1: World AIDS Day 1988
December 2: World Day for the Abolition of All Forms of Slavery, 1986
December 3: World Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 4: National Legal Awareness Day 2001
5 December: International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (1985)
December 5: World Day of the Disabled
December 7: International Civil Aviation Day
December 8: International Children's Television Day
December 9: "December 9" Movement Memorial Day 1935
December 9: International Anti-Corruption Day
December 9: World Football Day 1995
December 10: World Human Rights Day 1950
December 11: World Asthma Day 1998
December 12: Xi'an Incident Memorial Day 1936
December 13: Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day 1937
December 15: World Boost Immunization Day
December 20: Macao Return Day 1999
December 21: International Basketball Day
December 24: Christmas Eve
December 25: Christmas Day
December 29: International Day for Biological Diversity, 1994
December solar term
Heavy Snow (December 6)
Heavy snow, the twenty-first solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, is on December 7 or 8 of each year in the Gregorian calendar, which is also the end of the lunar month and the beginning of the lunar month; at that time, the sun reaches 255 degrees of yellow longitude. Heavy snow means that the weather is colder, and the possibility of snowfall is greater than that of light snow, but it does not mean that the snowfall must be large. On the contrary, the amount of precipitation in various places is further reduced after heavy snow.
"Light snow pickled vegetables, heavy snow pickled meat" As soon as the heavy snow solar term arrives, every household is busy pickling "salty goods". Add salt and pepper to the pot and cook. After the fried pepper salt is cool, apply it inside and outside the fish, meat and light poultry, and rub it repeatedly until the meat turns from fresh to dark and there is liquid oozing from the surface, then put the meat and the remaining salt into the tank, press it with stones, put it in a cool and backlit place, take it out after half a month, and hang it under the sunrise eaves to dry to welcome the arrival of the New Year.
Winter Solstice (December 21)
The winter solstice, also known as the "Winter Festival" and "Hadong", is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the eight celestial solar terms. It is opposite to the summer solstice. The winter solstice begins when the sun reaches 270 ° of the yellow longitude, around December 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. It is said that the winter solstice is New Year's Day in the Zhou Dynasty in history, which used to be a very lively day.
On the winter solstice, the sun hits the ground directly at the southernmost point of the year, almost directly at the Tropic of Cancer (23 ° 26 'S). On this day, the northern hemisphere receives the least sunlight, 50% less than the southern hemisphere. The northern hemisphere has the shortest days, and the further north the days get shorter.
More commonly, in northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. As the saying goes: "When the winter solstice arrives, eat dumplings." In the south, dumplings are eaten. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, the winter solstice custom is called the number nine, and the custom of drinking mutton soup on the day of the number nine is popular, which means to drive away the cold.
