when the Northern Hemisphere is marking its summer solstice. Scandinavia celebrates St. Lucia's Day, a festival of lights. The "arrival of winter," or Dong Zhi, is a Chinese festival where family ...

The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as hanshi jie, is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the 105th day after the winter solstice. In 2025, this falls on April 4.

Thought to mark the end of the harvest season, the holiday also has roots in the Chinese concept of yin and yang: After the solstice, the abundance of darkness in winter will begin to be balanced ...

The jiaozi, or Chinese dumpling, symbolises reunion and good fortune According to the legend, Zhang handed out jiaozi among the poor from the day of the Winter Solstice to Chinese New Year’s Eve.

In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 December ... Dongzhi is an important festival in the Chinese calendar and roughly translates as “winter’s arrival” or “winter ...

The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar ... paths that the sun takes during four of the solar terms – winter solstice, summer solstice, spring equinox and autumn equinox.

Writer Shunshin Chin introduced a Chinese custom known as the “nine ... The process begins on the winter solstice, and spring will be in full swing by the time all the petals are painted in ...