"Winter solstice" is what people call the "off-year", is one of the 24 solar terms in China, commonly known as the "holiday". On this day, because the sun point-blank at the tropic of Capricorn (also known as the tropic of Capricorn), makes the day was shortest in the northern hemisphere, the longest night.
According to the old tradition, people in the winter solstice this day, will be a picture of plum, tick the pigment ink 9980 a flower. Every day in red or black pen paint a flower petals, petals coating done, 9980 a flower out, spring has arrived, so called "jiujiu away cold figure"; Also have a plenty of cross ten paint, vertical, made into a square that is JiuJiuBaShiYi lattice charts. Daub a tile, nine full every day, known as the "jiujiu cold table elimination", folk is left jiujiu cold figure proverb: "the next day Yin points clear, left the wind right snow fog center. Figure midpoint jet black, is outside the door. The most cultured is" jiujiu away cold meet Spring Festival couplets ", is nine word, every nine to draw every word, every day in different fill a ShangXiaLian, such as written with "spring waters hanging spring LiuChun dye the beauty of spring; the bottom allied with" autumn qiu yuan hang fall persimmon chou-heung ", was a great best union!
Today is the winter solstice, I eat sweet dumplings, according to the folk belief, I again long one year old. I made a according to the ancients, the method of "jiujiu cold table", etc. I put the fill out "jiujiu cold table elimination", at that time would be flowers in full bloom, birds schools of thought contend, a picture of a spring scene before again.
“冬至”就是人们所说的“小年”，是我国廿四节气之一，俗称“冬节”。在这一天，因为太阳刚好直射在南回归线(又称为冬至线)上，使得北半球的白天最短，黑夜最长。
根据以前的传统，人们在冬至这一天，会画梅花一枝，素墨勾出九九八十一朵花。每天用红笔或黑笔涂染一朵花瓣，花瓣涂尽了，九九八十一朵花出来了，春天也就到了，所以称为”九九消寒图”;也有的是横十画、竖十画，制成一个九九八十一格的方块图表。每天涂抹一格、九尽格满，称为”九九消寒表”，民间还留有九九消寒图民谚：“下点天阴上点晴，左风右雾雪中心。图中点得墨黑黑，门外已是草茵茵。最文雅的是“九九消寒迎春联”，是每联九字，每字九画，每天在上下联各填一笔，如上联写有“春泉垂春柳春染春美”;下联对以“秋院挂秋柿秋送秋香”，真是绝妙佳联!
今天也是冬至，我吃了甜甜的汤圆，根据民间的说法，我又长了一岁。我按古人的方法，做了一张”九九消寒表”，等我把“九九消寒表”填完，那时候就会是百花盛开，百鸟争鸣，一幅春天的景象又展现在眼前了。