Do you know legend of winter solstice？
The winter solstice festival originated from the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, so far. "Qing Jia Lu" or "winter solstice". This shows that the ancients on the winter solstice is attached great importance. It is considered that the winter solstice is the natural transformation of the Yin and Yang of the two gas, it is a blessing that God has given.
The Han Dynasty to the winter solstice for the "winter festival", the government will hold the ceremony known as "He Dong", holiday routine. There are written in the book of the later Han: "before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman shelter static body, Baiguan vast things, not hearing, choose Kyrgyzstan Chen and save trouble." So the day towards the court to holiday break, standby forces, frontier fortress retreat, business travel business, relatives and the distinctions to food, visit each other, happy to a "shelter static body" holiday.