The winter solstice, the winter solstice as the "holiday" in han dynasty, the rulers to congratulate ceremony known as "He Dong", official holidays, routine officialdom popular each "winter" worship custom. "Were" has such records: "before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman place static body, baiguan, scenes, and then pick an auspicious day Chen save trouble." So on the court and off to rest, to the army on standby, frontier retreat, business travel out of business, family and all distinctions to food, visit each other, a joyous festival "place static body". When in the six dynasties, the winter solstice is called "the age", people to elders to extend holiday greetings to your parents; After the song dynasty, the winter solstice festival gradually become the sacrifice to ancestors and gods.

　　Tang and song period, the winter solstice is to worship the day of worship ancestors, the emperor held outside the day to worship, the people in this day to the parents or elders worship. Ming and qing dynasties, the emperor have to worship, of "winter solstice jiao days". There has to be given to a emperor, table officials ritual, but also to each other for congratulations, like New Year's day.

　　Winter festival also called yesterday, hand in winter. It is one of the 24 solar terms, is a traditional festival of China, have "the winter solstice as big as a year". Winter solstice supplements, is China's traditional customs, folksay: fill a lump-sum winter, in the coming year without pain. Summer volts, winter lump-sum. The winter solstice mend, nutrients.

　　冬至到了，漢代以冬至為“冬節(jié)”，官府要舉行祝賀儀式稱為“賀冬”，官方例行放假，官場(chǎng)流行互賀的“拜冬”禮俗?！逗鬂h書》中有這樣的記載：“冬至前后，君子安身靜體，百官絕事，不聽(tīng)政，擇吉辰而后省事。”所以這天朝廷上下要放假休息，軍隊(duì)待命，邊塞閉關(guān)，商旅停業(yè)，親朋各以美食相贈(zèng)，相互拜訪，歡樂(lè)地過(guò)一個(gè)“安身靜體”的節(jié)日。魏晉六朝時(shí)，冬至稱為“亞歲”，民眾要向父母長(zhǎng)輩拜節(jié);宋朝以后，冬至逐漸成為祭祀祖先和神靈的節(jié)慶活動(dòng)。

　　唐、宋時(shí)期，冬至是祭天祀祖的日子，皇帝在這天要到郊外舉行祭天大典，百姓在這一天要向父母尊長(zhǎng)祭拜。明、清兩代，皇帝均有祭天大典，謂之“冬至郊天”。宮內(nèi)有百官向皇帝呈遞賀表的儀式，而且還要互相投刺祝賀，就像元旦一樣。

　　冬至節(jié)亦稱冬節(jié)、交冬。它既是二十四節(jié)氣之一，是中國(guó)的一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日，曾有“冬至大如年”的說(shuō)法。冬至進(jìn)補(bǔ)，是我國(guó)傳統(tǒng)風(fēng)俗，俗語(yǔ)云：三九補(bǔ)一冬，來(lái)年無(wú)病痛。夏養(yǎng)三伏，冬補(bǔ)三九。冬至補(bǔ)一補(bǔ),一年精氣足。