{"id":17508,"date":"2020-01-03T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-festival-winter-solstice-festival-2\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T10:22:10","slug":"chinese-festival-winter-solstice-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/chinese-festival-winter-solstice-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Festival: Winter Solstice Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>  \tThe <strong>Winter Solstice Festival<\/strong>\uff08\u51ac\u81f3\u8282<span style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">d\u014dng zh&igrave; ji<\/span>&eacute;<em style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">\uff09<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\"> falls during the 11th lunar month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  \tIt has its origins in the Chinese concept of <strong>yin<\/strong>\uff08\u9634y\u012bn\uff09 and <strong>yang<\/strong>\uff08\u9633<span style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">y&aacute;ng<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">\uff09<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">, which represents balance and harmony in life. It&#39;s believed that the yin qualities of darkness and cold are at their most powerful on the shortest day of the year, but also at their turning point to give way to the light and warmth of <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">yang<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.8em;\">. For this reason, the Winter Solstice Festival is a time for optimism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  \tToday, people mark the occasion in northern China by eating Chinese dumplings, while the southern part of the country puts on a much bigger celebration, second only to Chinese New Year for many families. This is because this was traditionally the time by which farmers and fishermen had to prepare for the coming colder months.<\/p>\n<p>  \tIn Hong Kong, most people finish work early on the festival and go home for lavish meals with their families. They&#39;ll usually include <strong>tangyuan<\/strong>\uff08\u6c64\u5706t\u0101ng yu&aacute;n\uff09on the menu (a sweet soup with balls of sticky rice) because its name soulds like &#39;reunion&#39;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3577627430\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Solstice Festival\uff08\u51ac\u81f3\u8282d\u014dng zh&igrave; ji &eacute;\uff09 falls during the 11th lunar month.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":145,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}