I-Winter Solstice yenye yeendlela ezingamashumi amabini anesine zelanga kwaye ngumnyhadala wesintu wesizwe saseTshayina. Lo mhla uphakathi komhla wama-21 nowama-23 kweyoMnga kwikhalenda kaGregory.

Kubantu, kukho intetho ethi “i-solstice yasebusika inkulu njengonyaka”, kodwa iindawo ezahlukeneyo zinezithethe ezahlukeneyo ngexesha le-solstice yasebusika. Emantla, uninzi lwabantu lunesiko lokutya ii-dumplings, kwaye uninzi lwabantu basemazantsi lunesiko lokutya iilekese.

Ixesha lasebusika lixesha elifanelekileyo lokulondolozwa kwempilo, ikakhulu kuba “i-qi iqala ngexesha lasebusika.” Kuba ukususela ekuqaleni kobusika, imisebenzi yobomi yaqala ukuguquka ukusuka ekuwohlokeni ukuya ekuchumeni, ukusuka ekuthuleni ukuya ekujikelezeni. Ngeli xesha, ukugcinwa kwempilo ngokwesayensi kunceda ukuqinisekisa amandla anamandla nokuthintela ukwaluphala ngaphambi kwexesha, kunye nokufezekisa injongo yokwandisa ubomi. Ngexesha lasebusika, ukutya kufuneka kwahlulwe, kunye nokudibanisa okufanelekileyo kweenkozo, iziqhamo, inyama, kunye nemifuno, kunye nokukhethwa okufanelekileyo kokutya okune-calcium eninzi.

I-astronomy ijonga i-solstice yasebusika njengokuqala kobusika, okucacileyo ukuba kusemva kwexesha kwiindawo ezininzi zaseTshayina. I-solstice yasebusika lolona suku lufutshane lonyaka naphi na kwi-emphandeni esemantla. Emva kwe-solstice yasebusika, indawo yelanga ngokuthe ngqo yaya emantla kancinci, usuku kwi-emphandeni esemantla lwaqala ukuba lude, kwaye ukuphakama kwelanga emini kwanda kancinci kancinci. Ke ngoko, kukho intetho ethi, “Emva kokutya ii-noodles zasebusika, ukukhanya kwelanga kwanda imihla ngemihla.”