A nobleman once cut a piece of his flesh to feed an exiled Chinese prince. The Cold Food Festival in his honour was inspired ...

when the Northern Hemisphere is marking its summer solstice. Scandinavia celebrates St. Lucia's Day, a festival of lights. The "arrival of winter," or Dong Zhi, is a Chinese festival where family ...

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar ... The Winter Solstice also marks the arrival of the coldest season in the year. The Winter Solstice Festival There was a saying ...

Honoring Saint Lucia (aka Saint Lucy), this festival incorporates pagan winter solstice ... also has roots in the Chinese concept of yin and yang: After the solstice, the abundance of darkness ...

In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 ... Dongzhi is an important festival in the Chinese calendar and roughly translates as “winter’s arrival” or “winter’s extreme”.

The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as hanshi jie, is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the 105th day after the winter solstice. In 2025, this falls on April 4.