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Chinese Tradition: Winter Solstice Celebration
This is probably just as much a superstition as a tradition.
The tradition part is to gather all your friends and family on Winter Solstice, the first day of Winter, and have a large feast of good quality food. This follows the tradition of many cultures around the world in marking the start of winter and the shortest day of the year. Its a good time to bring everyone together, make sure everybody is doing well and to prepare for the long hard winter ahead.
This year, 2010, is especially noteworthy as it is also a full moon and a total lunar eclipse on that day - Dec 21. Its my understand that this happens once is only about 20 years.
The Superstition comes in Chinese culture, celebrating this day with a large feast of good quality food means that you will be healthy and never go hungry in the coming year. Its like starting the ball rolling on having plenty of good food and being healthy.
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