{"id":1838,"date":"2019-12-21T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2019-12-21T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:37:54","slug":"happy-winter-solstice-dong-zhi-%e5%86%ac%e8%87%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"Happy Winter Solstice \u2013 Do\u0304ng Zhi\u0300 \u51ac\u81f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pbs-main-wrapper\"><p>\u51ac(Dong) mean winter. \u81f3 (Zhi) means extreme, or arrival.<\/p>\n<p>\u51ac\u81f3 (D\u014dng Zhi\u0300) literally means the \u201cextreme of winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>D\u014dng Zhi\u0300 is also known as Winter Festival \u2013 \u51ac\u7bc0(D\u014dng Jie\u0301) for Chinese. Dong Zhi marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter cold days start on this day according to the Chinese calendar. This is also the day that your shadow measures the longest under the sun. \u51ac\u81f3 Dong Zhi Festival always falls on or around December 22.\u00a0 This year is on December 22.<\/p>\n<p>In ancient China,\u00a0Chinese winter solstice,\u00a0D\u014dng Zh\u00ec used to be the first day of the first month on the calendar, the New Year\u2019s day. Even though it was changed by Emperor Qin (\u79e6\u59cb\u7687), people still keep the tradition. Therefore, Dong Zhi Festival is also known as \u201cthe little New Year\u2019s day\u201d \u904e\u5c0f\u5e74.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"LC20lb\">Happy Dongzhi Festival!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/winter-soltice-FA-01.jpg\" xlink=\"href\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1839 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/winter-soltice-FA-01-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/winter-soltice-FA-01-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/winter-soltice-FA-01-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/winter-soltice-FA-01-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u51ac(Dong) mean winter. \u81f3 (Zhi) means extreme, or arrival. \u51ac\u81f3 (D\u014dng Zhi\u0300) literally means the \u201cextreme of winter.\u201d D\u014dng Zhi\u0300 is also known as Winter Festival \u2013 \u51ac\u7bc0(D\u014dng Jie\u0301) for Chinese. Dong Zhi marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ymnews.yonming.com\/ym\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}