Look. IT'S A BARREL!
Right,put your year's chagrin and misfortunes into this BARREL, On the eve of the feast, clean the barrels for this ancient The Winter Solstice Festival (DongZhi).
The Winter Solstice Festival is the day when the sun is most direct in the south. It is the day with the shortest days and the longest nights in the Northern Hemisphere.It is the day indicates that harsh winter is coming.
However, winter is the prelude to spring, The light waits behind the darkness. After the night, we humans know that the daytime must be dressed up for the feast.
The winter Solstice festival not only represents the great discovery of sunshine (JieQi), which has become the key to human farming and reproduction, but also symbolizes the positive, optimistic and brave human spirit to survive the chilly winter.
So let's put the gifts and visions of the New Year in this old but new BARREL.
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