【Student Housing Service Section Announcement】Winter Solstice – Longest night in a year

Winter Solstice is one of the most important of the 24 solar terms.

In ancient times, the winter solstice is a day of reunion, so it is also known as the " Little New Year".

The date of the winter solstice falls on December 22^nd or 23^rd day of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The day of the winter solstice is called the "short day", because the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Capricornus on this day, so the day is the shortest in the northern hemisphere and the night is the longest (Taiwan is in the northern hemisphere).

After the winter solstice, the sunlight moves northward, so the days get longer and the nights get shorter.

During the winter solstice in the Ming and Qing dynasties, each family would make glutinous rice balls soup to worship the gods and ancestors, and the family would gather around to eat the glutinous rice balls soup, which is called "Tian Sui".

Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice not only means that the sun (sunshine) is gradually returning, but also represents the meaning of reunion.

Modern people prefer to take it as a symbol of consummation.

Student Housing Service Section will provide 200 servings (100 servings for men and 100 servings for women) of hot sweet glutinous rice balls for those students who cannot return to the dormitory to warm your heart, SHSS care about you~