People often start counting "nine cold periods" starting from winter solstice.
人们通常从冬至开始计算“九个寒冷期”。
They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice, lesser cold and greater cold.
它们是：立冬、小雪、大雪、冬至、小寒和大寒。
When winter solstice comes, it brings the shortest days of the year and the longest nights.
当冬至到来的时候，随之而来的是一年中最短的白昼和最长的黑夜。
The winter solstice eat dumplings, dumplings one heart.
冬至吃饺子，一个饺子一颗心。
During the Winter Solstice, Hangzhou residents traditionally eat rice cakes.
冬至期间，杭州的人们按照传统都会吃年糕。
In Northern China during winter solstice there is a custom of eating dumplings.
中国北方大部分地区在这一天有吃饺子的习俗。
The Winter Solstice became a winter festival during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220AD).
在汉朝（公元前206年-公元220年）的时候冬至成为了一个冬节。
The winter solstice, theoretically should be the dead of a year, but it is usually not that.
理论上讲，冬至应是全年最冷的时刻，但通常并不是这样。
From 1751 onwards, the Hall was used exclusively to pray for good harvests at the winter solstice.
在1751年前，这个大殿是在冬至时用来祈求来年有个好年景。
Then when was the last time that we had a total lunar eclipse occur on the same date as the winter solstice?
那么上一次人类在冬至时节看到月全食是什么时候呢？
You wish. All these glutinous balls mean that it must be winter solstice now. So, you're one year older.
你想得美。这些汤圆代表冬至已经到了。所以你也老了一岁。
Solstice is the name of the new baby giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo. It was born in December, on winter solstice.
索斯提斯（Solstice 中文意思为至日）是圣路易斯动物园（St. Louis Zoo）新生小长颈鹿的名字，它生于12月的冬至那天，因此得名。
At that time of year the winter solstice was coming, and the Sun was moving into a lower declination in the sky.
这是逐渐临近冬至的一段时间，太阳的赤纬也是不断地缩小。
The ancient thought the winter solstice, although also occupied the cold season, but spring already is not far.
古人认为到了冬至，虽然还处在寒冷的季节，但春天已经不远了。
Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the official beginning of winter.
冬至在北半球是一年里最短的一天，同时也标志着冬天正式开始。
Winter Solstice is not only an important solar term, but also a traditional festival, the Winter Solstice Festival.
冬至不仅是比较重要的节气，还是民间传统节日——冬至节。
Today, though fewer families eat home-made cakes, people there still buy rice cakes for the Winter Solstice Festival.
现在虽然越来越少的家庭会吃自制的年糕，但是这里的人们仍然会为冬至而购买年糕。
In some places, it is still popular with the saying that "the Winter Solstice is as important as the Spring Festival".
有的地区现在还有“冬至大如年”的说法，意思是冬至节比春节都重要。
Curiously, Christmas falls during the winter solstice, which in northern primitive cultures also represents the future and rebirth.
说来古怪，圣诞节随著冬至降临，在北欧原始文化中，冬至也代表未来和再生。
Thelast total lunar eclipse visible from the U.S. occurred on Dec. 21, 2010, which coincided with winter solstice and was widely observed.
最近一次在美国可见的月全食发生在2010年12月21日，那天恰巧是冬至，所以月食能够被大多数地区观察到。
"Sanjiu period" refers to the third nine-day period (the 19th-27th days) after the day of the Winter Solstice, which is in Minor Cold.
“三九时节”指的是冬至过后第三个九天(第19到27天)，而“三九”就在小寒内。
For thousands of years, cultures the world over feted the winter solstice as the moment of the sun's return, the turning of the wintry tide.
在几千年中，世界各地的文化都广泛庆祝冬至日，因为它是太阳回归的日子，是冬季潮汐变更方向的日子。
The sun's highest point in the sky, seen in this analemma, occurs during the summer solstice, while its lowest point is during winter solstice.
夏至期间，你能看到从8字曲线中看到的太阳在空中最高点，在冬至期间能够看到其最低点。
Literally meaning "clear" (Qing) and "bright" (Ming), this Chinese festival falls in early spring, on the 106th day after the winter solstice.
字面上的意思就是“清楚”(清)和“明亮”(明)，这个中国节日在早春，在冬至后的106天。
On winter solstice - the shortest day of the year - Chinese people eat sticky rice dumpling soup, which is an indication that you are one year older.
依照传统习俗，华人冬至都会吃汤圆，在农历年来说，这也代表了多一岁。
In east China's Shandong Province, there is a traditional saying like this: "eat dumplings on the Winter Solstice and eat noodles on the Summer Solstice."
在中国东部的山东省，有一个像这样的传统说法：“冬至饺子夏至面”。
In east China's Shandong Province, there is a traditional saying like this: "eat dumplings on the Winter Solstice and eat noodles on the Summer Solstice."
在中国东部的山东省，有一个像这样的传统说法：“冬至饺子夏至面”。
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