Eating jiaozi in Chaoshan, Guangdong On the solstice of winter, the Han people in Chaoshan said that "the winter festival is as big as a year" and "the winter festival has not returned to the ancestors". This means that people who go out must go home to worship their ancestors on the solstice in winter anyway, otherwise they will have no concept of ancestral home. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait attach great importance to the winter solstice and regard it as a festival of reunion.
After eating the Winter Festival jiaozi, Chaoshan people always put two Winter Festival jiaozi on the doors, windows, tables, cabinets, ladders, beds and other conspicuous places at home, even the bow of fishermen's boats, the horns of farmers' cows and fruit trees planted by fruit farmers are no exception.
On the solstice of winter, Hefei eats pumpkin pie. After the winter solstice, people in Hefei will eat pumpkin pie on the winter solstice. The streets and alleys are filled with the smell of pumpkin pie, and there is a proverb called "Eating noodles from winter to day makes the day longer", which means that after winter to day, the night will become shorter and the day will become shorter.