Many places have the saying "winter solstice is as big as the year", thus forming a lot of customs, mainly in the diet, such as eating dog meat, wontons, dumplings, dumplings, azuki congee, kibu rice cake, brewing, etc. In some places, there are also ancestor worship. Some places also have to winter solstice ancestor worship.

Jiangnan belt there is the winter solstice night family gathering **** eat red beans sticky rice custom. This also has a story. Legend has it that a man called *** Gong's, his son is not talented, evil, died on the winter solstice this day, turned into an epidemic ghosts, continue to brutalize the people.

But the ghost of the epidemic is afraid of red beans, so people will be in the winter solstice this day to cook red beans and rice to eat, so you can avoid the ghost of the epidemic, disaster prevention and relief. In addition, some places are also fashionable to eat rice cakes, buckwheat noodles, nine layers of cake, "cake" and "high" resonance, implying that step by step.

Many places fashionable winter solstice to eat dog meat. This is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. Legend has it that Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, ate dog meat cooked by Fan What on the day of the winter solstice, and found the flavor particularly delicious, and praised it. As a result, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice was formed in the folklore. First of all, regardless of whether this legend is reliable or not, eat a little bit of dog meat in winter, can indeed drive away the cold and warm body.