Most areas in Shanxi Province are used to eating jiaozi. It is said that eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter won't freeze your ears. The tradition in mountainous areas is to eat cakes. Prosperous boiled rape root rice soup in southern Shanxi. In some places, they still eat wonton, and there is a saying that "it's winter to the sun, and summer to the sun". Jiaocheng, Wenshui and other places in Shanxi pay attention to eating mutton jiaozi from winter solstice. Because mutton is hot, it can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen.

After the winter solstice, you will enter the weather on September 9, so you should pay attention to cold and warmth. When the temperature drops below 0℃, clothes should be added in time. Clothes and trousers should be warm, soft and loose, and should not be worn too tightly to facilitate blood flow.

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Winter Solstice Customs in North and South China

south

Many places in southern China will celebrate the winter solstice. Winter solstice is a traditional festival to worship the heavens and ancestors, and it is one of the eight major festivals in a year. On this day, people should worship their ancestors to God. There is a saying that "the winter festival is as big as a year, and it will never come back." People who go out must go home to worship their ancestors on the solstice of winter. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. After the ancestor worship ceremony, there is usually a big banquet to entertain the people who come to worship their ancestors. Everyone drinks heartily and contacts each other with long-lost feelings. Many places regard the winter solstice as a festival of reunion.

north

In many parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." North China will eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi means "dispelling cold". Up to now, there is a folk proverb that "on the solstice of winter, jiaozi bowls are improper and nobody cares about frozen ears".