In Hangzhou, people in Hangzhou eat as much food from the winter solstice as in the New Year. However, it is said that since the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou people like to eat wonton from winter to Sunday. However, from the Ming Dynasty to the present, Hangzhou has changed its rice cakes. Hangzhou people are a little particular about their old roots. They eat three kinds of rice cakes on the day of winter solstice.

In Ningbo, people in Ningbo usually call the winter solstice "New Year's Eve". In fact, people in Ningbo also like to eat rice cakes. On the solstice of winter, they will eat baked turnip rice cakes, but Ningbo people's favorite winter solstice food is called "sweet potato soup fruit" locally.

In fact, outsiders don't know what magic food this is. Sweet potato is sweet potato or sweet potato "pulp board" refers to sweet wine, "tangguo" refers to small glutinous rice balls, which will be sprinkled with osmanthus. Eating sweet potato means "turning over", and wine represents the sweetness of the coming year.

Winter solstice:

The winter solstice, also known as "Winter Festival" and "Happy Winter", is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the eight astronomical solar terms, which is opposite to the summer solstice. The winter solstice begins when the sun reaches 270 degrees of the yellow meridian, which is about 65438+February 22 of the Gregorian calendar every year. According to legend, the solstice in winter is the New Year's Day of the Zhou Dynasty in history, and it was once a very lively day.

On the solstice in winter, the direct sunlight reaches the southernmost point of the year, almost directly on the tropic of Capricorn. On this day, the northern hemisphere gets the least sunshine, 50% less than the southern hemisphere. The days in the northern hemisphere are the shortest, and the farther north they are, the shorter they are.