Eating soup dumplings in winter is a symbol of reunion.

Soup dumplings, also known as "dumplings", "floating yuanzi", is one of the representatives of the traditional Han snacks. According to legend, soup dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province), the rise of a novelty food, that is, with black sesame, lard as a filling, adding a little sugar, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet and soft, with a long aftertaste.

The word "dumplings" is similar to the word "reunion", which symbolizes the reunion of loved ones and happiness. At the same time, eating dumplings also means that in the new year the whole family is happy, reunion. Eating soup dumplings on the winter solstice is especially popular in Jiangnan. Folk also say "eat a year older than the dumplings". Winter solstice dumplings can be used for ancestor worship, but also can be used to give each other friends and relatives.

Other winter customs:

1, eat dumplings

In northern China, there is a winter festival to eat dumplings custom, because the dumplings are shaped like an ear, people believe that if you eat it, your ears in winter will not be frozen. In addition, dumplings are also known as "jiaozi," which means that the beginning of winter is the beginning of the fall and winter seasons.

2, brewing yellow wine

The day of winter began brewing yellow wine, is the traditional Shaoxing winemaking customs. In winter, the water is clear and cold, and the temperature is low, which enables the wine to form a good flavor in the low-temperature fermentation process for a long time, and it is the most suitable season for brewing and fermentation. Therefore, Shaoxing people call the period from the beginning of winter to the beginning of spring the most suitable time for making yellow wine "winter brewing" to pray for welfare.

3. Sacrifice

Lidong was one of the "Four Seasons and Eight Festivals" in ancient times, and it was a very important festival. In some parts of China, there were customs of sacrificing to ancestors, having banquets, and divining the age of the year, etc., so as to offer seasonal delicacies to the ancestors and spirits to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of human descendants. The festival is a great opportunity to pray to God for a good year ahead.