Foods eaten on the day of winter include: dumplings, dumplings, and jiao dong ji.

1, dumplings

In the northern region of China, there is the custom of eating dumplings on the first day of winter, to improve the life on the first day of winter, and it is good to eat but dumplings. In the north, the rule of winter is to eat dumplings, because dumplings are shaped like ears, and people believe that if they eat them, their ears will not freeze in winter. In addition, the dumplings are called "jiaozi", which means that winter is the beginning of the fall and winter seasons.

2, dumplings

Ningbo people have the custom of eating dumplings on the day of winter to show reunion and good luck. There are many kinds of dumplings, can be made into a variety of fillings, common peanuts, sesame, walnuts, jujube paste, hawthorn, etc., sweet but not greasy, fragrant. At the same time, soup dumplings also symbolize sweet life and reunion.

3, cross winter patties

The day of the winter, Zhangzhou's rural families to pound "cross winter patties" to celebrate the good harvest. Glutinous rice steamed and poured into the stone mortar, pounded tough, sticky, pulled into the size of a ping-pong ball, carefully kneaded into a ball; peanut rice fried fragrant, finely ground, and sugar mixed together. The mochi is rolled in sugar and peanut flour and placed in a large bowl. It is also known as "rattling mochi" because it is eaten with chopsticks, like a rattlesnake. When the mochi is ready, the god of the land is honored and thanked for his generosity.

History of Lidong

Lidong is the first solar term of the winter season, representing the beginning of winter and the beginning of the third month of winter. It is the beginning of the third month of winter. Together with spring, summer and autumn, it is known as the "Four Lives". Spring planting, summer cultivation, autumn harvest, winter storage, everything in the spring sprouting, in the summer growth, harvest in the fall, in the winter rest. Winter, means that anger began to close storage, all things into recuperation, collection state, grass and trees withered, dormant insects. Such as "filial piety Jingwei" said: "Doo refers to dry, for the winter, winter, the end is also, all things are collected."

On the division of the four seasons, China has traditionally taken the "twenty-four solar terms" as the beginning of the four seasons, and the "two divisions" as the beginning of the four seasons, and the "two divisions" as the beginning of the four seasons, and the "two divisions" as the beginning of the four seasons. The "two equinoxes" (spring and fall equinoxes) and "two solstices" (summer and winter solstices) are the midpoints of the four seasons, which have obvious astronomical meanings. The change of seasons throughout the year is a continuous process. It is also the process of yin and yang transformation, the process of quantitative change resulting in qualitative change. In this process of gradual change, the beginning of spring, summer, fall and winter are the opening of the seasons, the turning point in the twenty-four seasons.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia - Rising Winter