The customs of winter solstice in Gansu include eating pasta, eating jiaozi, steaming steamed bread, tasting rice with cows and babies, and making a fire.

Eating pasta: In most parts of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, almost all the food eaten on the day of winter solstice is noodle soup, which has a unique taste and rich and delicious soup. It is a hot food in winter.

Eat jiaozi: A large part of Gansu also eats jiaozi on the solstice this winter, and jiaozi is afraid of freezing ears. There are many kinds of jiaozi in Gansu, and there are many kinds of tricks in jiaozi.

In Gansu, people call the winter solstice "winter festival", "winter festival", "winter festival" and "bliss". The solstice in winter is the day with the shortest day and the longest night in a year, and it is also the day when the yang spirit reaches the lowest point and the yin spirit reaches the highest point. So in the south, people will use activities such as "sweeping the house" and "cleaning" to disperse.

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Brief introduction of Gansu province

Gansu Province, referred to as "Gan" or "Long" for short, is a provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Lanzhou as its capital. It is located in the northwest of China, bordering Shaanxi in the east, Xinjiang in the west, Sichuan and Qinghai in the south, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in the north, and Mongolia in the northwest, with a latitude of 3211'-42. The total area is 425,800 square kilometers. By the end of 2022, there were 12 prefecture-level cities and 2 autonomous prefectures in Gansu Province. By the end of 2022, the resident population of Gansu Province was 24,924,200.

Gansu has a long and narrow landform, which is complex and diverse. Surrounded by mountains, plateaus, plains, valleys, deserts and Gobi, the terrain inclines from southwest to northeast. Gansu is located at the intersection of the Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Inner Mongolia Plateau. Climate types from south to north include subtropical monsoon climate, temperate monsoon climate, temperate continental arid climate and plateau mountain climate. The representative culture of Gansu history is "Dragon Culture".

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gansu Province