Eating glutinous rice balls has been established in the Ming and Qing dynasties. On the winter solstice, it is necessary to "make rice balls" or "make glutinous rice balls". These are also officially recorded in historical materials, which are called "Winter Solstice, powdered glutinous rice is a pill, named' Tangyuan'". After making dumplings, you should worship the gods and ancestors, and then eat them around the family, which is called "adding years." Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is ancient.

2. Baba

According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the winter solstice will be a feast, and there are many people involved, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba on the winter solstice. And whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, we should make Ciba. Therefore, in my hometown, Ciba is called "Da Ci", and now the common dumplings are called "Xiao Ci" with some disdain.

3. Sweet pills

According to legend, the custom of "drinking wine and dishes, paying tribute to aged person" has existed in the Winter Solstice of Han Dynasty. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has been popular to eat sweet pills. Sweet pill is not only a sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water-rubbed pills, but also the most representative food on the winter solstice. Before the winter solstice, farmers' housewives made glutinous rice flour in succession (nowadays, it is mostly rolled mechanically), and some exchanged needed goods as gifts for relatives and friends.