During the winter solstice, Jiangxi eats mochi. Mochi is a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. It is also a traditional snack of Fujian people and an offering by Fujian people during sacrifices.

It can be steamed, fried, grilled or stir-fried after drying.

During the winter solstice, glutinous rice balls are eaten in Chaoshan, Guangdong. The folk proverbs of the Han people in Chaoshan area go like this: "The winter festival is as big as the new year" and "the ancestors will not return to the winter festival".

It means that people who go out must rush home to worship their ancestors on the winter solstice, otherwise they have no concept of ancestral family.

Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait attach great importance to the winter solstice and regard it as a reunion festival.

After people in Chaoshan eat the Winter Festival Yuan, they stick two Winter Festival Yuan on conspicuous places such as doors, windows, tables, cupboards, ladders, beds, etc. in their homes, even on the bows of fishermen's boats, the horns of farmers' cattle, and on fruit farmers' crops.

Fruit trees are no exception.

People in Hefei eat pumpkin cakes during the Winter Solstice. After the Winter Solstice, people in Hefei will eat pumpkin cakes during the New Year. The streets and alleys are filled with the fragrance of pumpkin cakes. There is also a proverb called "Eat Winter Solstice noodles, and you will grow taller every day." That is

After the winter solstice, the nights will become shorter.