Must-eat delicacies during the Winter Solstice include dumplings, rice cakes, wontons, glutinous rice balls, mutton soup, roasted pork, dog meat, sweet balls, nine-layer cakes, glutinous rice cakes, egg noodles, rolled balls, wine making, mutton cakes, sauces, etc.

1. Dumplings It is said that dumplings originated from the ancient "jiaozi" and were invented by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing. After more than a thousand years of development, they have gradually become a special delicacy commonly eaten by northerners.

Common dumplings are generally salty, and the main fillings include pork, shiitake mushrooms, three delicacies, leeks, and pork.

2. Eat rice cakes. From the late Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China until now, Hangzhou people like to eat rice cakes during the winter solstice.

During the winter solstice, we make three meals of rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes with sesame powder mixed with white sugar. At noon, we eat fried rice cakes with fried vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, and shredded pork. For dinner, we eat rice cakes in soup with mustard mustard, shredded pork, and shredded bamboo shoots.

Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will make you grow taller every year, which is auspicious.

3. Wonton There has always been a saying in Beijing that "Winter Solstice Wonton is Summer Solstice Noodle".

Wonton is a kind of delicacy made of water and flour, and then filled with some fillings. It is a bit similar to dumplings, but different.

Wonton is what people in Beijing call it, people in Guangdong call it "wonton", people in Sichuan call it "chaoshou", and people in Anhui call it "baggage".

4. Tangyuan Eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is a traditional custom in some areas in the south of the Yangtze River. Glutinous rice balls are also called glutinous rice balls. Eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings".

The fillings of glutinous rice balls are often thin-skinned, glutinous but not sticky, white and crystal clear, sweet and delicious. Nowadays, glutinous rice balls are not only eaten during the winter solstice, but can be eaten all year round.

5. Mutton Soup It is also very good to drink mutton soup during the winter solstice. In Shandong region of China, there has always been a habit of drinking mutton soup during the winter solstice. The winter solstice is the coldest time of the year, so it is very comfortable to drink some mutton soup in time.