The main customs of the winter solstice festival include: brewing rice wine, eating glutinous rice balls, eating barbecue and ginger rice, eating sweet potato soup, eating jiaozi and drinking mutton soup.

First, brew rice wine.

Traditional Gusu people will drink winter wine on the night of winter solstice, and the winter wine will be brewed with glutinous rice or yellow rice and osmanthus.

Second, eat jiaozi.

Eating dumplings is a traditional custom from winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an indispensable food in winter solstice, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is also called "the solstice in winter". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older".

Third, eat barbecue and ginger rice.

Some places in the south want to eat barbecue on the solstice in winter. On the solstice of winter, roasted meat becomes an indispensable delicacy on the table of Guangdong and Guangxi people, which means adding vegetables to add years. In winter solstice, Wuchuan people are famous for eating "ginger rice" in winter solstice.

Fourth, eat sweet potato soup.

In the traditional customs of Ningbo, sweet potato soup is one of the must-eat foods in winter solstice. "Fan" and "Fan" are homophones. In Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the solstice in winter means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year. Tang Guo is similar to jiaozi, much smaller and without stuffing.

Tang Guo is also called jiaozi, which means "reunion" and "perfection". There is also a saying in old Ningbo that "you are one year older after eating soup". People in Ningbo are used to adding wine to sweet potato soup. In Ningbo dialect, wine-making is also called "pulp board", and "pulp" is homophonic with "sheng" in Ningbo dialect, taking its lewdness of "high luck" and "high happiness"

Five, eat jiaozi.

In many parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. North China will eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi means "driving away the cold". So far, there is a folk proverb that says "no one will care if you freeze your ears on the winter solstice".

Sixth, drink mutton soup.

Every winter solstice, Chengjian Expressway connecting Chengdu, Sichuan Province will usher in a busy time of the year. People drive into jianyang city, located on the east side of Longquan Mountain, just to find a steaming bowl of mutton soup.