During the Winter Solstice, eat dumplings, dumplings, mutton soup, glutinous rice balls, red bean and glutinous rice, etc.

1. Dumplings: On the winter solstice every year, no matter rich or poor, dumplings are an essential holiday meal. Dumplings are sold in major supermarkets and shopping malls.

As the proverb goes: "On October 1st, when the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings."

2. Chaos: There is a saying in old Beijing that "Winter Solstice Wontons and Summer Solstice Noodles" are popular.

"Yanjing Chronicles" says: "The shape of husband's wonton is like a chicken egg, which is quite similar to the chaos of heaven and earth, so it occurs during the winter solstice during the solar eclipse." In addition to the similarity in shape, "wonton" is also homophonic with "chaos".

Eating wontons in winter is beneficial to saving heat energy in cold seasons.

3. Mutton soup: The custom of eating mutton during the Winter Solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty.

According to legend, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, ate the mutton cooked by Fan Kuai on the day of the winter solstice. He thought it tasted particularly delicious and was full of praise.

Since then, the folk custom of eating mutton during the Winter Solstice has been formed.

People eat mutton and various nutritious foods on the day of the winter solstice in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

4. Tangyuan: There is a poem from the ancients: "Every family pounded rice to make glutinous rice balls, and they knew it was the winter solstice in the Ming Dynasty." Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is a traditional custom in my country, especially popular in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a saying among the people that "eating glutinous rice balls will make you feel better." "years old".

Tangyuan is also called glutinous rice balls, and eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings"; glutinous rice balls can be used to worship ancestors and can also be used to give to relatives and friends.

5. Red bean and glutinous rice: In the Jiangnan water towns, there is a custom of the whole family gathering together to eat red bean and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice.

According to legend, there was an untalented man of the Gong clan of the Han Dynasty who committed many evil deeds and died on the winter solstice. After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued to harm the people.

However, this plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to prevent disasters and cure diseases.