1. Eat Winter Solstice noodles. "Eat Winter Solstice noodles and you will grow taller every day."

In Hefei, Anhui, the custom of eating noodles during the winter solstice is related to solar terms, climate, and farming.

After the winter solstice, it is time to count the nine cold days, and count to nine every nine days.

In the severe winter when dripping water turns into ice, eating a bowl of hot egg noodles is considered to have passed the winter solstice.

2. Drink old hen soup. The winter solstice announces the true arrival of winter.

In addition to eating Winter Solstice noodles, drinking old hen soup is also a habit passed down for many years, because China has the habit of taking supplements during the winter solstice, and old chicken soup has always been considered nutritious. However, now that conditions have improved, old hen soup is no longer only available during the winter solstice.

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But Hefei people still retain the habit of drinking old hen soup during the winter solstice.

3. The method of eating pumpkin cake is very simple. Peel and remove the flesh from the pumpkin, wash and cut into pieces; then put it in a pot, add a little water, cook and mash it into a puree; add minced green onions to the pumpkin puree.

, refined salt, and rice flour, mix well; dip your hands in some water, use your right palm to scoop out a lump of pumpkin puree, and then cooperate with your left hand; knead the pumpkin puree into a cake shape about 3 cm thick, the size of your palm, and steam it over high heat.

...4. To eat pumpkin cake, peel the pumpkin, remove the heart and seeds, cut it into slices, and steam it in a cage.