During the winter solstice, the southern coastal areas of western Guangdong, Chaoshan, and Zhejiang continue the traditional custom of worshiping ancestors. In some places, they also worship the gods of heaven and land, and kowtow to the gods.

Traditional foods during the Winter Solstice include: roasted pork and ginger rice, rice cakes, dumplings, mutton soup, glutinous rice, winter solstice dumplings (glutinous rice balls) and other foods.

1. Roast pork and ginger rice. Cantonese people eat roast pork and ginger rice during the Winter Solstice. On the Winter Solstice day, most Cantonese people have the custom of eating winter solstice meat with "added vegetables".

There is a folk proverb in Chaoshan area that "Dongjie pills can celebrate the New Year as soon as they are eaten", which is commonly known as "adding years to the year".

Hakka people believe that the water tastes most mellow during the winter solstice, so it has become a custom for the Hakka people to make wine during the winter solstice.

2. New Year Cake. Hangzhou people eat New Year Cake during the Winter Solstice. From the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty until now, Hangzhou people like to eat New Year Cake during the Winter Solstice.

On every winter solstice, three meals of rice cakes with different flavors are made. Eating rice cakes during the winter solstice will make you grow taller every year, which is auspicious.

3. Dumplings In many areas of northern my country, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year.

According to legend, when the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing saw the frozen people when he returned home from old age, he used mutton, some anti-cold medicinal materials and dough, wrapped them in the shape of ears, and made a medicine called "Expelling Cold and Correction of Ear Decoction" and gave it to the people.

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Later, every winter solstice, people would imitate and eat it, forming a custom.

4. Mutton Soup In Sichuan, mutton soup is eaten during the winter solstice. Mutton is the most nutritious in winter.

5. Glutinous rice In Hunan and Hubei, red bean and glutinous rice must be eaten on the day of the winter solstice.

6. Winter Solstice dumplings (glutinous rice balls) In some areas in the south, it is more popular to eat Winter Solstice dumplings (Winter Solstice balls), which means reunion.

Every winter solstice morning, every household grinds glutinous rice flour and stuffs it with sugar, meat, raisins, fruits, shredded radish, etc., and wraps it into winter solstice dumplings, which are not only eaten by their own family, but also given to relatives and friends as a token of blessing.

In fact, eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is a traditional custom in my country, and it is even more common in Jiangnan. There is also a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older".