Excuse me. There is no such thing as the winter solstice in foreign countries. The winter solstice is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. On this day, the night is the longest and the day is the shortest in the northern hemisphere. Commonly known as "winter festival", "long festival" and "sub-year-old". In China's traditional theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, the winter solstice is the key solar term for the transformation from Yin to Yang. In the twelfth year, the divination is a mine complex divination, which is called the winter solstice. Yi Fu divination said, "Thunder is in the ground, and it will recover. The first king even closed the door to Japan, and business travel was not good, so he was not saved afterwards. " 1February 2 1 day to1February 22, the sun is located at 270 degrees of the ecliptic, and it is directly on the tropic of Capricorn. It is recorded in the "Etiquette Records" in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "Before and after the Winter Solstice, Jia Zi lived quietly, refused to listen to politics, chose auspicious days and then saved trouble." This shows that the winter solstice has been a national holiday since the Han Dynasty. At present, Macao is the only area in Chinese society where the winter solstice is a public holiday. In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi on the winter solstice, and in some places in the south, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. It is said that Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint in the Han Dynasty, was mindful of the hard work of his hometown villagers in the cold winter. On the winter solstice, he used mutton and other cold-dispelling herbs to wrap them in dough and make them look like ears to treat the villagers. The name of this prescription is "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction", and Jiaoer is dumplings. In southern China, there is a custom of eating sweet food such as glutinous rice balls. For example, people in Fuzhou eat glutinous rice on the winter solstice (pronounced as Si in Fuzhou dialect). In addition to eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, we also eat osmanthus wine and worship our ancestors. Suzhou also has osmanthus winter wine, which is only listed at this festival. The big glutinous rice balls with stuffing are used to worship ancestors at night, while the smaller glutinous rice balls without stuffing are used to worship gods in the morning. After the ancestor worship, there are also sticky dumplings on the doors and windows, which are called "Winter Festival Round". After drying, they will be given to the children, which will help them grow up healthily. The winter solstice grave sweeping is called "winter paper". Volume 7 of Taiwan Province Prefecture Records (1696) records: "On the winter solstice, people make rice balls to worship the gods and ancestors, and the whole family eats them, which is called' adding years'; That is, the so-called' Asian age' in ancient times. A pill is glued to each door and door, which is called' expense'. It's a day when people of all ages worship their ancestors and celebrate the festival, just like New Year's Day. In Taiwan Province, there are red and white dumplings on the winter solstice, and there are also larger dumplings with stuffing such as zhixun, peanuts or fresh meat. In China, people count nine from the winter solstice, with nine days as 19, and 9981 days, the winter will pass, which is called 999 counting. As the saying goes everywhere, "winter solstice supplements, spring kills tigers", Shanghai Chuansha: winter solstice cauliflower year barley Guangdong: winter is the big New Year (winter solstice is more important than Chinese New Year), as the end of the year, the family must get together for dinner, and eat dumplings before or after meals, which means family reunion. Hong Kong: "It's freezing in winter and freezing in the year" (the weather is not cold on the winter solstice, but it will be cold during the New Year)