The Winter Solstice Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and has been passed down to this day. Lu even said that the winter solstice is as big as a year. This shows that the ancients attached great importance to the winter solstice, and people thought that the winter solstice was a natural transformation of yin and yang and a blessing from heaven.

Some places eat wonton, and there is a saying that "it's winter to the sun, and summer to the sun". It is said that eating glutinous rice balls from winter solstice in some areas in the south is developed from red beans and glutinous rice.

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There is also a folk proverb: Eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, but don't freeze your ears. Because the shape of jiaozi is similar to ears, if you eat hot jiaozi on the solstice in winter, your ears will be protected this winter.

Jiaozi originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was initiated by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable delicacy.

Dumpling skin can also use hot soup noodles, crispy noodles, egg steps or rice noodles; The stuffing can be vegetarian, sweet and salty; Cooking methods can also be steaming, roasting, frying, frying, etc. There are three kinds of meat stuffing, shrimp, crab roe, sea cucumber, fish, chicken, pork, beef and mutton. And vegetarian stuffing is divided into assorted vegetarian stuffing and ordinary vegetarian stuffing.