Every winter solstice, Hangzhou people will make cakes to offer to their ancestors or gifts to friends and relatives. In terms of diet, all three meals will be made different flavors of rice cakes, sesame powder mixed with sugar rice cakes, fried rice cakes with shredded meat and so on a wide variety. Hangzhou people eat rice cakes on the winter solstice for good luck, meaning that they will grow taller every year.

The winter solstice, an important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar, is also a traditional festival of the Chinese people, the winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "the year of the year", etc. The winter solstice is also known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "the year of the year" and so on. The winter solstice is also a traditional festival of the Chinese people. As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China has been using the earth to observe the sun, determined the winter solstice, it is the twenty-four solar terms in the earliest formulation of a time in the annual calendar between December 21 to 23 days.

The Book of Han has the following saying: "The winter solstice is the beginning of Yang Qi, and the way of the ruler is long, so congratulations", which means that people began to celebrate the winter solstice festival in order to celebrate the arrival of a new year. Ancient people believed that since the winter solstice began, the yang qi of heaven and earth began to rise and grow stronger, representing the beginning of the next cycle, a day of great good fortune. Therefore, later on, customs such as ancestor worship and family dinners during the Chinese New Year were often chosen at the winter solstice. The winter solstice is also known as the "small year", one is to show that the end of the year is approaching, there are not many days left; the second is to indicate the importance of the winter solstice.