Winter Solstice recipes include mutton soup, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, egg noodles, Leiyuan, mochi, winter wine making, red bean glutinous rice, nine-layer cake, and sweet potato soup.

1. Mutton soup

Mutton soup is a dish. The main raw materials include mutton, chili oil, pepper noodles, salt, etc. The soup is white, fat but not greasy, and has no flavor. Tanwei, there are local snacks with different characteristics all over the country.

2. Tangyuan

Tangyuan is one of the representatives of Han nationality’s traditional snacks. Tangyuan expresses the ancient people's yearning and expectation for a happy life.

3. New Year Cake

New Year Cake is a traditional food of the Chinese Han people and is a seasonal food during the Lunar New Year. Nian gao is a cake made from rice or glutinous rice, which is boiled and beaten or ground into powder with water and then pressed.

4. Egg noodles

Eating Winter Solstice noodles is a custom in northern Anhui during the Winter Solstice. "Winter Solstice Noodles", commonly known as "Dried Noodles", is one of the types of noodles and is traditionally handmade by local people.

5. Leiyuan

Leiyuan is made of glutinous rice flour. First, knead the glutinous rice flour and warm water into a dough, then cut it into balls the size of a vinegar saucer, knead them into balls, and cook them. Then add it to the bean yellow powder and mix it. Because this process is called "Lei" in Linhai dialect, the winter solstice round is named "Leiyuan".

6. Mochi

Mochi is a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. It is also a traditional snack of Fujian people and an offering for Fujian people during sacrifices. Mochi can be dried in the shade and then steamed, pan-fried, grilled or stir-fried.

7. Winter winemaking

Traditional Gusu people drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice. Winter wine is a kind of rice wine brewed with osmanthus and has a pleasant aroma. In the supermarkets in the streets and alleys of the ancient city of Suzhou, winter wine is piled up like a "hill". Winter wine, which is only brewed once a year, is fragrant, sweet and refreshing.

8. Red bean and glutinous rice

In the Jiangnan water towns, there is a custom of the whole family gathering together to eat red bean and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. Red bean glutinous rice is a home-cooked dish made with glutinous rice and peanuts as the main ingredients, and bacon, salt, and chicken powder as ingredients.

9. Nine-layer cake

Nine-layer cake is a sweet rice cake with exquisite workmanship. The folk method is to soak white rice, grind it into gouache with a stone mill, stir it into a slurry, add sugar water, put a thin layer of gouache on a copper plate, heat and steam it, and then add powder layer by layer to reach nine layers. The steamed nine-layer cake has distinct layers, is soft and delicious.

10. Sweet potato soup

In Ningbo’s traditional customs, sweet potato soup is one of the must-eat delicacies during the winter solstice. "Fan" and "fan" have the same pronunciation. In the understanding of Ningbo people, eating sweet potatoes during the winter solstice means "turning over" all the bad luck in the past year.