Eating dumplings at the beginning of winter is a sign of the transition between fall and winter. This is why dumplings are known as "jiaozi" (交子) in many places. Eating dumplings at the beginning of winter is partly to celebrate the harvest of autumn and partly to wish for a good winter and a happy life.

Eating dumplings was originally popular in the northern part of the country, and then the south can also see this custom, and now there are many kinds on the market, common pork and cabbage filling, pork and celery filling, pork and fennel filling, mutton and carrots filling, leeks and eggs, etc., there are meat and vegetarian, according to their own favorite taste to choose.

Nowadays, some of them are hand-packed, some go directly to the supermarket to buy, but in the day of winter to eat, we hope to be able to increase the nutrition, and pray for a family are safe and healthy.

The meaning of the Lidong festival

Lidong is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, but also one of the traditional Chinese festivals; time point in the Gregorian calendar between November 7-8 each year, that is, the sun is located in the yellow longitude 225 °. At this time, the Earth is located in the equatorial latitude -16 ° 19', the height of the sun at noon in the Beijing area is only 33 ° 47'.

After the first day of winter, sunlight hours will continue to shorten and the height of the sun at noon will continue to decrease. Chinese people take the first day of winter as the beginning of winter, and during the first day of winter, there are food customs that need to be supplemented in order to survive the harsh winter.

Li, build the beginning also, said the beginning of winter. Winter is the end of the meaning of the crops harvested to collect the meaning of China and the winter as the beginning of winter.