Eating dumplings in the south and north during the winter solstice means reunion. Southerners are used to making or buying dumplings for themselves, and eating dumplings on the winter solstice means the winter solstice group. Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice flour, with black sesame seeds and peanut butter as fillings. It tastes soft, glutinous and sweet, which is good for your health. Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice not only conforms to the custom, but also symbolizes family reunion and happiness.

Jiaozi is eaten in the south and the north during the winter solstice. jiaozi is one of the most common traditional foods in the north in winter, and almost every household will pack jiaozi. Jiaozi has the meaning of "making friends". In ancient times, the Winter Solstice Festival was equivalent to the Spring Festival, and the day before the Winter Solstice was the end of the year, so the Winter Solstice meant the alternation of the old and the new, and eating jiaozi had the meaning of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new.

Nowadays, there are still many kinds of food that people eat in jiaozi, such as pork and mushroom stuffing, green pepper pork stuffing, cabbage pork stuffing and so on. jiaozi is rich in nutrition and delicious. Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice can strengthen the body and help the body resist the cold.

Winter solstice special food

In the winter solstice in Guangxi, tofu bags are eaten, tofu is fried into a hollow, meat is put in and steamed. In Changzhou, the custom of eating tofu stewed with shallots on the eve of the winter solstice has been circulating, and there is a proverb that "if you eat hot winter, you won't eat frozen winter". On the winter solstice, every household in Nanjing eats tofu cooked with shallots, which is a kind of "teasing".

Wonton There is a saying in old Beijing that "Winter Solstice Wonton Noodle in Summer Solstice". When Yanjing was old, it was said that "Wonton is shaped like a chicken egg, which is quite similar to the chaos of heaven and earth, so it is eaten in the winter solstice". In addition to its similar shape, "Wonton" is also homophonic with "chaos" to eat wonton in winter, which is beneficial to jiaozi in cold season.

In Taiwan Province, there is a custom to worship ancestors in the winter solstice, and glutinous cakes are an important food for ancestor worship. The glutinous rice flour is kneaded into animals such as chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cattle and sheep, which symbolize good luck and good luck, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to worship ancestors to show that they will not forget their ancestors.