The winter solstice is cold, and it is near the Chinese New Year, so Sichuanese will cook mutton soup, on the one hand, to drive away the cold in winter, on the other hand, they can also use mutton soup to supplement nutrition. When cooking mutton soup, you can choose radish or lotus root to cook together. When the mutton soup is almost cooked, you can put some hawthorn into it, which can remove the smell of mutton soup and make the mutton soup taste better.

The winter solstice, also known as the short solstice, winter festival and sub-year-old, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival in China. The winter solstice is one of the four seasons and eight festivals, which is regarded as a big holiday in winter. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year. The custom of winter solstice is different in content or detail because of different regions. In southern China, there is the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and feasting on the winter solstice. In the northern part of China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice.