1, eat winter solstice noodles
In Hefei, Anhui Province, the custom of eating noodles during the winter solstice is related to solar terms, climate and farming. After the winter solstice, it is cold for nine days, and it is counted as nine every nine days. In the freezing winter, eating a bowl of hot egg noodles is considered as a winter solstice.
2. Drink old hen soup
The winter solstice announces the real coming of winter. Besides eating noodles on the winter solstice, drinking old hen soup is also a habit handed down for many years. Because China has the habit of tonic on the winter solstice, old chicken soup has always been considered by everyone to be rich in nutrition. But now that the conditions are good, old hen soup is no longer a rare thing to drink on the winter solstice, but Hefei people still keep the habit of drinking old hen soup on the winter solstice.
Winter Solstice
The winter solstice is commonly known as "winter festival" and "sub-year-old". The ancients thought it was a blessing from heaven, so they set it as the beginning of a year's festival, and there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as a year".
The winter solstice is an auspicious day, so all kinds of celebrations should be held from the emperor down to the people. The rulers of all previous dynasties chose to worship the sky on the winter solstice. "Sacrificing the sky" is the ancient "suburban sacrifice" ceremony, which is a ceremony that emperors of all previous dynasties must hold on the winter solstice to pray for blessings. On the night before the sacrifice, the emperor had to fast and bathe, live in the fasting palace and prepare to hold a sacrifice ceremony on the winter solstice.
In the folk, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors on the winter solstice. At the same time, people have to offer shoes and socks to their parents and elders. This custom is still very popular now.