The winter solstice in Chaoshan city eat soup dumplings; the winter solstice customs in Chaoshan cities and counties are basically the same, there are sweet pills, divination and other customs.

1, Winter Solstice Diet:

Reunion Dinner: In the Chaoshan area, the winter solstice is a day of reunion, on which the family will try to catch up with a warm reunion dinner. Elders will say at the winter dinner, "There are reunion pills and money from glutinous rice bran. If you eat celery and garlic, you will have money to convince (hide)." Although the names of the foods suggest they are all homophonic, it also shows that the Chaoshan people value family and look forward to the good wishes of reunion.

Eating winter solstice pills: The Chaoshan people have "eaten winter festival for more than a year", in which "winter festival" is dumplings, which are also called sweet pills in the Chaoshan area, and the custom of eating sweet pills on winter solstice is scattered almost all over the entire Chaoshan area. In the Chaoshan area, before the Winter Festival, every family must use glutinous rice flour to make glutinous rice soup balls.

2, the custom of sticking sweet pills: a long time ago, these sweet pills were not only used for eating, people would also stick the sweet pills on the roofs of their houses, which were rounded on the roof beams to indicate the next year's harvest for the whole family gatherings, followed by thanking the rats for sending the grain seeds to the farmers. Today, people no longer insist on eating sweet pills, but the custom of eating sweet pills on the winter solstice is still popular.

3. The custom of divination: The winter festivals are characterized by an influx of people, usually accompanied by divination activities. There is rain on the winter solstice, and the year is closed as in the folk song, which says: "Cold vacation, New Year's Eve; winter red, big night (wet)." Meaning that if there is sunshine in winter, it is too late. It rains; on the contrary, the weather is fine.

Also, some people use winter holiday medicine to divine males or the birth of a girl. If there is a new wife this year, pour the soup pills into the well in the morning after completing health work. Then, the newdaughter woman is told to rush for water. If the pills are beatable, then a boy is born. Someone fills a sieve with two pills at a time until the end. If only one remains, then the boy is born.