The old tradition is called "Worship the Winter Solstice". According to the old Ningbo custom, winter solstice soup is made. On the morning of the winter solstice, one also eats a bowl of sweet sweet potato soup and fruit. Eating the soup and fruit makes you one year older, which means that all the previous bad luck can be "turned over". Eat a few rice dumplings and glutinous rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice on this day, which symbolizes reunion and perfection. Old Ningbo people also make grilled vegetable rice cakes to express their good wishes of "higher years" and "roasting noises".

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Winter Solstice breakfast, the first choice of Ningbo people, is a bowl of hot and fragrant sweet potato soup, which is appropriate for the occasion and warms the stomach. Add a spoonful of fermented rice wine to the sweet potato soup, which is what Ningbo people call "pulp board". There is a lot of good news hidden in this spoonful.

Among the twenty-four solar terms, the winter solstice is the first to be determined. In the Zhou Dynasty, people regarded the winter solstice as the beginning of the year. There is a record in "Zhou Rites" that "the winter solstice is used to send greetings to gods, humans and ghosts". Every year on this day, the emperor would hold a New Year's Eve ceremony with his three ministers and nine ministers.

In Ningbo’s Winter Solstice custom, a bowl of hot, fragrant and sweet sweet potato soup “must have a name”.

This may be related to the good wishes "hidden" in the sweet potato soup - the arrival of the winter solstice means that the year is coming to an end, and the words "fan" and "fan" in sweet potato have the same pronunciation, which means that all the bad luck in the past year will be wiped out. Turn over; Tang Guo is also called "Yuanzi" by many Ningbo people, which means reunion and perfection;