The foods Anhui people eat during the Winter Solstice include: Winter Solstice noodles, dumplings, fried goods, old hen soup, glutinous rice balls, etc.

1. Eating Winter Solstice Noodles In Hefei City, the custom of eating noodles during the Winter Solstice is related to the season, climate, and farm work.

After the winter solstice, it is time to count the nine cold days. Every nine days, count one nine.

In the cold winter when dripping water turns into ice, eating a bowl of hot egg noodles can be regarded as the passing of the winter solstice.

2. Eating dumplings during the winter solstice will keep your ears from freezing. This saying comes from Zhang Zhongjing. He saw that people’s ears were cracked by freezing in the cold, so he used toast to make cold-dispersing Chinese medicinal materials and boiled them to make "Jiao Er Decoction" to cure the cold.

It's good for people's ears.

Nowadays, eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice is no longer to cure frozen ears, but the effective combination of noodles, vegetables, and meat makes dumplings a delicacy with comprehensive nutrition and easy to digest.

3. Eating fried food Eating fried food is the most popular thing for Anhui people, especially on the winter solstice.

Gardens, potatoes, pumpkin cakes, dried seeds, sweet potatoes, etc., will all face the fate of being "fried" on this day.

On this day every year, Anhui people will fry a lot of delicious food so that they don’t have to buy breakfast for a long time.

Folks in Feixi County have the custom of eating noodles, fried pumpkin and fried eggs on the Winter Solstice.

4. Old hen soup In Anhui, drinking old hen soup has been a habit passed down for many years.

In China, there is a custom of taking supplements during the Winter Solstice.

In winter, it is necessary to properly supplement nutrition, and old hen soup has always been considered a nutritious tonic.

Although the conditions of most people have improved now, the habit of drinking old hen soup still continues.

5. Eating glutinous rice balls is also a must. Anhui glutinous rice balls are so big that there is basically no room for the second one in the bowl.

The winter solstice has not yet arrived, and every household has prepared large portions of sesame noodles to come in handy on the winter solstice.