1. Dumplings The winter solstice is here, eat dumplings!

Dumplings are one of the indispensable foods during the Winter Solstice.

Every year on the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, dumplings are an essential holiday meal for everyone, rich or poor.

As the saying goes: On October 1st, when the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings.

This custom was left behind in commemoration of the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing giving away medicine during the winter solstice.

Eating dumplings during the winter solstice is to remember the kindness of "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing's "Quhan Jiao Er Soup".

To this day, there is still a folk saying in many places that "if you don't bring dumpling bowls during the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care".

There are a variety of dumpling fillings, and everyone has their own preferences.

However, when eating dumplings on the Winter Solstice, most people will choose mutton fillings.

The reason is that mutton is warm in nature, and eating it during the winter solstice can warm yang, help the body dispel cold, and warm and nourish the internal organs.

Indeed, in the winter, you should eat more warm foods, such as leeks, green onions, beef and mutton and other animal foods, which can help warm the yang and keep warm, and are beneficial to health.

However, if you have a "heat" condition, you should not overeat warm foods.

2. Tang Yuan Regarding the food on the Winter Solstice, the customs of the north and the south are different. The north usually eats wontons and dumplings, while the south has the habit of eating glutinous rice balls.

Eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice is especially popular in Jiangnan.

There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older".

Tangyuan is also called glutinous rice balls, and eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings".

According to records from the Qing Dynasty, people in Jiangnan used glutinous rice flour to make dough, and stuffed it with meat, apples, bean paste, shredded radish, etc.

The Winter Solstice group can be used to worship ancestors, and can also be used to exchange gifts with relatives and friends.

Those who are more particular should eat "Four Styles of Rice Balls".

First boil or steam mung beans, red beans, candied winter melon, and taro separately, peel them, add sugar, sesame, cooked lard and other seasonings to make four kinds of sweet fillings, and wrap the glutinous rice balls with four different fillings.

Heart, mark it.

Boil four kinds of glutinous rice balls in water with sugar.

Each bowl contains one glutinous rice ball with different fillings.

3. Egg Noodles "If you eat Winter Solstice noodles, you will grow taller every day."

Eating Winter Solstice noodles is a custom during the Winter Solstice in northern Anhui.

"Winter Solstice Noodles", commonly known as "Dried Noodles", is one of the types of noodles and is traditionally handmade by local people.

The hand-made noodles are very particular in their production. They are made from high-quality wheat, and are supplemented with refined salt, eggs and other natural raw materials. They go through 8 processes including mixing, rising, plate, hanging and pulling, and take half a day to finally take shape.

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 time to count the nine cold days, and count to nine every nine days.

In the harsh winter when dripping water turns into ice, eating a bowl of hot egg noodles is a perfect way to celebrate the winter solstice.