1, red bean and glutinous rice. In Haining, it is a custom for the whole family to eat red bean glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. After eating glutinous rice, the whole body will get hot, which will nourish and keep out the cold. Very suitable for eating in winter. If you can use black glutinous rice, that's the best.

2. Tangyuan. On the winter solstice, Haining will choose to eat jiaozi, which means "reunion". Glutinous rice flour ground by oneself is better. The fillings are fruits, meat, vegetables and so on. And it can be packaged into jiaozi on the winter solstice, which can be distributed not only to family members, but also to relatives and friends to express their best wishes. This way of eating is very common in the south, and there is a folk saying that "eating jiaozi is one year older". Different customs.

3. jiaozi. Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is the custom of most people in Haining. Every family that has time will pack it. Those who work in factories will provide jiaozi in the canteen, and office workers generally choose to order takeout. If you don't eat jiaozi on the winter solstice, your ears will be gone. Jiaozi is an essential holiday food for all cities in the north, rich or poor. During the winter solstice, every household can eat jiaozi, but it can be vegetarian, like leek stuffing, which means "a hundred treasures". Over time, a fixed custom has been formed and has continued. It is said that jiaozi is eaten on the winter solstice to express people's gratitude for Zhang Zhongjing's "Quhan Joule Decoction".