1. Mutton soup is very popular in Sichuan in the winter of solstice. Jiaozi may not eat in winter in Sichuan, but mutton soup is essential. Chengdu has been fond of food since ancient times, and the winter solstice is the season of autumn harvest and winter storage. As long as citizens have a little leisure, they will make up for it In old Chengdu, mutton soup is mostly eaten by the poor and can only be sold in winter. Formed the atmosphere of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is a unique landscape of old Chengdu from winter to the sun.
Secondly, jiaozi, a kind of mutton powder soup, will be eaten on the solstice of winter in Ningxia. The local people have a strange name for mutton powder soup-"brain". The winter solstice is also called Ghost Festival locally. After jiaozi made the mutton powder soup dumpling, he served it first and sent a bowl to his neighbor. Jiaozi, a mutton powder soup, is a common food for local people. On the contrary, foreigners have never eaten this spicy jiaozi, which is also a special snack in Ningxia.
Third, Shandong winter solstice folk customs are rich in content and diverse in forms. On the occasion of the winter solstice festival, a considerable number of Shandong people will eat jiaozi or wonton, and some people will drink. It is said that drinking is to warm the body, and eating jiaozi is afraid of freezing the ears, because "jiaozi" and "rubber ears" are homophonic. In some areas of Shandong, it is common for students to worship their teachers and the younger generation to worship their elders, and farmers have the custom of worshipping their ancestors.
People in the south of China are used to eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter. There is a saying that "if you eat the winter festival, you will be one year older". Before winter solstice, southerners often make dough with glutinous rice flour, wrap it with fillings such as lean meat, apples, bean paste and shredded radish, and then wrap it in jiaozi. For Jiangnan people, "Tangyuan" is a necessary food from winter to Sunday. Because "round" means "reunion" and "perfection", eating glutinous rice balls in winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group", which is a blessing for family reunion in the coming year.