What are the traditional customs of the winter solstice solar terms?

1. According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, the folk tradition has the custom of offering sacrifices to the sky in the suburbs on the winter solstice. At that time, the first month of the Zhou calendar was 1 1 month of the Xia calendar, so our modern lunar November was equal to the first month of the Zhou Dynasty, so Hedong at that time was the same thing as New Year's greetings. It was not until the Xia calendar was adopted in the Han Dynasty that the winter solstice was separated from the New Year's greetings in the first month. After the separation of He Dong and Bai Nian, there was a saying of "Winter Festival" on the solstice of winter, and the custom of Winter Festival has continued to this day.

2. Every winter solstice, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday food, no matter whether the family is rich or poor. There is a proverb: "On October 1st (October 1st here refers to another October, that is, November), the solstice of winter comes, and everyone eats jiaozi." In the south, there is a saying that you need to live one more year to eat jiaozi.