Why do you eat pumpkins on the solstice in winter?

The solstice of winter announced the real arrival of winter. Eating pumpkins on the solstice in winter, every household is busy making "warm" pumpkin Baba, which has become a folk custom in Hefei for many years. Pumpkin is the main vegetable in summer and autumn. Because of its storage resistance, it can still be eaten in winter. On the solstice of winter, the sun shines directly on the tropic of Capricorn. Since then, the days have become longer and the nights have become shorter. Eating pumpkins on the solstice in winter may have some meanings. Pumpkin is thick, sweet and nutritious, and has become a variety of delicious dishes on hundreds of tables, such as fried shredded melon with red pepper, roast beef with pumpkin, steamed pumpkin soup with powder, and can also be used as soup and stuffing, all of which are ruddy and fragrant. If you choose to cut the old pumpkin into pieces and steam it, Huang Chengcheng's "noodle meat" can be comparable to "plain ham"! The medicinal value of pumpkin has long been "decrypted". Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty said that pumpkin is sweet and warm in nature, and has the functions of nourishing the middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and killing insects. Pumpkin juice can be used externally to treat burns and scalds, and can be used orally to drive ascaris. Modern medical research shows that pumpkin can promote insulin secretion in the body and effectively reduce blood sugar, which is a healthy food for diabetics.