Many places eat jiaozi in early winter. Is this different from the custom of eating jiaozi from winter solstice?

From the perspective of beginning of winter and the winter solstice, there are differences between these two festivals. The beginning of winter is to reward people for a year's hard work, while the winter solstice is due to festivals and traditional customs.

Beginning of winter and the winter solstice.

There is a fundamental difference between beginning of winter and the winter solstice, that is, they have different dates on the calendar. The beginning of winter is in November, and the winter of solstice is in December. Beginning of winter means that winter comes and autumn ends. However, the solstice in winter shows the problem of climate, which generally means that there may be very cold weather at this time, rather than the arrival of winter. Cold weather refers to the weather that people can't accept, such as the first frost and blizzard.

2. The beginning of the custom of eating jiaozi in winter.

In ancient times, beginning of winter was a very important day. In any case, the whole country will eat jiaozi for the simple reason that in ancient times, food was the most important thing for the people. In order to comfort hard-working people, they will eat a bowl of hot jiaozi to entertain their families or themselves on this day. Besides these, there will be some other customs. Besides, customs vary from place to place, so you don't have to eat jiaozi.

3. The custom of eating jiaozi from winter to Sunday.

I don't know if you have heard the old man at home say that jiaozi must eat on the solstice in winter, so it is very necessary to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, but the significance of eating jiaozi on this day is different from that of beginning of winter. It belongs to let people resist the cold winter and hope that spring will come early, which indicates that people can spend a very difficult winter comfortably and warmly.

In a word, the meaning of beginning of winter eating jiaozi and jiaozi from winter solstice is completely different. Anyway, you have to eat jiaozi.