What do you eat on the solstice in northern winter?

The winter solstice is a very important solar term, and it is also a traditional festival in China's lunar calendar. Up to now, there are still many places where the winter solstice festival is held. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival". As early as more than 2,500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China had determined the winter solstice by observing the sun with the earth, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms. The time is on February 22nd or 23rd of Gregorian calendar 10 every year.

After thousands of years of development, the winter solstice has formed a unique seasonal food culture, and different places have different winter solstice food customs.

In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter. As the saying goes, "When winter solstice comes, eat jiaozi." In the south, we eat jiaozi, but there are exceptions. For example, Tengzhou, Dongping, Wenshang, Qufu, Zoucheng and other places in Shandong, the custom of winter solstice is called Jiujiu, and the custom of drinking mutton soup on the same day is popular, which means driving away the cold.

Every year, during the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for both the rich and the poor. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi."

There are also some places to eat noodles on the solstice in winter. As the saying goes, "Eating noodles on the solstice in winter will make the day longer", which means that the days will gradually become longer from the solstice in winter.

The winter solstice is the year with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. After the solstice in winter, the days will get longer day by day. The ancients said this about the winter solstice: As soon as the cathode arrived, the yang began to grow, the sun went south, the day was short and the shadow was long, so it was called "the winter solstice". After the solstice of winter, the climate in all places has entered the coldest stage, which is often called "counting nine". There is a folk proverb in China, "It's cold on March 9th, and it's hot in dog days".