What food do you eat during the winter solstice in northeast China?

There is a custom of eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter. In our country, we usually eat jiaozi on festivals. There is a saying that jiaozi came from "the time of giving birth". New Year's Eve is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and beginning of winter is the turn of autumn and winter. When jiaozi is in love, he can't help eating.

There are different customs in winter solstice in the north and south of China, and through historical development, a unique seasonal food culture has been formed. Some places in southern China have the custom of eating and drinking in winter solstice. In most places in the north, there is a custom of eating jiaozi from winter solstice, and eating jiaozi has become the custom of most northerners in China from winter solstice.

The ancients celebrated the winter solstice, and the winter festival is one of the "eight festivals of the year". There are various winter solstice holiday foods, such as northern jiaozi, Chaoshan glutinous rice balls, Southeast rice cakes, Taizhou glutinous rice balls, Hefei pumpkin cakes, Ningbo sweet potato soup, Tengzhou mutton soup, Jiangnan rice, Suzhou wine making and so on.

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In the traditional customs of Ningbo, sweet potato soup is one of the must-eat foods in winter solstice. "Fan" and "Fan" are homophones. In Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the solstice in winter means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year.

Tang Guo is similar to jiaozi, much smaller and without stuffing. Tang Guo is also called jiaozi, which means "reunion" and "perfection". There is also a saying in old Ningbo that "you are one year older after eating soup".

People in Ningbo are used to adding wine to sweet potato soup. In Ningbo dialect, wine-making is also called "pulp board", and "pulp" is homophonic with "sheng" in Ningbo dialect, taking its lewdness of "high luck" and "high happiness"