What is the custom of winter in the north of solstice?

My hometown is in the northeast. Every winter solstice, our family will sit around the table and eat jiaozi, which is also the custom of Northeast people in winter solstice.

The custom of northern winter solstice: eating jiaozi.

Personally, it is more ceremonial to celebrate the winter solstice in the north. After winter solstice comes, most families in the north will choose to eat jiaozi. No matter the poor or the rich, everyone has heard the story of doctor Zhang Zhongjing making a fascinating ear soup to dispel the cold. Actually, it's true. Later, people will eat a bowl of jiaozi on the solstice in winter to express their gratitude to the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing.

In addition, a few families in the north will choose to eat wonton, which means regulating yin and yang. Some people think that the cloudy days in winter are extremely heavy, so it is not unreasonable to use wonton to regulate the growth of Yang between heaven and earth. Actually, eating wonton is suitable for legend. During the Han dynasty, the northern Xiongnu was divided into two tribes, one called Xiongnu and the other called Tun. These two tribes have brought great trouble to people's lives, so people hate it, so they named it wonton and ate it.

The origin of winter solstice festival

Due to the gap between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, the winter solstice season in China is generally around12,21~ 23 every year, and the night of winter solstice is very long. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, twenty-four solar terms were used to guide the agricultural season, and the solar terms were mainly divided by the average time method, so that the date between the winter solstice and the next winter solstice was called Zhongqi, and then it was called Zhongqi.