What traditional food does Suzhou eat on the solstice in winter?

During the winter solstice, Suzhou's traditional foods include fermented grains, wonton, pot-stewed vegetables, jiaozi in winter solstice and mutton. There is another saying in Suzhou: the solstice in winter is as big as a year, so you should eat and eat all night; There was no food and it froze all night. This shows the importance of winter solstice to Suzhou.

The winter solstice is an important solar term in the China lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is the earliest of the 24 solar terms, which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period. On the solstice of winter, direct sunlight reaches the southernmost part of the year, and the northern hemisphere gets 50% less sunlight than the southern hemisphere, and the daytime in the northern hemisphere reaches the shortest. Winter solstice is regarded as a big holiday in winter. There is a folk saying that winter solstice is as big as a year, so the ancients called it "sub-year" or "off-year". Most northerners have the custom of eating jiaozi from winter solstice, while most southerners have the custom of eating sweets.