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How to draw a handwritten newspaper for the Winter Solstice

The method of drawing the Winter Solstice handwritten newspaper is as follows:

1. First draw a bowl with dumplings inside, and draw three kittens next to it.

2. Draw dumplings, glutinous rice balls and snowmen in the blank spaces at the four corners.

3. Paint the dumpling soup in the bowl yellow, paint the kitten blue, orange and yellow. Draw horizontal lines on the outside of the bowl and the dumplings in the lower right corner, and draw blue on the blank spaces. Snowflakes, write the word "Winter Solstice" in the dumplings.

4. The edges of the dumplings are yellow, the snowman wears a red hat, and the lace is blue. In this way, the winter solstice handwritten newspaper is completed simply and beautifully.

Customs related to the Winter Solstice:

1. Southern region.

In the south, people will place portraits and memorial tablets of their ancestors at home on the day of the winter solstice, and then set up tables, incense burners, and tributes for worship. In some places, the objects of worship during the winter solstice are gods. During the Winter Solstice, people in many southern areas also eat some special snacks, such as rice cakes, winter solstice dumplings, glutinous rice balls, etc.

2. Northern region.

Many northerners like to eat dumplings during the winter solstice to get rid of the cold in winter. This custom originated from the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing who made "Cold-Expelling Jiaoer Soup" for the frozen people to treat frostbite on their ears. Therefore, there is also a popular saying among the people: "If you don't serve dumpling bowls during the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care."

Proverbs related to the Winter Solstice:

1. If you don’t cut the crops during the Winter Solstice, you will harvest one basket a night. The winter solstice determines fruits, the new year determines melons, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month determines cotton.

2. Winter is at the head, and a cow will be sold without its head; winter is at the waist, and a cat will freeze to death; winter is at the tail, and a ghost will freeze to death.

3. It snows on the winter solstice, and the rivers are full of water on the summer solstice.

4. During the winter solstice, it rains and the stars are unknown, and it snows heavily, making it difficult to walk.

5. During the winter solstice, one plow is worth one gold. Plow gold before the winter solstice, and plow iron after the winter solstice.

6. The northwest wind blows at the winter solstice and brings a dry spring in the coming year.

7. There will be no snow and strong winds in the winter solstice, but there will be lots of rain in June next year.

8. If there is snow in the winter solstice, there will be drought in the coming year, and if there is wind and cold in the winter solstice, it will be half winter.