Winter Solstice, also known as ‘Winter Festival’ and ‘He Dong’, is one of the twenty-four Chinese solar terms and one of the eight celestial solar terms, opposite to the summer solstice.
In northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. As the saying goes, ‘When the winter solstice arrives, eat dumplings.’ And the south is to eat dumplings, of course, there are exceptions, such as in Tengzhou, Shandong and other places in the winter solstice is customarily called the number of nine, popular over the number of nine the day of the custom of drinking mutton soup, the meaning of driving away the cold.
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