How much do you know about the interesting customs of various places during the winter solstice?

　　How much do you know about the customs and habits of the Winter Solstice?

　　The winter solstice is a very important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

　　This year's Winter Solstice falls on December 22nd. "Winter Solstice brings spring and spring comes again." I like this sentence very much. I feel that after the Winter Solstice, we can see the hope of spring. There are many proverbs and customs about the Winter Solstice, and they are different in the north and south. Let's take a look.

　　•Guangdong Winter Solstice Customs

　　Guangdong flow of people There is a popular saying: "Winter Solstice is the New Year's Day", and the Winter Solstice is regarded as grand as the Chinese New Year. People generally worship their ancestors during the winter solstice and hang paper in front of their tombs, which is commonly known as "hanging winter". In some places, guests are given a winter solstice banquet in which fish, meat, bacon, clams and vegetables are boiled together, and everyone eats around the pot, which is called "circling the stove". On this day, in addition to having reunion dinner and glutinous rice balls.

　　•Ningbo Winter Solstice Customs

　　“After eating Tang Guo, I am one year older. ”, Ningbo has "Worship the Winter Solstice". According to the custom of old Ningbo, make winter solstice soup. On the morning of the winter solstice, one also eats a bowl of sweet sweet potato soup, which means that all previous bad luck can be "turned over". Eat a few rice dumplings and glutinous rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice on this day, which symbolizes reunion and perfection. Old Ningbo people also make a roasted vegetable rice cake to express their good wishes of "being prosperous every year".

　　•Changsha Winter Solstice Customs

　　Folks in Changsha take the winter solstice as the starting point and nine days as a time period. They wrote "Song of Nine Counts" which says:

　　“On the 929th day of the lunar month, don’t make a move when you meet (put your hands in your sleeves or pockets)； Three-nine-twenty-seven, an upside-down pen (icicle) hanging in front of the eaves; Four-nine-twenty-six, a pedestrian staying on the road (going home for the Spring Festival) ； May 945, the poor man dances in front of the steps (praising spring and sending the God of Wealth) ； Sixty-nine and fifty-four, withered branches sprouting tender thorns ； Seventy-nine and sixty-three, taking off clothes on the sidewalk ； In eighty-nine and seventy-two, Ma Guaizi (frog) Tanaka burped; in ninety-nine and eighty-one, he took off his raincoat and put on a bamboo hat. ”In Changsha, there was an old custom of gathering tribesmen to worship their ancestors at the ancestral hall. At that time, pigs and sheep were slaughtered and a "Winter Solstice Wine" was held. A sacrificial ceremony is held. Every family also eats glutinous rice, makes molded tofu, and smokes bacon.