Winter solstice custom in the north?

The customs of the northern winter solstice festival include offering sacrifices, eating jiaozi, keeping out the cold in September, eating barbecue and ginger rice, making rice wine and eating glutinous rice balls.

1, Sacrifice: Winter Solstice Festival is also called Winter Festival and Winter Festival. It is one of the 24 solar terms and a traditional festival in China. There is a saying that the solstice in winter is as big as a year. The imperial court and the people have always attached great importance to it, and there have been sacrificial activities since the Zhou Dynasty.

2. Eat jiaozi: Every year from the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year in China, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for the rich and the poor. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." This custom was left in memory of Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", who gave up medicine from the winter solstice.

3. Nine years of cold and summer: After entering the ninth year, some literati engaged in so-called cold and summer activities, choosing a "nine days" for nine people to drink (the homonym of "wine" and "nine"), using nine bowls on the table, and the people who finished the table used "nine flowers" to mean "nine years of cold and summer".

4. Eat barbecue and ginger rice: Some places in the south want to eat barbecue on the solstice in winter. On the solstice of winter, barbecue becomes an indispensable delicacy on the table, which means adding vegetables to add years.

5. Brewing rice wine: Traditional Gusu people will drink winter wine on the night of winter solstice, and the winter wine will be brewed with glutinous rice or yellow rice and osmanthus.

6. Eat dumplings: "Tangyuan" is a necessary food from the winter solstice, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating dumplings from the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice yen".