What is the custom of eating jiaozi on the solstice in winter?

Today is the winter solstice solar term and the shortest day of the year. After the solar term of winter solstice, the days become longer and longer, which means that spring is coming. The winter solstice, as a festival, has been recorded for more than 2500 years. The ancients thought it was a good day to become stronger from being sensible, which represented the beginning of the next cycle.

My hometown is in the north. In my hometown, the custom of winter solstice is actually the same as that of many northern areas, that is, you must eat jiaozi on this day. But it is different from the custom of eating jiaozi in winter in other northern cities. Jiaozi, which we eat here in winter solstice, is often jiaozi wrapped in pork and eggs, so when we choose to wrap jiaozi as the winter custom in winter solstice, we will have more choices in the taste of jiaozi, which should be considered as a very happy thing.

In fact, in retrospect, I was happier when I was a child. On the day of winter solstice, our family sat around the hot kang and began to pack jiaozi together. Although I was only six or seven years old at that time, I was able to participate in it, to catch jiaozi and to help adults do what they could. The whole family packed jiaozi together, which not only reflected a deep affection, but also felt the beauty and happiness of life in the process, although there were snow flowers floating outside the window.

Jiaozi is a traditional food in China, which is good for health, while jiaozi's cooking method is cooking, which can also be endowed with the meaning of a better life.

In a word, every place has different customs and habits from winter solstice, and they all have their own reasons. We should respect these traditional customs and habits and pass them on.