Today, there was a traffic jam on the way to work as always.
In small counties that do not enter the stream, traffic jams are also the norm.
In the weather of more than ten degrees below zero, pedestrians are in a hurry, and traffic accidents are inevitable.
Last night, I encountered a van on the way to work overtime and had close contact with an SUV, and debris was scattered on the ground.
On the way this morning, I saw a middle-aged woman riding an electric car lying in the middle of the road, next to a turning SUV.
I think of a mother who sent her child to school on the way to send her baby this morning.
Under the windshield of the electric car, a little daughter is still dozing off on her mother's lap, and her brother who is in elementary school is sitting in the back seat, and her mother is also in a hurry.
One can imagine the daily routine of this mother every morning.
Who doesn't know safety first, but there is too much helplessness.
The school rules can't be early, and there is nowhere to wait for this cold day when you arrive early.
I turned on the radio while waiting in a traffic jam and heard a message.
Someone among the experts finally made a good suggestion:
The winter solstice is a day off for young people to eat dumplings.
I'm not a young man anymore, but I'm in favor of it with both hands.
Middle-aged people need to take a day off.
It has always been said among the people that the winter solstice is as big as the year.
The ancients celebrated the winter solstice and had a seven-day holiday.
In the Han Dynasty, the winter solstice not only had to sacrifice to the sky and take a holiday, but also to prepare a celebration ceremony.
The court stopped government affairs and concentrated on "He Dong".
Since the Tang Dynasty, the winter solstice has become a "legal holiday", and the country has a seven-day holiday.
And the common people also have to buy new clothes, prepare food, and worship their ancestors, and the excitement is like the New Year.
On the day of the winter solstice, after worshipping the ancestors, there is a custom of holding a family banquet, and the whole family congratulates the winter day is about to pass, and prays for good weather in the coming year.
Such an important meal, of course, is particularly exquisite.
China has a vast land and abundant resources, with regional characteristics in the east, west, north and south.
Dumplings. 
During the New Year's holidays, northerners are always inseparable from dumplings.
It is said that Zhang Zhongjing, the medical saint of that year, saw the people who were frozen and couldn't bear it, so he used mutton, cold-warding herbs and dough to wrap it like an ear to make "cold-warding Jiao'er soup", and gradually formed the custom of eating dumplings to ward off the cold on the winter solstice, and there is still a folk proverb
The winter solstice does not serve dumpling bowls, and no one cares if you freeze your ears."
Glutinous rice balls. 
In the southern region, they eat more glutinous rice balls, which symbolize reunion and consummation, and entrust the vision of life in the coming year.
The dumplings are also like dumplings, and they come with a variety of fillings.
Although I am a native of the north, I don't love dumplings and dumplings.
Winter Solstice Regiment. 
This is the winter solstice special food in the south of the Yangtze River, there are sweet bean paste filling, there are also salty radish shredded bamboo shoots dried pork filling, steamed in the pot, soft and glutinous, fresh and fragrant.
Waxy rice.
This should be the home-style taste of Cantonese people.
The ingredients are abundant, including shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimps, and sausages.
In season, glutinous rice carries hunger.
Eat a bowl and warm your whole body.
Lamb broth. 
Sichuan, Guizhou and other places have the custom of drinking mutton soup, which can not only resist the wind and cold, but also nourish the body.
On the winter solstice, the bitter cold of Sanjiu began.
While we are thinking about how to make this winter solstice day as atmospheric as the New Year, there are countless people who are busy running around for a living.
The winter solstice is a day off, so that everyone can have a moment of respite in this non-stop era, can have time to eat a hot meal, can have a hot meal with the family, the most heart-warming is to warm the stomach.