Today's winter solstice, the beginning of the day after the winter solstice, from this day onwards, the days are getting longer day by day.
Chinese festivals are always inseparable from eating. Eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and when it comes to the winter solstice, the south round and the north dumplings have their own customs.
Speaking of dumplings, I suddenly felt that this is the most popular and representative food in the north, and it seems that it can be eaten on any occasion. Eat it on the winter solstice, eat it for the New Year, eat it at the beginning of winter, and eat ...... on New Year's DayEat it when you think about it. It seems that there is a grand event when it comes to eating, and it is the matter of dumplings. Dumplings are the leader of northern food, and it is always good to eat them anytime, anywhere.
In the south, there is no kind of food that can cover the world, rice cakes, rice balls, Qingtuan, glutinous rice cakes, meatballs (lion's head), wontons (noodles) ......The food eaten by southerners is different in different regions and at different times, and there are quite big differences between the eastern, central, and western regions, and there is a clear distinction between Jiangnan and Lingnan. There is no single food that represents the South.
The relative homogeneity of the North and the absolute diversity of the South are the biggest differences between the North and the South.
No matter how different the eating habits of the north and the south are, the theme of each festival - reunion, is the same.