24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice
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24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice

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The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, people worshipped the gods on the first day of the Winter Solstice, which also was the first day of the new year. Eating tangyuan In places such as Shanghai, people eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour, to celebrate Winter Solstice. Today, though fewer families eat homemade cakes, people there still buy rice cakes for the Winter Solstice Festival. Eating red-bean and glutinous rice In some regions south of the Yangtze River on the first day of Winter Solstice, the whole family gets together to have a meal made of red bean and glutinous rice to drive away ghosts and other evil things.

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24 Solar Terms: 6 things about Major Snow
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