During our Winter Solstice, we do not eat dumplings or drink mutton soup. We have heard a saying from adults since we were young: Eat Winter Solstice noodles and you will grow taller every day.

This means that once the winter solstice passes, the daylight hours will become longer and longer every day. Because the older generation works from sunrise to sunrise, longer days mean more things can be done and more harvests...