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ce to drive away ghosts and other evil other places, people also eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice Winter Solstice rice dumplings could be used as sacrifices to ancestors, or gifts for friends and Taiwan people even keep the custom of offering ninelayer cakes to their make cakes in the shape of chicken, duck, tortoise, pig, cow or sheep with glutinous rice flour and steam them on different layers of a animals all signify auspiciousness in Chinese of the same surname or family clan gather at their ancestral temples to worship their ancestors in age the sacrificial ceremony, there is always a grand ,冬至被當作一個較大節(jié)日,曾有“冬至大如年”的說法,而且有慶賀冬至的習俗?!稘h書》中說:“冬至陽氣起,君道長,故賀?!比藗冋J為:過了冬至,白晝一天比一天長,陽氣回升,是一個節(jié)氣循環(huán)的開始,也是一個吉日,應該慶賀?!稌x書》上記載有“魏晉冬至日受萬國及百僚稱賀……其儀亞于正旦?!闭f明古代對冬至日的重視?,F(xiàn)在,一些地方還把冬至作為一個節(jié)日來過。北方地區(qū)有冬至宰羊,吃餃子、吃餛飩的習俗,南方地區(qū)在這一天則有吃冬至米團、冬至長線面的習慣。各個地區(qū)在冬至這一天還有祭天祭祖的習俗。