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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(dāng)作一個(gè)較大節(jié)日,曾有“冬至大如年”的說法,而且有慶賀冬至的習(xí)俗。《漢書》中說:“冬至陽氣起,君道長(zhǎng),故賀?!比藗冋J(rèn)為:過了冬至,白晝一天比一天長(zhǎng),陽氣回升,是一個(gè)節(jié)氣循環(huán)的開始,也是一個(gè)吉日,應(yīng)該慶賀。《晉書》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(duì)冬至日的重視?,F(xiàn)在,一些地方還把冬至作為一個(gè)節(jié)日來過。北方地區(qū)有冬至宰羊,吃餃子、吃餛飩的習(xí)俗,南方地區(qū)在這一天則有吃冬至米團(tuán)、冬至長(zhǎng)線面的習(xí)慣。各個(gè)地區(qū)在冬至這一天還有祭天祭祖的習(xí)俗。