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24 Solar Terms: 9 things you may not know about Winter Solstice

(Chinaculture.org) Updated: 2016-12-21

24 Solar Terms: 9 things you may not know about Winter Solstice

Red-bean and glutinous rice. [Photo/Weibo]

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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