Culture Insider: 9 things you may not know about Winter Solstice

Updated: 2014-12-22 07:30

(Chinaculture.org)

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.

Red-bean and glutinous rice porridge. [file photo]