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Food for the Winter Solstice
Updated: 2011-01-04 18:33
(Eastday.com)
In other places, people also eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour. The Winter Solstice rice dumplings can be used as sacrifices to ancestors, or gifts for friends and relatives.
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