What do southerners eat during the winter solstice?

　　There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older". Eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice is especially popular in Jiangnan. Glutinous rice balls are also called "glutinous rice balls", and eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings". “"Winter Solstice Group" can be used to worship ancestors, and can also be used to exchange gifts with relatives and friends. In the old days, Shanghainese were most particular about eating glutinous rice balls. They tasted newly brewed sweet liquor, flower cakes and glutinous rice balls at the family feast, and then used meat pieces on the plate to worship their ancestors. In some places in the south, there is a custom of the whole family gathering together to eat red beans and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. According to legend, the Gonggong clan had an untalented man who committed many evil deeds and died on the winter solstice. After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off plague ghosts and prevent disasters and diseases.