冬至吃湯圓

Winter Solstice is one of the 24 solar terms in China. The date of the winter solstice will fall on around December 22 each year. The sun appears directly overhead on the Tropic of Capricorn, ( or Southern tropic) on this day. so it is t the shortest day, longest night for the northern hemisphere. In Taiwan there is the custom of eating rice balls served in soup on Winter Solstice, which means getting one year older.
冬至是中國的24節氣之一，大約在每年的12月22日左右。
因為太陽直射南回歸線，所以這天北半球日最短夜最長。台灣在這天有吃湯圓的習俗，
吃了湯圓表示又長了一歲！