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Winter Sostice Tomorrow is winter sostice.This year it falls on Dec. 22nd. Winter solstice is a very important solar term in Chinese Lunar calendar. Being a traditional holiday as well, it is still now celebrated in many regions. Ancient china did pay great attention to this holiday, regarding it as a big event. There was the saying that "Winter solstice holiday is greater than the spring festival". Nowadays, many regions still celebrate it as a big holiday. Northerners may have dumplings and raviolis that day while southerners may have dumplings made by rice and long noodles. Some places even have the tradition to offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth. In my hometown,people have dumplings this day. An chinese fairy tale says that if we don't have dumpling this day,our ears will be removed from our heads by coldness.Thought we dont' believe it, we still keep this custom.Maybe because dumplings are delicious. Usuallly they are served with vingar, garlic, ginger and fried hot pepper powder. Our first greeting on this day is "Have you had dumplings today?"

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Winter Solstice

Tomorrow is winter solstice.This year it falls on Dec. 22nd. Winter solstice is a very important solar term holiday (?) in the Chinese Lunar calendar. 

Being a traditional holiday as well, it is still now celebrated in many regions. 

Ancient china did paid great attention to this holiday, and regarded it as a big event. There was a saying, that "Winter solstice holiday is greater than the spring festival". Nowadays, many regions still celebrate it as a big holiday. Northerners may have dumplings and raviolis that day while southerners may have dumplings made of by rice and long noodles. Some places even have the tradition to offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth. 

(you would only add  "did" to emphasize that it was so,  contrary to what the reader expected. like  确实／確實)
ravioli is a italian dish. 水餃 和 鍋貼？ boiled dumplings and pot stickers...

In my hometown, people eat dumplings on this day. A chinese fairy tale says that if we don't have dumplings this day, our ears will freeze off (或freeze and fall off). Thought (better: Although) we don't believe this, we still keep this custom.   Maybe because dumplings are (so) delicious. Usuallly they are served with vinegar, garlic, ginger and fried hot pepper powder*. Our first greeting on this day is (usually)  "Have you had dumplings today?" 

We usually use "Although" when starting a sentence: "Although I don't like it, I still eat it". Whereas "though" is used more in the middle of a sentence: "I ate it, though I really didn't want to eat any".


fried hot pepper powder.- 辣油? i'm not sure how to say this in english, but it's "oil with hot peppers"... powder is 粉， do you really use powder?
 

 

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Winter Sostice

Tomorrow is winter sostice.This year it falls on Dec. 22nd. Winter solstice is a very important solar term in Chinese Lunar calendar.

Being a traditional holiday as well, it is still now celebrated in many regions.

Ancient china did pay great attention to this holiday, regarding it as a big event. There was the saying that "Winter solstice holiday is greater than the spring festival". Nowadays, many regions still celebrate it as a big holiday. Northerners may have dumplings and raviolis that day while southerners may have dumplings made by rice and long noodles. Some places even have the tradition to offer sacrifices to the heaven and earth.

(you would only add  "did" to emphasize that it was so,  contrary to what the reader expected. like  确实／確實)

In my hometown,people have dumplings this day. An chinese fairy tale says that if we don't have dumpling this day,our ears will be removed from our heads by coldness.Thought we dont' believe it, we still keep this custom.Maybe because dumplings are delicious. Usuallly they are served with vinegar, garlic, ginger and fried hot pepper powder. Our first greeting on this day is "Have you had dumplings today?"

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