What does Yancheng eat from winter solstice?

Eat jiaozi on the solstice of winter in Yancheng.

Yancheng, called Du Yan in ancient times, is also called Piaocheng, Deng Ying and Baihe. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province and a central city in the Yangtze River Delta. It is located in the east coast of China, the east of Jiangsu Province, the Yellow Sea in the east, Nantong in the south, Yangzhou and Taizhou in the southwest, Huai 'an in the northwest and Lianyungang in the north. The whole city is a plain landform, which is the transition from north subtropical zone to warm temperate zone.

Yancheng was built as Du Yan County in the sixth year of Emperor Gaudi in the Western Han Dynasty (20 1 year ago), and was renamed as Yancheng County in the ninth year of Jin 'an Yixi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (4 13 years ago). Yancheng has the only world natural heritage in Jiangsu, China Yellow Sea (Bohai Sea) migratory bird habitat, with convenient land, sea and air transportation, and basically formed a five-in-one three-dimensional transportation network of expressway, railway, aviation, sea transportation and inland river shipping.

Climatic characteristics

Yancheng city is located in the transition zone from north subtropical zone to warm temperate zone, generally bounded by the main irrigation canal in northern Jiangsu. The south of the canal belongs to the tropical climate of North Asia, and the north of the canal belongs to the south warm temperate zone, which has transitional characteristics. The climate is greatly influenced by the ocean. Compared with western Jiangsu at the same latitude, the temperature in spring is low and rises late, and the temperature in autumn drops slowly and is higher than that in spring, and the annual precipitation is obviously higher than that in western Jiangsu. The monsoon climate is obvious.

In winter, influenced by the cold air mass in Eurasia, northerly winds prevail and there are many cold weather; In summer, due to the influence of Pacific subtropical high, southerly winds and high temperature weather prevail. The air is warm and humid and there is plenty of rain. Yancheng has 12 large rivers over 50 kilometers, with many lakes, swings and ponds. Rivers are mainly the Huaihe River system.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yancheng