Dongzhi Festival: China’s Winter Solstice Explained
In December 2024, a week before Winter Solstice, I walked into a Yonghui supermarket near Guomao in Beijing looking for dumpling wrappers. Not in the flour aisle. Not in the frozen bags either. A clerk in a green apron pointed me two aisles over, past the chili sauces, to a refrigerated case stacked with round…