Celebrating the beginning of a season

A tangyuan dish made using other ingredients such as red dates, longan and white fungus during a tangyuan making competition in Perak.

IN TODAY’S modern society, the Winter Solstice Festival remains an important celebration among some Chinese families.

Apart from the making and eating of tangyuan (glutinous rice balls), families still see the joy of coming together to savour hearty meals at the dinner table to mark the symbolism of tangyuan, which is reunion.