As on the Lantern Festival, people eat rice balls on the Winter Solstice Festival in Taiwan. In the early days, on the eve of the Winter Solstice Festival, the whole family would gather around to enjoy making the rice balls together. Children often play the games of the "Making Hens and Dogs" (作雞母狗仔) to make the rice balls in the shapes of the dogs, hens or pigs to symbolize growing up.