1, jiaozi

It is said that jiaozi originated from the ancient "jiaozi" and was invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage. After more than a thousand years' development, it has gradually become a special food that northerners often eat. The common jiaozi is salty, and the main fillings are pork, mushrooms, three delicacies, leek and pork. Jiaozi can be steamed or boiled. We call steamed jiaozi "steamed dumplings" and boiled "dumplings". There is a saying in the north that "Winter Solstice jiaozi Summer Solstice Noodles", which shows their enthusiasm for eating jiaozi during the winter solstice.

2, rice cakes

Eating rice cakes from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China until now, people in Hangzhou like to eat rice cakes on the winter solstice. During the winter solstice, we cook three rice cakes with different flavors. In the morning, we eat rice cakes mixed with sesame powder and sugar. At noon, we have fried rice cakes with pickled vegetables, winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. For dinner, we have rice cakes with mustard seeds, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup. Eating rice cakes on the winter solstice is a good luck to get older.

3. Wonton

There has been a saying in Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". Wonton is a kind of delicious food with clear water and flour as the skin, and then wrapped with some stuffing, which is a bit like jiaozi, but different. Wonton is the name of Beijingers, Cantonese calls it Wonton, Sichuan calls it Wonton, and Anhui calls it Burden. The earliest record of wonton can be traced back to Dialect written by Yang Xiong in the Western Han Dynasty, so wonton is also a traditional food.

4. Tangyuan

Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is a traditional custom in some areas in the south of the Yangtze River, which is also called dumplings, and eating dumplings on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings". Tangyuan stuffing is thin, glutinous but not sticky; White and crystal clear, sweet and delicious; Nowadays, not only the winter solstice, but also dumplings can be eaten all year round.

5. Mutton soup

It is also very good to drink mutton soup on the winter solstice, and it has always been a habit in Shandong, China. The winter solstice is the coldest time of the year, when the cold in the human body increases and the cold resistance of the body weakens. Drinking some mutton soup in time can nourish the body and improve the cold resistance of the human body. It can alleviate physical weakness in winter and enhance the disease resistance of the human body in winter.

6. Dog meat

The custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice is said to have started from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, which made him feel particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, he has formed the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice among the people, in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

7. Roasted meat

On the winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat winter solstice meat. Among them, roasted meat is an indispensable traditional food on the table of Guangdong people's winter solstice. The whole family prepares some bacon and sausage to eat while offering sacrifices to their ancestors, so as to pray for lucky strike in the coming year.

8. Sweet Pills

There is a saying in the spring custom that "you don't go home for the winter festival and have no ancestors", so those who go out will go home for the holidays as much as possible. In the morning of the winter festival, sweet pill soup should be cooked to honor the ancestors, and then the family will have sweet pill soup for breakfast. Some people still leave a few rice pills after dinner and stick them on the door, which is called "respecting the door god". People in Quanzhou eat pills, calling Yuanxiao Pills "head pills (round)" and Winter Festival "tail pills (round)", so that the head and tail are round, which means that the whole family is happy all year round.

9. Nine-layer cake

Taiwan Province also preserves the tradition of worshipping ancestors with nine-layer cakes on the winter solstice. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals symbolizing good luck and good luck, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to worship ancestors to show that they do not forget their ancestors.

It is also common in Taiwan Province to "make up for winter" in the winter festival. On the day before the Winter Festival, after dinner, families rub circles in the hall. In ancient times, it is forbidden to say ominous words when rubbing circles. After rubbing round dumplings, you should make up for winter. Rice cakes are one of the supplements. Sweet rice cakes should be added with dried longan meat. Salted rice cakes include mutton cakes and red rice cakes. There are also eight treasures stewed with male muscovy ducks, cocks and soft-shelled turtles.

10, Baba

According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the winter solstice will be a feast, and there are many people involved, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba on the winter solstice, and whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, Ciba should be made. Therefore, in my hometown, Ciba is called "Da Zi", and now the common glutinous rice balls are called "Xiao Zi" with some disdain.

1 1, red bean glutinous rice

People born and raised in Jiaxing mostly choose to eat longan and burn eggs for the winter solstice night. "Peel the bought longan, then boil it in water, boil the juice of longan, then add the eggs, and add sugar according to their own taste ..." An old man in Jiaxing said: "In the past, people's living conditions were not good. Eating a bowl of hot longan and burn eggs on the winter solstice night, I felt that it was not cold all winter."

12, salted dumplings

Yangjiang people celebrate the winter solstice, and they will make salty dumplings, a local traditional food, which means "family reunion, happiness". Yangjiang people call dumplings "dumplings", which is different from ordinary dumplings. The stuffing is not wrapped in dumplings, but the dumplings are cut into powder, boiled in the soup, and cooked together after smelling the fragrance.

13, ginger duck

The most distinctive winter solstice food is ginger duck in Fujian and Taiwan. On this day, local people will stew a pot of nourishing duck soup with muscovy duck with ginger juice, which can not only drive away the cold and strengthen the body, but also increase the festive atmosphere for good luck.

14, meat tofu

There is a saying in Quzhou that the winter solstice is' eat, eat all night, have no food, freeze all night', and Quzhou's diet during the winter solstice is also very particular. Every winter solstice, every family must have meat and tofu in their dishes, and at the same time, every family must fry some peanuts, corn, soybeans, etc. for the use of leisure food at night on the winter solstice.

15, longan boiled eggs

People born and raised in Jiaxing mostly choose to eat longan and burn eggs for the winter solstice night. "Peel the bought longan, then boil it in water, boil the juice of longan, then add eggs and add sugar according to your own taste ..."

16, buckwheat noodles

Every winter solstice in Zhejiang and other places, the whole family, men, women and children, should gather together, and the married daughter should also rush back to her husband's family. Every household should make buckwheat noodles to eat. According to custom, eating buckwheat on the winter solstice can remove pig hair and chicken feathers from the stomach.

17, Dongjie Pill

In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "Winter Festival Pills, as soon as you eat, celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding years", which means that although the New Year has not passed, everyone has added one year. Children are most eager to eat this bowl of sweet pills, and often wake up at night to ask the dawn? However, the sky seems to be joking with the children, and it is always not bright. Therefore, there is a nursery rhyme of "winter festival night, long time, and the sweet pill is not boiled."

18, pinch frozen ears

Eating "frozen ears" is a common name for Henan people to eat jiaozi during the winter solstice. Why is there such a food custom? Every winter solstice, people imitate and eat, which is why the custom of "pinching ears" is formed. Later, people called it "jiaozi", and some called it "flat food" and "instant noodle dumplings". It was also said that people would not freeze in jiaozi after eating the winter solstice.

19, winter brewing

Eat winter wine on the winter solstice. This wine is brewed only once a year before the winter solstice. It tastes sweet and fragrant. When pouring wine into a cup, the aroma gradually rises and then spreads, and finally the room is full of warm and sweet aroma, which makes people get drunk before drinking. However, the winter wine is very weak, and all ages, women and children can drink two cups. Suzhou Winter Brewing in the old days was a kind of rice wine, which was brewed together with osmanthus. It was sweet in taste, golden in color, vaguely fragrant with osmanthus, and very refreshing and pleasant.

20, edge furnace

In Shunde, there is also a folk custom of "sitting around the edge furnace to spend the winter solstice", which means that the whole group is round, warm and have a good winter, and the whole family is safe, healthy and welcoming the Spring Festival. The edge-beating furnace is actually a retort furnace, which is a famous dish of Han nationality with good color and flavor and belongs to Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese hotpot. The main ingredients are sashimi, squid slices and raw shrimp slices. The main cooking technique is boiling. "Edge furnace" is different from the general so-called "hot pot". Hot pot is to sit down and eat, while "edge furnace" is to stand and eat; Hot pot is made of metal utensils, with charcoal burning in the middle, and the "edge-banding furnace" is made of tile. The chopsticks of the "edge-banding furnace" are also made of bamboo, and they are extremely long, about twice as long as ordinary chopsticks, which is convenient for standing and rinsing.