Beginning of Spring

Biting spring refers to the custom of eating spring plates, spring cakes, spring rolls and radishes every day in the early spring, and the word "biting" reveals the eating customs of many festivals.

Rain Water

Waiting for Tyrannosaurus Rex to sacrifice fish, or eat fish ... and canned meat to take back to your parents' house. ...

In ancient China, rainwater was divided into three stages: "One stage was that Rex sacrificed fish; Second, wait for Hongyan to come; Third, wait for the grass to sprout. " In this solar term, otters start fishing and put the fish on the shore like sacrifices before eating; Five days later, the geese began to fly back to the north from the south; In five days, in the "moist and silent" spring rain, the spirit of the sun rises everywhere in the vegetation and begins to sprout.

Another major custom of the Rain Festival is the son-in-law, who goes to send festivals to his parents-in-law. Holiday gifts are usually two rattan chairs with red ribbons one foot and two feet long. This is called "longevity", which means wishing parents-in-law a long life. Another typical gift is "canned meat": stew pig's trotters, snowflake beans and kelp in a casserole, then seal the jar with red paper and red rope and give it to parents-in-law. This is to express gratitude and respect to the parents-in-law who have worked so hard to raise their daughters. If it is wedding date, the newly-married son-in-law, her parents-in-law will also give her an umbrella in return, so that she can go out for a run, which can not only provide him with shelter from the wind and rain, but also mean wishing her a smooth and safe life journey.

In this solar term, we should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, have a light diet and replenish our body with water. Spinach and leek are good vegetables, so eat less greasy products. Dietotherapy is better with porridge, which can be made into lotus seed porridge, yam porridge, jujube porridge and so on. This season, we should eat less mutton and dog meat isothermal products.

Awakening of Insects

There is a folk custom of eating pears in shock.

In ethnic minority areas, Yao people in Jinxiu county, Guangxi eat "fried insects" on the day of fright. After the "fried insects" were done, they were placed in the hall, and the family sat around and ate, shouting "Eat fried insects, eat fried insects!" There will be a game in the fun place. Whoever eats fast and chews loudly will be congratulated for his contribution to eliminating pests. In fact, the "worm" is corn, which is symbolic.

In some areas of Shandong province, farmers burn pancakes in the yard on the day of fright, which means that smoke kills pests. In Shaanxi, some areas want to eat fried beans after being electrocuted. People soak soybeans in salt water and stir-fry them in a pot, making a crackling sound, which symbolizes the jumping sound of insects when they are tortured by heat in the pot. In Yanbei, Shanxi, farmers want to eat pears on the day of fright, which means to leave pests behind.

-It seems that food customs are really closely combined with the meaning of solar terms.

Spring Equinox

Because you want to stand upright eggs, you can eat them!

Kaipingcang Town used to have a custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox", with one city and four cities (plus Heshan as five cities). "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked spring vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup". There is a jingle that says, "Spring soup is dirty, and it washes the liver and intestines. The whole family is safe and healthy. " Since the spring of the year, people still pray for peace and health at home.

According to custom, farmers have a holiday on the vernal equinox. Every family should eat dumplings, and a dozen or thirty dumplings that don't contain hearts should be cooked and placed on the edge of outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks, which is called sticking sparrows' mouths so as not to destroy crops.

Qingming Festival

As a festival to worship ancestors, we eat a lot! )

The custom of eating green dumplings in Jiangnan. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done. Green glutinous rice balls, green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full.

Artemisia cake is similar to the green ball in Jiangnan. The production method is: "Take Artemisia bud and glutinous rice, make Artemisia juice and rice flour into a whole, take meat, vegetables, red bean paste and jujube paste as stuffing, put them into various fancy wooden molds, and steam them in the bottom cage of new reed leaves." The mugwort cake is green in color and has a plant fragrance. It is one of the foods for ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is also used to give gifts or entertain relatives and friends. In addition, Huaiyang also has the custom of eating tea eggs on Qingming Day.

Qingming wants to eat green food. Jiangnan is sweet and Lingnan is salty. But sweet is really delicious!

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. The prickly heat that is popular in Han areas is different from the north and the south: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour. In ethnic minority areas, there are many kinds of prickly heat with different flavors, especially in Uygur, Dongxiang, Naxi and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best time to eat snails. Because at this time, the snails have not yet propagated, and they are the most plump and plump, so there is a saying that "the snails in Qingming are worth a goose". Snails can be eaten in many ways. They can be fried with onion, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook, pick snail meat, mix, drink, rot and simmer. If you eat properly, it can really be called "a snail is not worth a thousand things, and wine is not as good as food."

In addition, both the north and the south of China have the custom of eating nutritious food such as eggs, cakes, sandwich cakes, Qingming zongzi, steamed cakes, Qingming cakes and dry porridge in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Grain Rain

According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. Therefore, no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink.

Toona sinensis is eaten in northern Grain Rain, and it is the season for Toona sinensis to go on the market around Grain Rain. At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis is tender as silk before the rain. Toona sinensis has the functions of improving immunity, invigorating stomach, regulating qi, relieving diarrhea, moistening skin, resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation and killing insects.

April 20th every year is the Fisherman's Day in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. This festival originated from Grain Rain Festival. Fishermen in the northern coastal areas of China have celebrated Grain Rain Festival for more than 2,000 years, and it was renamed Fisherman's Day in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty (182 1). On this day in Grain Rain, fishermen in Shandong coastal areas prayed for the blessing of Poseidon, smooth sailing and a bumper harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today's wealthy Rongcheng fishermen held a grand "sea sacrifice" activity in the Grain Rain, toasted Poseidon, and then set sail for fishing.

Ok, spring, that's it ~

Summer has begun.

There was a lot of food in the first solar term ~ remember that egg ~

Early summer

In midsummer, people in Shengzhou eat eggs in their hearts, bamboo shoots in their legs and peas in their eyes, which means people are on their bodies. The purpose is to pray for the health of the body, heart, legs and other important parts, prevent diseases, and successfully spend the hot summer.

In the old days, in rural areas, five-color beans such as red beans, soybeans, black beans, mung beans and mung beans were mixed with white rice and cooked into "five-color rice". Later, it evolved into glutinous rice cooked with Japanese bean meat. The dish consisted of amaranth and yellow croaker soup, which was called "long summer rice". Boiled eggs with black tea or walnut shells are called "long summer eggs" and fed to each other. Weave the egg cover with colored thread and hang it on the child's chest or curtain. Children play with long summer eggs, and the eggshell is strong but not broken to win.

It is a custom in Ningbo to eat "foot bone bamboo shoots" and cook them with black bamboo shoots, each of which is three or four inches long and not cut open. When eating, you should pick two bamboo shoots with the same thickness and eat them in one bite, saying that eating them can make your feet healthy. Then eat soft food (Junda food), saying that after eating it, there will be no rash in summer, and the skin will be as smooth as soft food.

People in Changsha, Hunan eat glutinous rice flour mixed with sage in summer, which is called "long summer soup". There is a folk saying that "eat long summer soup and learn from into the pit" and "eat a ball in long summer (pronounced" Tuo ") and cross the river with one foot", which means that he is extremely powerful and as light as a swallow; Farmers in the suburbs of Shanghai make strip-shaped food with wheat flour and sugar in summer, which is called "wheat silkworm". When people eat them, they can avoid "summer". People in Tongshan County, Hubei Province regard the long summer as an important festival. Chang Xia, a native of Tongshan, eats soaked strawberries, shrimps and bamboo shoots, which is called "eating soaked eyes, eating shrimps is strong, and eating bamboo shoots strengthens the feet and bones". Eating shrimp noodles in southern Fujian in the long summer is to buy shrimp and cook it in the noodles. Shrimp turns red when cooked, indicating good luck. Shrimp is homophonic with summer, which is a wish for summer.

East Fujian mainly eats "light cakes" (flour baked with a little salt) in the long summer. Zhouning, Fu 'an and other places in eastern Fujian soaked the light cake in water and made it into dishes, while Jiaocheng, Fuding and other places cut the light cake in half and ate fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat and waste vegetables. Some villages in Chunchi Town, zhouning county eat "long summer paste", which can be divided into rice paste and sweet potato paste. Cook the soup in a large pot. The content of soup is extremely rich, including meat, small bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, chicken and duck water, tofu and so on. Neighbors invited each other to drink paste soup. This is similar to the custom of eating "Qijia porridge" in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang in the long summer. "Qijia porridge" and "Qijia tea" are another form of tasting new things in the long summer. Qijia porridge is a big pot of porridge, which is made of rice, beans and brown sugar from neighbors for everyone to share. Seven families brought white baked tea, mixed it, cooked it or soaked it into a big pot of tea, and then everyone got together to drink it. These porridge or tea are not necessarily delicious food, but these ceremonies can be said to be important social activities in rural society in the past. In the long summer, in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, there is a custom of eating "seven porridge", that is, farmers give each other beans and rice and cook a pot of porridge with yellow sugar, which is called "seven porridge". It is said that after eating this kind of porridge, the neighborhood is harmonious, and they are bent on going to Xia Geng for summer sowing.

In the summer custom in Shanghai, eggs are always eaten in summer, because this is the peak season, and children always hang an egg with a red net around their necks. In Shanghai, there is also a saying called "Long Xia Ji Festival", which is called "eating vegetables and trying to be precious". The custom (see above) is to eat pancakes made of taro and cauliflower in the long summer, and all men, women and children should be weighed at noon.

Grain Buds

As a solar term, it officially entered the summer. At this time, the old Chinese doctor recommended the bitter vegetable diet ... Maybe. ...

Cherry red and mulberry black, this time is also the time when seasonal fruits are on the market.

Encyclopedia also appeared inexplicably: black pomfret can be caught in the waters near Changhua, Taiwan Province Province, and flying fish can be caught in the waters of Su 'ao and South China in the northeast. Bananas in Qishan, Meinong and other places in Kaohsiung County have entered a rich period. Taiwan Province Province is a famous banana producing area, and many bananas are exported to all parts of the world every year.

Does this mean that you can eat bananas and fish?

Grain in Ear

There is an apricot yellow in the proverb, which is probably edible.

Boiled plums

In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plum Boils Wine as a Hero" in the Three Kingdoms. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums.

Anmiao

Anmiao is a kind of farming folk activity in southern Anhui, which began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every season when rice seeds cover the sun, in order to pray for a good harvest in autumn, all localities should hold an Anmiao sacrifice. Every household steamed bags with new wheat flour, kneaded the flour into the shape of five grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed it with vegetable juice as a sacrifice, praying for the bumper harvest of five grains and the safety of the villagers.

flora

On the second day of the second lunar month, the flower festival welcomes the flower god. It's nearly May, and the flowers are beginning to fade. People often hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to the flower god on Ear Seed Day to send the flower god back to his place, and at the same time express gratitude to the flower god, hoping to meet again next year. This custom no longer exists today, but it was mentioned by the famous novelist Cao Xueqin in A Dream of Red Mansions.

Summer solstice

On the day of summer solstice, cold noodles are commonly eaten in all parts of Shandong Province, commonly known as water crossing, and there is a proverb "winter solstice, summer solstice in jiaozi". In Laiyang, Yantai, new wheat is recommended from summer to sun, while in Huangxian (now Longkou City, Yantai), new wheat grains are cooked and eaten. Children weave a delicate small hedge with wheat straw and fish it into their mouths again and again in soup. It is not only a game but also a game, which is very interesting for farm life.

Summer solstice wonton winter solstice reunion, four seasons Ankang people reunion.

Eating a plum in the summer solstice is not harmful for a year.

Minor Heat

There is a proverb: eat mangoes in summer. What nonsense is this! ? The so-called eating mango in summer means that this season is a mature and rich period of mango. Lotus leaves and lotus seeds abound in the lotus field in Baihe Town, Tainan County. Baihe Town is called Lotus Palace, and the Lotus Festival is held every year.

It's hot in summer, light in summer, and I'm too lazy to cook. This is a typical Cantonese accent. I want to drink mung bean soup this solar term ~

The dog days algorithm is related to the summer solstice, but it is only around the first dog days, that is, "jiaozi's head is in the dog days, and eggs are spread on pancakes in the dog days". Is it more common in the north?

Another saying about eating lotus root is that honey lotus root has the habit of eating lotus root in summer. Lotus root contains a lot of carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins and dietary fiber, which has the effects of clearing away heat, nourishing blood and relieving annoyance, and is suitable for eating in summer. Simmer fresh lotus root with low fire, slice it and add appropriate amount of honey, and you can eat it at will.

Major Heat

There is a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat broilers in summer. Broiler refers to a cockerel that can't crow, but has just matured but hasn't been bred yet; Or a cockerel weighing 1 kg for three months to 1.5 kg, which has never been bred. Later, there was a special variety called broiler. Broiler contains certain growth hormone, which has a good nourishing effect on children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level.

There is also a folk saying that "an old duck wins in summer." When the old duck stews soup, it can be eaten by adding vegetables such as lotus root and wax gourd to make soup, which can tonify deficiency, relieve summer heat and strengthen yang. Combined with Gordon Euryale seed and Coix seed stew soup, it has better aphrodisiac effect, can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and stimulate appetite.

People in Jiaojiang, Taizhou also have the custom of eating ginger juice to adjust eggs in summer. Ginger juice can eliminate moisture in the body, and ginger juice can adjust eggs and "replenish people". Some elderly people like to eat chicken porridge, which is said to tonify yang.

On the Great Summer Festival, Putian people have the custom of eating litchi, mutton and rice grains, which is called "over the Great Summer".

Litchi Litchi is a specialty of Putian, among which Song Jiaxiang, Zhuangyuanhong and "Eighteen Niang Red" are excellent varieties, which are well-known in ancient and modern times. Before and after the Great Summer Festival, the ripe litchi trees are fragrant for ten miles. Litchi contains a lot of glucose and vitamins and has certain nutritional value, so eating fresh litchi can nourish the body. Song Biyu's Litchi Recipe records: "Litchi should be picked with dew and soaked in cold spring. It is best to put it on a white porcelain basin when eating, and the contrast between red and white can better set off the delicate color of litchi; Evening is the best time to take a bath and take a photo of the new moon. " Therefore, from the old story: on the day of the Great Summer Festival, soak the fresh litchi in the cold well water first, and then take it out and taste it carefully when the Great Summer Festival arrives. Eating litchi at this time is the most pleasant and nourishing. So some people say that eating lychee in summer is as high as eating ginseng.

Mutton Warm Soup Mutton is one of Putian's special snacks and advanced dishes. After slaughtering the sheep, remove the hair and dirt, blanch the whole sheep in a boiling pot, pick it up and put it in a big pottery pot, then pour the boiling soup into the pot, soak it for a certain period of time and take it out to market. When eating, cut the mutton into pieces, the meat is crisp and tender, and the taste is delicious. Mutton is warm and tonic, and it is used as both food and medicine in Xian Yi (combination of medicine and tonic). On the morning of the Summer Festival, mutton is on the market, which is in short supply.

Rice grains Mix rice with white rice distiller's yeast and let it ferment until it is completely cooked into rice grains; In summer, cut into pieces and add some brown sugar to cook. It is said that it can "replenish vitality".

According to the doctor, the summer solar term is in the month just after the rainy season. At this time, although the weather is hot, the summer heat dominates the yin, and the human body is vulnerable to summer dampness and even gets sick. Eating these foods can enhance the body's disease resistance and drive away summer heat and dampness. ← This ..... is a small thunder. People who can count think that the rainy season has passed for a long time ... the end of July is over! In my experience, litchi is almost out of season and longan is almost ready.

During the Summer Festival, most of the waters around Taiwan Province Province are warm-water fish, with squid in the northeast and snapper in the outer seas of Keelung, Chizong and Changhua. Taiwan Province Province folk proverb: Eat pineapple in summer, saying that pineapple is the best in this season. In addition, June 15 is a "semi-annual festival". Because June 15 of the lunar calendar is half of the whole year, the whole family will eat the "half-year round" together after worshipping God on this day. Half-year rings are made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and rubbing it with red noodles. Most of them will be cooked into sweets to taste, symbolizing reunion and sweetness.

Eat and eat, and summer will be over.

Autumn is coming.

But it doesn't mean it will be cool ~

Because there's more! Autumn! Old! Tiger!

Beginning of Autumn

Beginning of autumn Festival, also known as July Festival. There is a custom of cutting and carving petals with heather red leaves and inserting them into temples, and there is also a custom of swallowing seven small red beans with autumn water (see Lin 'an Year).

In the vast rural areas, people are used to predicting the hot and cold weather during the day or night in early autumn. There is also the custom of tasting new things with watermelon and green beans and offering sacrifices to ancestors. On the day before beginning of autumn, Chen Bing had the customs of eating melons, steaming eggplant and frying fragrant incense.

In early autumn, people are popular to weigh themselves with hanging scales and compare them with those in long summer. Because people have no appetite in summer, and the food is light and simple. After two or three months, they will be thinner. With the autumn wind, my appetite is wide open. I want to eat something good, supplement some nutrition and make up for the loss in summer. The remedy is to "paste autumn fat": on this day in beginning of autumn, all kinds of meats, stews, barbecued braised pork, etc., "paste fat with meat".

"Eating autumn" is also called "biting autumn" in some places. Tianjin pays attention to eating watermelon or cantaloupe in beginning of autumn, which means "biting autumn", which means that the hot summer is unbearable. Take a bite when you get to beginning of autumn. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelon to "bite the autumn" in beginning of autumn. It is said that prickly heat in autumn can be avoided. In Zhejiang and other places, beginning of autumn eats watermelon and soju every day, which is believed by the people to prevent malaria. [2] The city people bought a watermelon in beginning of autumn that day, and the whole family gathered around to chew watermelon. It was autumn. On the other hand, farmers chew autumn more boldly. They sat in groups on the floor in the melon shed and under the shade, holding red watermelons, green watermelons, whisked sweet potatoes and golden corn cobs. What autumn expresses is actually a joy of harvest.

The heat is over

This is also a busy solar term. New rice is served, pears and chestnuts are ripe, and a large number of fruits and vegetables are ripe.

For coastal fishermen, every year during the hot summer, it is the harvest season after the hot summer; The annual grand fishing festival will be held in the coastal areas of Zhejiang Province, and it is decided to hold a grand fishing ceremony on the day when fishing is closed in the East China Sea to see the fishermen off to sea. The 9th China Fishing Festival was held in Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province on September 6th, 2006. Because; At this time, the water temperature in the sea area is still high, and the fish will still stay around the sea area, and the fish, shrimp and shellfish are mature. Therefore, from this time on, people can often enjoy all kinds of seafood.

Old duck tastes sweet and cool, so there is a tradition of eating duck in summer, and there are many ways to do it, such as boiled duck, lemon duck, ginger duck, roast duck, lotus leaf duck and walnut duck. Beijing still retains this tradition. Usually in summer, Beijingers will go to the store to buy lily ducks and the like.

White Dew

Speaking of the Millennium solar terms, autumn is getting stronger. In the old days, Nanjing people attached great importance to the "coming" and "going" of solar terms, and gradually formed solar terms customs with local characteristics in Nanjing.

Speaking of Bailuyuan, the old Nanjing who loves tea has a special liking for "Bailuyuan Tea". At this time, the tea tree is in the excellent growth period after the summer heat. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweet and mellow taste, which is especially loved by old tea customers. Moreover, the spring tea stored at home has basically been "consumed", and at this time, Bailu tea is being picked up, so before and after Bailu, a tea customer asked someone to buy some Bailu tea.

Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang have always had wine-making customs. Every year on the Millennium Festival, every family will make wine and drink "local wine" when receiving guests. Its wine temperature is spicy and slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

Autumn Equinox

The bait can't be reduced, and the lotus root is harvested and listed.

Although we have lotus roots here all year round, it is really good to go to winter at this time.

Crabs are getting fat. But it should be a little short.

There is no festive atmosphere at all! (Because of the busy farming. ) So there is no designated seasonal food. ...

Cold Dew

In the second half of autumn, there are Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival, and solar terms are not particularly important.

It is freezing in the cold season, and farmers are constantly idle every day.

Wheat planting is still booming, and harvesting late rice takes time.

Planting sweet potatoes is afraid of freezing injury, and soybeans are harvested in the open air.

The yellow fireworks will also be closed, and cotton picking is busy on sunny days.

Don't ignore the chemical substances to ripen the green and late-maturing cotton fields.

The key to grafting cucumber in greenhouse is heat preservation and moisture retention.

Picked purple hawthorn, red pomegranate is sour and sweet.

After the fruit is unloaded, take care of the trees, fertilize and spray soil.

Now is a good time to collect tree species, and the local provenance is the key.

Livestock and poultry breeding pays attention to technology, and pregnant females are careful.

Overwintering fish must be fattened, and adult fish should catch lotus roots.

But look at those silly folk songs above. Soybeans, peanuts, hawthorn and pomegranate are all good products in the season ~

Frost's Descent

The last solar term in autumn. There is a folk proverb called "It is better to make up the first frost than to make up for one year". Sounds like you can have a big meal?

The ancients generally ate mutton and rabbit meat in autumn. Some places want to eat red persimmons, thinking that they can keep out the cold and replenish their bones and muscles. Quanzhou old man said: eating persimmon diced in the first frost will not cause runny nose. Some places say that you should eat a shuttlecock on the first frost day, otherwise your lips will crack all winter. In other places, you must eat some beef on this day. Shandong agricultural proverbs: summer sorghum, white deer valley, first frost radish.

There are many agricultural proverbs about persimmons:

Persimmons are picked in the first frost, and soft dates are played in beginning of winter.

Persimmons are not picked in the first frost, and hard persimmons become soft persimmons.

After the busy harvest season, it is the coldest winter in a year.

Is there any entertainment in the cold outside? Just eating, of course!

Beginning of Winter

It used to be a farming society. After working for a year, I took advantage of beginning of winter to have a rest and rewarded my family for their hard work. The proverb "beginning of winter fills the winter with an empty mouth" is the best metaphor.

In terms of dietary customs, beginning of winter has the custom of eating pumpkin and jiaozi. When I was in early winter, it was difficult to buy pumpkins in the market. This kind of pumpkin is bought in summer and stored in a hut or window sill. After a long time of saccharification, dumplings are made. The taste is different from that of Chinese cabbage and pumpkin stuffing in summer. It needs to be dipped in vinegar and eaten with rotten garlic, and the taste is different.

(There, the first wave of crazy eating jiaozi!

In southern China, people like to eat some chicken, duck and fish in early winter. On this day in beginning of winter, in Taiwan Province Province, a mutton stove, ginger duck and other winter tonic restaurants are on the street. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken and siwu chicken to supplement energy.

Minor Snow

Some places in the south also have the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in the south of China, which was originally used by farmers to worship the cow god. There is a saying that "in October, Ciba Shao" refers to sacrificial events.

Bacon, not to eat now, but to start cooking. There is a folk custom of "preserving in winter and storing to keep out the cold". After a light snow, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which was a good time to process bacon. After the light snow festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon and enjoy food during the Spring Festival.

In addition, in the era when there are no greenhouse vegetables, Chinese cabbage should also be stored. As the saying goes, "snow shovel cabbage, snow shovel spinach."

Major Snow

Winter solstice

This is a solar term full of food.

Every year, during the winter solstice of the Lunar New Year, jiaozi is an indispensable holiday feast for both the rich and the poor. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi."

There used to be a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodles". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu in the north often harassed the frontier, and the people were restless. At that time, there were two leaders, Xiongnu tribe and Tun tribe, which were very cruel. The people hated it, so they wrapped it into a corner with meat stuffing and called it "wonton" with the sound of "muddy" and "swallowing". I hate eating, and I want to quell the war and live a peaceful life. Because wonton was originally made on the winter solstice, every household eats wonton on the winter solstice.

In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice in the evening from winter to Sunday. According to legend, * * * Gong was a troubled wit who died in the winter. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice from winter solstice to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent diseases.

In Taiwan Province Province, China, the tradition of worshipping ancestors with nine layers of cakes is still preserved, and glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows and sheep, symbolizing good luck and good luck.

Then put the long-lived animals in a steamer and steam them layer by layer to worship their ancestors to show that they don't forget their ancestors. On the early date agreed before and after the winter solstice, people with the same surname and clan gather in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors in order of age. After the ceremony, there will be a grand banquet for the people who come to worship their ancestors. Everyone drinks heartily and meets again after a long separation, which is called "food ancestor". The ancestors of the winter solstice festival are handed down from generation to generation in Taiwan Province to show that they have never forgotten their roots. Radish, vegetables, tofu, fungus, etc.

Gusu region attaches great importance to the solar terms of the winter solstice. There is a proverb in Gusu region: "The winter solstice is like a new year". Traditional Gusu people will drink winter wine on the night of winter solstice. Winter wine is a kind of rice wine, which is brewed with sweet-scented osmanthus and has a pleasant aroma. Gusu people will drink winter wine on the night of winter solstice, and at the same time, they will serve all kinds of braised beef and braised mutton. In the cold winter, winter brewing can not only drive away the cold, but also entrust Gusu people with their good wishes for life.

Asako, a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, is also a traditional snack of Fujian people and a sacrifice of Fujian people. Suitable for steaming, frying, roasting and sand frying after hemp is raised in the shade. Masi is also a famous snack in southern Fujian, among which Du Ying in Nan 'an is the most famous. Its raw materials are superior glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut kernel and rock sugar. The crispy rice is sweet and delicious, resistant to hunger after eating, sweet and smooth in taste, soft and tough and slightly icy. The finished product is bright white, smooth, tough and transparent.

Guangzhou also attaches great importance to the winter solstice, and eats a meal according to the specifications of the Spring Festival ancestor worship ~

Minor Cold

Nanjing: Eat vegetable rice.

In ancient times, Nanjing people attached great importance to slight cold, but with the changes of the times, it has gradually faded, and now people can only find some traces in their lives.

During the slight cold, old Nanjing usually cooks meals with different contents. Cook short-legged yellow vegetables with sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck, and chop some ginger with glutinous rice. It's delicious. Among them, dwarf yellow, sausage and dried salted duck are all famous specialties in Nanjing, which can be described as "Nanjing vegetable rice" and even comparable to Laba porridge.

Guangdong: Eat glutinous rice.

Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped onions and mix in rice.

Major Cold

According to the custom of our country, especially in rural areas, people are busy removing old cloth, pickling new year's vegetables and preparing new year's goods every cold festival. During the period from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, there were many important folk customs and festivals. For example, sumptuous food, kitchen sacrifices and New Year's Eve, and sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, are all in this solar term. The cold solar term is full of joy and festive atmosphere, and it is a cheerful and relaxed solar term. Tail teeth originated from the custom of worshipping the earth god as "teeth". The so-called second day of February is the first tooth. From now on, every second and sixteenth day is the "tooth", which happens to be the tail tooth on the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month. For example, on February 2nd, Weiya has spring cakes (called Runbing in the south). On this day, buyers and sellers will hold a banquet, and boiled chicken is an essential dish at the banquet. It is said that the boss will fire whoever the head of a chicken faces next year. Therefore, some bosses usually aim their heads at themselves, so that employees can enjoy delicious food and have a stable year after returning home.

In Foshan, Guangdong, there is a folk custom of cooking glutinous rice in a big cold pot. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, and has the effect of keeping out the cold and nourishing. Anqing, Anhui has the custom of frying spring rolls in cold weather.