1 Tangyuan is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China. Since the Song Dynasty, people in China have eaten Tangyuan on the Lantern Festival. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan people also used glutinous rice balls to worship their ancestors and stoves on the winter solstice. Gu Lu recorded in Volume 11 of Qing Jia Lu (1830): "Bihu grinds flour into a ball, and it is called the' Winter Solstice Ball' because it is filled with sugar, meat, cowpea paste and shredded reed, and it is the product of offering sacrifices to the stove first.
2. Roasted meat is a traditional famous dish of the Han nationality with full color and flavor. On the day of the winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat on the winter solstice. Among them, roasted meat is an indispensable traditional food on the table of Guangdong people during the winter solstice. The whole family prepares some bacon and sausage to eat after offering sacrifices to their ancestors, so as to pray for coming to lucky strike next year.
3. Nine-layer cake, one of China's special pastry snacks, Taiwan Province still keeps 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 show respect for ancestors.
4. Ciba popular food in some areas in the south According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the winter solstice will be Ciba, 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, we should make Ciba. Therefore, in our hometown, Ciba is called "Da Ci", and now the common dumplings are called "Xiao Ci" with some disdain.