1, winter solstice group
Winter solstice meatballs are made of glutinous rice flour and steamed with meat, radish, sugar, fruit, cowpea, bean paste and shredded radish. Mainly used as offerings, it can also be used to send away relatives and neighbors or entertain guests. It is one of the essential foods for winter solstice feasts.
2, rice cakes
Eating rice cakes In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou liked to eat rice cakes on the solstice of winter. On the solstice of winter, they make three different New Year's cakes. In the morning, they eat rice cakes mixed with sesame powder and sugar. At noon, they fry rice cakes with pickles, winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. For dinner, they eat mustard seed rice cake, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup. Eating rice cakes on the solstice of winter is good luck to get old.
3. Red bean glutinous rice
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, there was a man named Gong, whose son died in the winter of the solstice and continued to endanger the people after his death. However, this person is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice on the solstice in winter.
4. Tangyuan
Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is a traditional custom in China, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. There are many famous jiaozi in the north and south, such as jiaozi in Ningbo, which is thin and sticky; Changsha sister jiaozi is white and crystal clear, sweet and delicious; The dumplings in front of Wenzhou County are very famous, delicious and sweet.
Step 5 brew
Hakkas believe that water is the most mellow in winter solstice, and the wine brewed with it can last for a long time, which is soft and refreshing, sweet and refreshing, and has sufficient stamina. Therefore, making wine on the solstice in winter has become a custom of Hakkas. For this day, Hakka housewives often choose an auspicious day to buy wine-making equipment in the market, move the aged jars to a stream, wash away the dirt with fine yellow sand, rinse them repeatedly with cool spring water, and finally dry them in the shade.