In the customs of old Ningbo, Mariko is one of the must-eat delicacies from winter to sun. Tangyuan is a famous snack in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and it is a traditional China snack that every household will make to entertain guests. It is also a popular dessert with high ordering rate at hotel banquets.
Fermented glutinous rice balls are made of high-quality white glutinous rice, soaked in water and ground into glutinous rice flour. Knead the ground glutinous rice flour into small balls for later use. After the above white glutinous rice is steamed, it is mixed with yeast in a certain proportion, and it will become a fragrant, sweet and waxy wine in a few days. Boil the water and put it in a small round. When it floats to the surface, add the fermented grains, sugar and egg paste, and stir well to thicken. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle with osmanthus.
3. Frozen mutton
On the solstice of winter, old Ningbo people not only eat steamed dumplings, baked rice cakes with shredded radish and sweet potato soup, but also eat "frozen mutton" on this day in Simen, Yuyao, that is, buy fresh mutton, cut it into pieces, put it in soy sauce, fennel and other seasonings, cook it over high fire, put it in a pot, and freeze it into "frozen mutton" after cooling. Put a piece of "frozen mutton" in it when eating.
3. Sweet potato soup
Tang Guo is a must-eat food for Ningbo people in winter solstice. People in Ningbo have a saying that eating soup makes you one year older. Tang Guo is similar to dumplings, meaning "reunion" and "perfection", but Tang Guo is smaller and there is no stuffing in it. "Fan" and "Fan" are homophones. In Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the solstice in winter means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year.
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Many places in southern China will celebrate the winter solstice. Winter solstice is a traditional festival to worship the heavens and ancestors, and it is one of the eight major festivals in a year. On this day, people should worship their ancestors to God. There is a saying that "the winter festival is as big as a year, and it will never come back." People who go out must go home to worship their ancestors on the solstice of winter. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different.
After the ancestor worship ceremony, there is usually a big banquet to entertain the people who come to worship their ancestors. Everyone drinks heartily and contacts each other with long-lost feelings. Many places regard the winter solstice as a festival of reunion.
In many parts of northern China, it is a custom to eat jiaozi every winter solstice. As the saying goes: "On October 1st, when the solstice of winter comes, every family eats jiaozi." North China will eat jiaozi on this day, because jiaozi means "dispelling cold". Up to now, there is a folk proverb that "on the solstice of winter, jiaozi bowls are improper and nobody cares about frozen ears".