1, chicken and duck pot
"Spring Festival in winter" and "Fat winter and thin year" are proverbs that Guangzhou people have heard since childhood. On the solstice of winter in Guangzhou, people usually pack jiaozi, kill chickens and ducks, and sit around with their families for a big meal.
2, around the furnace
The side furnace is actually a boiler, which is a Chinese dish with good color and flavor. In Shunde, the family sat around the fire to spend the winter solstice, hoping that the family would reunite and spend a wonderful winter warmly, and that the whole family would be safe and healthy and welcome the Spring Festival together!
3. water olives
The "jiaozi" in Zhongshan is not round, like an olive, so it is called "water blue". The stuffing is usually lotus seed paste or mung bean paste, with some chrysanthemum meat.
4. Salted jiaozi
Yangjiang people celebrate the winter solstice, and they will pack salty jiaozi, which is a local specialty and means "family reunion and happiness". Yangjiang people call jiaozi "Ziyuan", which is different from ordinary jiaozi. Jiaozi is not wrapped in jiaozi, but cut into powder, cooked in soup and cooked together after smelling the fragrance.
5. Cook mutton with wine
Hakkas call the solstice of winter "overwintering". According to custom, every household should have a good meal. Around the winter solstice, Hakka people in Meizhou like to eat mutton and cook wine, thinking that eating the winter solstice is good for health. Therefore, cooking mutton with wine has become the seasonal food of Hakka in winter solstice. Besides, it is also one of the most important customs in Meizhou to brew Niangjiu on this day. This custom has been circulating for thousands of years and still prevails today. In the early morning of winter, many villagers are busy brewing Hakka Niang wine at home. Hakka people think that the water tastes the most mellow in winter solstice.
6. Winter group
Dongwan is a traditional food that Taoist people must eat from winter to Sunday (commonly known as "making winter"). It consists of glutinous rice skin and stuffing. Winter dumplings are usually made of plum beans with peanuts and other materials, which are divided into sweet and salty flavors. Good winter meatballs need to be oiled, then padded with banana leaves and steamed in a steamer.
7. Cape Ai
It is a traditional snack of Guangdong Han nationality and belongs to Cantonese cuisine. The main raw materials for making wormwood are wormwood and glutinous rice flour. Making "Ai" is the most important step: first, take local wild Ai, blanch it with boiling water, and then rub it back with a bamboo dustpan to make it into velvet, so that you can make edible Ai. Then mix rice flour to make vermicelli, and wrap it into a corner with salty and sweet stuffing. Most of the love peppers eaten in Huizhou in winter are salted. Traditional ingredients include shredded radish, lard residue, shrimp head and spiced powder. You can eat it when it is steamed.