It is a common custom for people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi to pickle preserved meat from winter to the sun. It's dry and windy from winter to around, so we can start preparing food for the Spring Festival.
Wax products must be finished in a short month. Every household is busy buying pork to make bacon, and some make preserved chicken, duck, fish, pig's head, sausage and blood sausage. There is a saying in northern Guangxi that "bacon needs no salt in winter to the sun"; Guigang and other places have the custom of making wine from winter to Sunday, which is called "winter wine" for future receptions and Spring Festival banquets.
Second, zongzi
Zongzi, sand cakes and Ciba (also known as "East Temple" or "Dadu Temple") are also food for winter festivals from the solstice. Yulin people celebrate the winter solstice, and almost every household will make zongzi. Some locals simply call the winter solstice "Zongzi Festival".
Yulin Zongzi is seasoned with refined salt, southern milk, soy sauce and spiced powder, with pork, seafood, mung beans, boiled beans, chestnuts, peanuts and so on. After cooking, it is full of fragrance and is one of the favorite foods of Yulin citizens. Eating zongzi on the solstice in winter is also said to be "glutinous rice invigorating qi", which reflects the simple desire of working people to replenish energy for the coming year.
Third, raw fish.
In Binyang, Longzhou, Napo, Fusui and other places, raw fish is the main course of winter solstice.
There is a folk proverb that "fish is eaten at the solstice in winter, and dog meat is eaten at the solstice in summer". It is believed that cold fish should be eaten to moisten the intestines from winter to the sun; On the solstice of summer, the exterior yang is hot and the interior yin is cold, so it is advisable to eat warm dog meat to warm the stomach.
Fourth, tofu brewing.
On the solstice of winter, Han people in Yulin and Wuzhou eat tofu brain, while Zhuang people in Debao eat pumpkin rice, which means the same thing as eating mixed meals on the solstice of winter in the north.
The ancients believed that everything in the universe developed and changed from the initial chaotic state. The winter solstice was the beginning of the era and the initial movement and change of everything. Therefore, eating tofu and pumpkin rice on the winter solstice symbolizes the chaos of the universe and the beginning of the world.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Tangyuan
The food from winter solstice is rich and meaningful. In the folk, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter. Where the sky is round, glutinous rice balls symbolize the sky, and eating glutinous rice balls is to worship the sky.
In ancient times, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to heaven from the solstice in winter, and there was a custom of offering sacrifices to land from the solstice in summer. Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice of winter is an ancient tradition of offering sacrifices to heaven.
Sixth, eat winter.
Previously, married women in Wuxuan, Nanning and other places could go to their parents' home to "eat winter" during the winter solstice, but they had to return to their husbands' home before dark. If you can't go back to your husband's house, you have to spend the night at a foreigner's house.
After the founding of New China, Zhongshan, Yangshuo, Shanglin, Daxin, Sanjiang and other places have the custom of collectively worshipping ancestral temples, social workers, laborers, slaughtering pigs and sheep, and giving banquets in winter, and the worship ceremony is very grand.