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From about the Song Dynasty, people in China ate glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan people still worship their ancestors and stoves with glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter. Lu Gu recorded in Volume XI of Jia Qinglu (1830): "Bihu grinds flour into balls, because it contains sugar, meat, cowpea paste and shredded reed, so it is called' Winter Solstice Ball'.
Among them, the dumplings are different in size. The big ones with stuffing are called rice balls, which are offerings to ancestors in the evening, and the small ones without stuffing are offerings to ancestors in the morning.
Precautions for eating glutinous rice balls:
Try not to add sugar.
The heat of dumplings is quite high. If you add sugar when eating glutinous rice balls, the calories consumed will be quite amazing, so don't add sugar when eating glutinous rice balls and don't drink sweet soup.
Boiling is better than frying.
The heat of glutinous rice balls is doubled after frying, and it is easy to get angry. You'd better boil them in water.
Don't eat too much.
The main raw materials of glutinous rice balls are sticky and difficult to digest, so they should be eaten in moderation. Eating too much may cause indigestion, bloating and stomachache.
Three high people eat dumplings and kidneys.
The calories and sugar content of glutinous rice balls are relatively high. Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes should be cautious when eating glutinous rice balls.
Old people and children should not eat more.
Old people and children have weak gastrointestinal function, while glutinous rice balls are not easy to digest and should not be eaten more. At the same time, the elderly and children should not be too anxious to eat jiaozi, otherwise they may suffocate because of swallowing, resulting in suffocation.
2. Barbecue
On the solstice of winter, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat from the solstice of winter. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. The whole family prepared some bacon and sausages to eat after paying homage to their ancestors, hoping to come to lucky strike next year.
Bacon is no longer just sausages, but also preserved fish, bacon, preserved duck, preserved chicken and so on. A pot of oily and delicious bacon clay pot rice can easily capture people's constant pursuit of food.
3. Sweet pills
According to legend, there was a custom of "drinking and carrying vegetables and paying tribute to the elderly" from the winter solstice in the Han Dynasty. Sweet pills have been popular since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Sweet pills are not only sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water pills, but also the most representative food from winter to Sunday. Before the winter solstice, farmers' housewives made glutinous rice flour (now mostly rolled mechanically), and some exchanged needed items as gifts for relatives and friends.
In the morning of winter solstice, adults and children at home often sit around a bamboo gourd or a big plate. Each person extracts a powder ball made of glutinous rice flour and water in advance and rubs it into a marble with both hands, which is called "winter solstice pill". "Winter Solstice Pill" symbolizes family reunion at the end of the year. Some "winter solstice pills" also contain orange cakes, winter melon candy and bean paste, commonly known as "duck mother cup". "Winter solstice pills" can be rubbed at will in different sizes, which is a good sign of "Gongsun pills". In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "Winter Solstice Pills, once eaten, celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding new year", which means that although the new year has not passed, everyone has added a year.
4. Nine-layer cake
Taiwan Province Province still retains the tradition of eating nine-layer cakes to worship ancestors in winter solstice. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that symbolize good luck, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to show that you don't forget your ancestors.
In Taiwan Province Province, winter festivals are also very common. On the day before the winter festival, after dinner, families rub circles in the hall. In ancient times, it was forbidden to say ominous words when rubbing circles. After rounding jiaozi, we should make up for the winter. Rice cakes are one of the supplements. Sweet rice cakes should be dried longan meat. Salted rice cakes include mutton cakes and red rice cakes. There are also babao stewed male muscovy ducks, cocks and turtles.
5.lamb cake
According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the solstice in winter is a feast, and many people participate in it, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba from the winter solstice. And whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, we should make Ciba. So in our hometown, Ciba is called "Big Ciba", and now jiaozi is called "Little Ciba" with a little disdain.
Wash the glutinous rice before making, steam it in an electric rice cooker, and then pour it into a stone mortar quickly while it is hot. Two or three people took a big wooden hammer and hammered it hard, while the other kept turning it over by hand to make it beat evenly. Beat it sticky and tender, knead it quickly into small pieces by hand while it is hot, put it into the already prepared bean sugar powder and stir it a few times at will, then serve. It tastes delicious and fragrant.
6. Tofu
In winter in Guangxi, we eat tofu buns, fry tofu into a hollow, and steam the meat. In Changzhou, people have been circulating the custom of eating onion and burning tofu on the eve of winter solstice. And there is a proverb called "Eat a hot winter, don't eat a frozen winter".
Every winter solstice, every household in Nanjing eats onions and makes tofu. It means "make rich" and "get rich". Similar to Nanjing, the winter solstice customs in Taizhou, Yangzhou and Nantong are basically the same.
7. Red bean glutinous rice
In the southern water town of China, it is a custom for the whole family to get together to eat red beans and glutinous rice on the night of winter solstice. According to legend, * * * Gong was a troubled wit who died in the winter. Become a plague ghost after death and continue to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red beans and glutinous rice on the solstice in winter to drive away the epidemic ghost and prevent disasters.
The ratio of adzuki bean to glutinous rice is 1: 2.5. Put adzuki beans in a boiling water pot (the ratio of adzuki beans to water is about 1: 5). Boil until medium-cooked, and take out. In addition, after washing the glutinous rice, soak it in the soup boiled with red beans for one night. The next day, stir the glutinous rice and adzuki bean evenly, steam them in a steamer for about 40 minutes, and serve.
8. Ginger Duck
The most distinctive food in winter is the ginger duck in Fujian and Taiwan. On this day, local people will stew a pot of nourishing duck soup with muscovy duck and ginger juice to drive away the cold and strengthen the body, and to increase the festive atmosphere for good luck.
Xiamen people like to eat ginger duck for tonic on the solstice in winter. Ginger duck is stewed with a whole piece of old ginger (no need to cut it). It is said that ginger is good for the body and can warm the stomach and tonify the kidney. There are many ways to do this. For example, it can also be stewed with four things (Angelica sinensis, Radix Astragali, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Radix Paeoniae Alba), or stewed with Lycium barbarum and Ginseng. Red dates are indispensable, and both black dates and red dates can be used. Chinese medicine believes that jujube can benefit qi and kidney.
9.rice cake
New year's cake, new year's cake. Eating rice cakes is to win the lottery ticket of "getting higher every year". From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou always eat rice cakes on the solstice of winter. The most extreme way to eat is to eat three meals a day without missing a meal. In the morning, we eat steamed rice cakes with sesame powder and sugar, fried rice cakes with oil and winter vegetables and shredded pork with winter bamboo shoots at noon. Dinner is rice cake with mustard, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup.
Playing rice cakes was once a major event in the village. Every year in the middle of December of the lunar calendar, everyone gets together and brings their own rice noodles, which are made in a unified order of first come, first served. Every time you make rice cakes, you should have a meeting in advance, and make clear the division of labor between flour, oven, cage and beating with the staff, and beat them day and night until the rice cakes are made. The scene is very spectacular.