1. Tangyuan
"Every family eats rice bags in jiaozi, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." For southerners, it is a deep-rooted custom to eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means reunion and perfection. For southerners, eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter symbolizes family harmony and auspiciousness. Jiaozi eaten by southerners is generally divided into salty and sweet. In recent years, "Internet celebrity jiaozi" similar to Fruit jiaozi is active in the winter solstice festival, but personally, they are not delicious.
Step 2: Baba
The solstice in winter is a lively traditional festival custom of people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In fact, eating Ciba from winter to day is very popular in many areas of China, such as northern Fujian and Yunnan, but the taste and shape of Ciba are different. Ciba is mainly glutinous rice, which is steamed and mashed repeatedly in a stone mortar. During the period, you need to knead and turn over until it is sticky and elastic, and knead it into small balls by hand. You can eat it with sugar and sesame seeds, or you can wrap it in various ingredients and fry it into stuffing. Both salty and sweet are delicious.
roast
As we all know, Cantonese people are no less fond of bacon than Sichuanese. During the winter solstice festival, many Cantonese people have the habit of "adding dishes". Roasted meat is a traditional food that Cantonese people will never forget to eat on the solstice in winter. Roasted meat is not limited to bacon and sausage, but also has a variety of bacon flavors such as preserved chicken, preserved duck and preserved fish. If you don't know how delicious roasted meat is, you can easily make up for it in your mind after eating Guangdong clay pot rice. In fact, the traditional winter solstice customs and food are nothing more than longing for a better life.
4. Rice cake
New year's cake, new year's cake. Eating rice cakes is to win the lottery ticket of "getting higher every year". People in Hangzhou eat rice cakes on the solstice in winter instead of jiaozi. There are many kinds of rice cakes and rich ways to eat them. People in Hangzhou cook different foods around rice cakes for three meals a day. Sweet rice cakes in the morning, fried rice cakes at noon and cooked rice cakes at night. The reason why we eat rice cakes all day is mainly the inheritance of traditional holiday customs and a kind of auspiciousness!
5. Sweet pills
In Chaoshan area, there has been a traditional custom of eating sweet pills in winter solstice for many years. What is a sweet pill? Sweet meatballs are sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water-kneaded meatballs. In fact, it looks like sweet dumplings now. In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "When you eat solstice pills in winter, you celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding years", that is to say, one year old is the solstice after winter. On the solstice of winter, family members sit around their seats. glutinous rice balls is cooked and served to their families. Some people make sweet balls and wrap red bean paste in them. In fact, they taste a bit like glutinous rice balls.
For southerners, the traditional food from winter solstice in different regions is different. On the solstice of winter, people not only eat delicious food, but also put on new clothes, give gifts to each other and set off firecrackers, just like Chinese New Year.