1, Zhangzhou: and family members together "rub round". Zhangzhou custom, to eat winter solstice brown sugar dumplings. On the eve of the festival, every family uses glutinous rice to grind flour and roll balls, placed on a bamboo sieve. Early the next morning, they are boiled in a brown sugar pot for a festive breakfast. Those who have been away from home rush back to their homes as soon as possible to be reunited with their loved ones. Rolling soup dumplings, eating soup dumplings, posting soup dumplings, paying homage to ancestors and sweeping tombs, and posting "winterization couplets" are all very distinctive folk cultures.
2, Putian: winter solstice all night "sticking dumplings". The night before the winter solstice, Putian commonly called "winter solstice all night". In the evening of this day, the family hall on the red candle bright, light as day, signifying brilliant career. Red citrus on the table for the "fruit Yue". On the winter solstice, everyone gathered around the big dustpan (commonly known as "big hat arc"), the housewife of the glutinous rice milled powder (commonly known as "rice festival") into boiling water kneaded into a round strip, picked into a large grain of a large particle round billet, and then everyone with the palms of their hands to roll it into a grain of The "pills" are the size of a katsudon kernel, and this is the "winter solstice all-night rubbing pills".
3, Quanzhou: small year pocket to honor the ancestors to eat round. In Quanzhou, there is a "winter solstice small year pocket", the winter solstice early in the morning, families to honor ancestors, eat round. Quanzhou custom has "winter festival does not go home without ancestor" said, so those who go out, will go home as far as possible to visit their ancestors for the festival. In the morning of the Winter Festival, sweet pill soup should be cooked to honor the ancestors, and then the family to sweet pill soup for breakfast.
5, Ningde: eating dumplings. Ningde folk custom of eating dumplings in the morning on this day. There is a "eat the winter festival pills, winter is not afraid of the cold," said.
6, Nanping: sticky rice cake. Glutinous rice cake, Nanping glossy many local snacks in one of the more famous, and Fuzhou's "rice time" is similar. It is the use of locally produced high-quality glutinous rice by soaking in a rice cage or pot steamed, and then poured into a stone mortar, a person with a wooden pestle and mortar pounding, a person turning, folk commonly known as "playing mochi". Glutinous rice hit to sticky mud, picked up constantly, plus some sesame oil point moist, kneaded by hand into a thumb-sized balls, put into the fried sesame seeds, peanuts, beans, sugar in the powder bowl rolled through can be eaten.
7, Longyan: winter solstice ai leaf boiled chicken, package _ dumplings. Longyan Wuping winter solstice food, the most common is to eat chicken, with mugwort leaf rod boiled chicken, boiled out of the thick chicken soup, the elderly in the bottom of the bowl with deer antler powder, rushed on the chicken soup and mix, drink, this a winter will not feel the cold. Longyan winter solstice has a unique cuisine - _ dumplings, palm-sized, triangular, is the wild ramie or wormwood pounded, and glutinous rice rice kneaded into the skin, the filling is divided into two kinds of sweet and salty: salty _ dumplings filling is usually used asparagus shredded shrimp, mushrooms, mixed fried on, but also purely pickled vegetables as a filling.
8, Xiamen: ginger duck. Xiamen people can be said to be obsessed with duck, eating duck all year round, salt duck, soy sauce duck, roast duck, four things stewed duck, winter solstice eat ginger duck. There are fewer home-made ginger ducks, so as soon as the winter solstice arrives, a lot of people start lining up to buy ginger duck.
4, Fuzhou: eat rice when. Fuzhou folklore has a rubbing winter solstice round custom, also known as rubbing rice, is a kind of glutinous rice made of winter solstice snacks, Fuzhou pronunciation for "fine", both delegation round, but also on behalf of filial piety meaning. A bamboo basket is placed on the table, in which several red oranges, a pair of red chopsticks and a pair of paper flowers are placed. Praying for good luck in the coming year, it has become an important activity in the winter solstice tradition of Fuzhou.