Cantonese people don't eat jiaozi on the winter solstice.

Cantonese people always eat glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice, because eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is one of the traditional customs in southern China, and it is very popular in Guangdong province. In Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, there is a very unique custom, that is, at noon on the winter solstice, family members will get together, make glutinous rice balls with their own hands, and eat them together later, which means family reunion.

Eating dumplings is a traditional custom handed down from ancient times to the present in the winter solstice, which is particularly popular in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an essential food in the winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection", and eating tangyuan in the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group".

Winter Solstice Foods in Guangdong

1. Guangzhou:

Making soup to kill chickens and ducks. "Celebrate the New Year in winter" and "Be fat and lean in winter" are big proverbs that Guangzhou people have heard since childhood. During the winter solstice in Guangzhou, people usually make dumplings, kill chickens and ducks, and sit around with their families and have a big meal.

2. Foshan:

Steamed "muffins". The muffin has the good intention of being promoted to great heights, so steamed muffins are also indispensable.

3. Shunde:

Around the furnace. As a matter of fact, the edge-beating furnace is a famous dish of Han nationality, which is full of color, flavor and flavor. In Shunde, the family spent the winter solstice sitting around the edge furnace, pinning their hopes of being round, warm and having a good winter, hoping that the family would be safe and healthy and welcome the Spring Festival!

4. Zhongshan:

Eat "water olive". Zhongshan's "sweet dumplings" are not round, like olives, so they are called "water olives". The stuffing is usually lotus seed paste or mung bean paste, and some chrysanthemum meat is added.