1 wonton
In Beijing, there is a proverb called "Winter Solstice Wonton Summer Solstice Noodles". In the past, there was a saying in Beijing that wonton was eaten on the winter solstice. Wonton, a kind of food symbolizing reunion, was the first choice on the winter solstice table. Wonton has many names, such as Wonton in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Wonton in Guangdong, Noodles in Hubei, Clear Soup in Jiangxi, Wonton in Sichuan, Ququ in Xinjiang and so on.
So how did you eat wonton on the winter solstice? According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu in the north often harassed the frontier, and the people were restless. At that time, there were two leaders of Hun tribe and Tun tribe, which were very cruel. The people hated it, so they wrapped it into a corner with meat stuffing and called it "wonton" with the sound of "muddy" and "tun". Hate to eat, and seek to calm the war and live a peaceful life. Because wonton was originally made on the winter solstice, every household eats wonton on the winter solstice in Beijing.
2. jiaozi
During the winter solstice in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, people in northern China have a custom of eating jiaozi. There are many folklores about eating jiaozi on the winter solstice, and the most mainstream one is from Zhang Zhongjing.
According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in Nanyang, was an official in Changsha. When he retired from his old age, it was a snowy winter and the wind was biting. He was very sad when he saw that many villagers' ears were frozen, so he asked his disciples to set up a medical shed in Nanyang Guandong, put mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling herbs in a pot and cooked them, fished them out and chopped them up, imaged their ears with a leather bag, then put them in a pot and cooked them, making a kind of medicine called "cold-dispelling and ear-correcting soup" for the people to eat. After eating, the villagers' ears were cured. Later generations learned to "correct their ears" and packaged them into food, also called "jiaozi" or "flat food".
3. Mutton
At the beginning of the winter solstice, the people began to count nine from this day. For ordinary people, the winter solstice is nothing more than eating. In the north, there is a custom of eating mutton in the winter solstice, because the weather enters the coldest period after the winter solstice, and eating a pot of stewed mutton at this time has the dual effects of keeping out the cold and nourishing.
Mutton is warm in nature, which can resist wind-cold and tonify the body. It has curative effects on wind-cold asthma, impotence due to kidney deficiency, deficiency of both qi and blood, soreness of waist and knees, cold limbs and abdominal pain, sallow complexion and emaciation. In winter, the human body has yang hidden in it, and the kidney yang is insufficient, which is prone to cold hands and feet, dull face, weakness and other symptoms, while mutton is sweet but not greasy, warm but not dry, and has always been regarded as a good product for nourishing yang. Eating properly in winter can effectively alleviate the above symptoms.
4. Dog meat
Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice. The custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu, ate dog meat cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice, which made him feel particularly delicious and full of praise. Since then, the custom of eating dog meat on the winter solstice has been formed among the people. Nowadays, people eat dog meat, mutton and various nourishing foods on the winter solstice in order to have a good omen for the coming year.
Some people who are physically weak and suffer from arthritis are good at eating more dog meat in severe winter. But it is not advisable to eat dog meat blindly, so as not to eat rabies meat and get rabies. Dog meat is a hot food and should not be eaten too much at a time. Anyone suffering from non-deficiency cold diseases such as cough, cold, fever, diarrhea and hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency should not eat it.
What should we pay attention to in winter solstice health care?
1, daily life: matters needing attention in daily life during the winter solstice.
The winter solstice is the most important solar term in health preservation, mainly because "the winter solstice is a sun-born". Winter solstice to slight cold and severe cold is the coldest season. People suffering from heart disease and hypertension often get worse, and the number of people suffering from "stroke" increases, and it is easy to get frostbite in cold weather.
Therefore, in the cold winter season, for patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease, we should be especially vigilant to guard against the attack and take the following preventive measures:
Pay attention to cold and warmth. When the temperature drops below 0℃, clothes should be added in time. Clothes and trousers should be warm, soft and loose, and should not be worn too tightly to facilitate blood flow.
Reasonable adjustment of diet and daily life, no drinking, no smoking, no overwork.
Keep a good mood, be stable and happy, and avoid anger, impatience and depression.
Carry out proper exercise to keep out the cold, such as washing your face with cold water at ordinary times, to improve your body's adaptability and cold tolerance.
Observe and pay attention to the changes of the disease at any time, go to the hospital for regular examination, take necessary drugs, control the development of the disease, and prevent problems before they happen.
2, dietary supplements: winter solstice supplements.
Don't eat too spicy and stimulating food on the winter solstice. Eating too spicy can only lead to the accumulation of internal heat and the stagnation of heat. Overeating mutton, dog meat and other fat and sweet flavors can easily lead to indigestion, dampness and phlegm. In the north, while supplementing hot food, we also have to eat some foods that supplement body fluids, such as water chestnut, lotus root, pear, radish, cabbage and so on. "It's a three-point poison", and food supplement is the safest.
3, mental outlook: winter solstice health care pay attention to "winter storage", focusing on nourishing the heart.
The winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere all year round. After the winter solstice, the days will get longer day by day. After the winter solstice, the climate in all places has entered a coldest stage, which is often called "entering the ninth". There is a folk saying in China that "the cold is in the third nine, and the heat is in the dog days".
The arrival of this solar term is that the yang is hidden, the yin is extremely prosperous, and all activities tend to stop. In hibernation, you can save your strength and prepare for the coming spring. Just as "in winter, when the heaven and the earth are closed and the blood is hidden, people should not sweat and vent their yang." Therefore, going to bed early and getting up late, and doing it at sunrise, to ensure adequate sleep, is conducive to the hidden yang and the accumulation of yin essence. Do not sweat profusely.
Health care should also focus on nourishing the heart. It is necessary to cultivate a kind and generous heart before health care, and the bottom of my heart is free from worry. Keep the spirit open and optimistic, don't worry about trifles, don't force fame and fortune, and suffer from loss. Children should be caring and attentive to the elderly, so that the elderly can be mentally maintained.
4, daily health care: winter solstice acupuncture points to pay attention to.
The winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang. Moxibustion at Shenque is the best time to stimulate the body's yang to rise.
In the four days before and after the winter solstice, plus the nine days of the winter solstice, you can keep in good health by moxibustion at Shenque point with moxa sticks. After burning the moxa stick, take the navel as the center and smoke around the navel. Be careful not to burn your skin, just feel warm. Once a day, each time15-20 minutes.
Shenque point is the foundation of the five zang-organs and six fu-organs. It is the place where ren pulse and chong pulse follow, the root of qi returning to Tibet, and the key point connecting congenital and acquired. Moxibustion at Shenque point can benefit qi and tonify yang, warm kidney and strengthen spleen, dispel wind and remove dampness, warm yang and save inverse, warm meridians and harmonize qi and blood, which is very beneficial to the body and even makes people less sick in the second year.
5, disease prevention: winter solstice pay attention to the "head up" prevention and control of influenza A epidemic should be early.
Influenza virus has amazing infectivity, and it can be caused by directly inhaling the virus in the air or bringing the virus into the respiratory tract by hand. Therefore, to prevent influenza, we must first cut off the spread of influenza virus, such as finding and isolating influenza patients in time and going to crowded places less; Second, in daily life, we should strengthen physical exercise, pay attention to rest and supplement vitamin C, etc. Third, it is necessary to vaccinate against influenza in advance if conditions permit; Fourth, you can take some effective flu preventive drugs at ordinary times.
Characteristics of winter solstice weather change
Short sunshine time
Before and after the winter solstice, although the northern hemisphere has the shortest sunshine time and receives the least amount of solar radiation, the heat accumulated on the ground in the summer half can also provide some supplement, so the temperature is not the lowest at this time. "After eating the winter solstice meal, the day grows longer." After the winter solstice, the daylight time is increasing. However, the solar radiation obtained on the ground is still less than the heat lost by the ground radiation, so the temperature will continue to drop in the short term. Except for a few islands and coastal areas in China, 1 month is the coldest month, so there is a folk saying that "the winter solstice is not too cold", and astronomy also stipulates that "the winter solstice" is the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere.
Astronomy regards the winter solstice as the beginning of winter, which is obviously late for most parts of our country. The winter solstice is the shortest day in a year. After the winter solstice, the direct point of the sun gradually moved northward, and the days in the northern hemisphere gradually became longer and the nights became shorter.
The temperature is lower and the climate is cold.
Climatically, during the winter solstice, the average temperature in the northwest plateau is generally below 0℃, and the southern region is only about 6℃ to 8℃. In addition, the winter solstice began to count nine, and the winter solstice became the first day of counting nine. As for "Counting Nine", a folk ballad goes like this: "If you don't do it in September and September, you will walk on the ice in March and April, and if you look at willows along the river in May and June, the river will open in July and September. _ Yan Lai, and if you add cattle in September and September, you will walk everywhere." However, even in the first half of the coldest month 1 month in the southwest low-altitude valley area, the average temperature is still above 10℃. It can be said that autumn has gone to spring, and there is no winter all year round.
There are different customs in different places during the winter solstice, and most places in northern China have the custom of eating jiaozi during the winter solstice. After thousands of years of development, the winter solstice has formed a unique seasonal food culture. Eating jiaozi has become the winter solstice custom of most people in China. Of course, there are exceptions, such as the custom of drinking mutton soup on the day of the winter solstice in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, which means driving away the cold.
What traditional food do you eat on the winter solstice? 2 Tangyuan
Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is more popular in Jiangnan. The materials commonly used to make glutinous rice balls, such as glutinous rice, sesame seeds and red beans, are also warm and have a good spleen-strengthening effect. The spleen and stomach are healthy, and the dietary nutrition will be absorbed and utilized by the body, which will improve the body's ability to resist cold and prevent diseases. It is most suitable for eating in winter.
Chinese dumpling
Eating jiaozi on the winter solstice doesn't freeze your ears. This statement comes from Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage. He saw that people's ears were damaged by freezing in the cold, so he used bread and cooked it to make "Jiao Er Tang" to cure people's ears. Today, eating jiaozi on the winter solstice is no longer to cure frozen ears, but the reasonable combination of noodles, vegetables and meat makes jiaozi a delicious food with comprehensive nutrition and easy digestion and absorption. Jiaozi can be stuffed with mutton, Chinese cabbage, green onions, leeks, radishes, etc. These dishes are warm and have a certain warming effect on the human body.
eight treasure congee
Hot eight-treasure porridge is very suitable for warm and soft diet in winter. Chinese medicine believes that eating porridge can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and has a certain effect of nourishing yin, just against the characteristics of dryness in winter. In order to play a role in keeping out the cold, we can choose warm or mild foods that can strengthen the spleen and stomach, such as coix seed, jujube, walnut, peanut, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, longan, yam and tremella. We might as well be creative and mix these ingredients into delicious porridge, such as mutton porridge, chicken porridge, glutinous rice porridge with red dates, millet porridge with yam, white fungus porridge with red dates and rice porridge.
radish
There is a folk saying: "winter solstice radish summer solstice ginger, eat at the right time without pain." He added, "Radish is better than ginseng in winter. Therefore, eating radish on the winter solstice is the most nourishing. On the night of the winter solstice, it is just suitable for stewing a pot of hot radish sparerib soup to supplement nutrition, nourish the body and enhance the cold resistance.
wonton
There is a saying in old Beijing that "winter solstice wonton and summer solstice noodles". "Yanjing Years Old" says: "The shape of husband's wonton is like a chicken egg, which is quite like the chaos of heaven and earth, so it is eaten on the winter solstice. In addition to similar shapes, "wonton" is also homophonic with "chaos". Eating wonton in winter is beneficial to the storage of heat energy in cold season.
mutton
Many places in the north have the custom of eating dog meat and mutton on the winter solstice. Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of aphrodisiac and complement. In fact, in the south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou people began to make up for it from the winter solstice, and what they ate was the well-known mutton collected in Wuzhong.
Mutton is sweet and warm, and has the function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. It has always been a good product for tonifying yang and is one of the important foods for tonic in winter solstice. The calorie of mutton is higher than that of beef, and the iron content is six times that of pork, which has a remarkable effect on hematopoiesis. Eating mutton often in winter can replenish qi and deficiency, enrich blood and help yang, promote blood circulation and enhance the ability to keep out the cold.
However, mutton is a hot product, and those who have symptoms of getting angry such as fever, toothache, sores on the mouth and tongue, and vomiting yellow phlegm are not suitable for eating. Suffering from liver disease, hypertension, acute enteritis or other infectious diseases, and it is not suitable for eating during fever.
How to maintain health during the winter solstice;
Acupuncture and moxibustion dredging points
The winter solstice is the natural transformation of yin and yang. Moxibustion at Shenque is the best time to stimulate the body's yang to rise.
In the four days before and after the winter solstice, plus the nine days of the winter solstice, you can keep in good health by moxibustion at Shenque point with moxa sticks. After burning the moxa stick, take the navel as the center and smoke around the navel. Be careful not to burn your skin, just feel warm. Once a day, each time15-20 minutes.
Shenque point is the foundation of the five zang-organs and six fu-organs. It is the place where ren pulse and chong pulse follow, the root of qi returning to Tibet, and the key point connecting congenital and acquired. Moxibustion at Shenque point can benefit qi and tonify yang, warm kidney and strengthen spleen, dispel wind and remove dampness, warm yang and save inverse, warm meridians and harmonize qi and blood, which is very beneficial to the body and even makes people less sick in the second year.
Avoid living.
The winter solstice is one of the most important solar terms in health preservation, mainly because "the winter solstice is a sunny day." Winter solstice to slight cold and severe cold is the coldest season. People suffering from heart disease and hypertension often get worse, and the number of people suffering from "stroke" increases, and it is easy to get frostbite in cold weather.
Therefore, in the cold winter season, for patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease, we should be especially vigilant and guard against attacks, and should take the following preventive measures.
1. Pay attention to cold and warmth. When the temperature drops below 0℃, clothes should be added in time. Clothes and trousers should be warm, soft and loose, and should not be worn too tightly to facilitate blood flow.
2. Reasonable adjustment of diet and daily life, no drinking, no smoking and no overwork.
3. Keep a good mood, be stable and happy, and avoid anger, impatience and depression.
4. Take appropriate cold-proof exercises, such as washing your face with cold water at ordinary times, to improve your body's adaptability to cold and cold tolerance.
5. Observe and pay attention to the changes of the disease at any time, go to the hospital for regular examination, take necessary drugs, control the development of the disease, and nip in the bud.
Pay attention to the hypothermia of the elderly in severe winter. Hypothermia is defined as 35℃, and those below 35℃ are hypothermia. Because the elderly may have no discomfort and pain after hypothermia, they are often easily overlooked. Elderly patients with hypothermia have no obvious symptoms even when they are life-threatening. Such patients generally do not have chills, but if they are not treated in time, they will be confused. The language is unclear, and then coma, and the body temperature immediately drops below 30℃. At this time, the patient's pulse and breathing are very small, blood pressure plummets, face swells, muscles become hard, and skin feels cold. Therefore, in the cold winter, the elderly should take measures to prevent cold and keep warm in their rooms.
What traditional food to eat on the winter solstice 3;
North: Want to eat jiaozi?
In northern China, there is a saying that "Winter Solstice jiaozi Summer Solstice Noodles". Why do you want to eat jiaozi on this day? Jiaozi, formerly known as Jiaoer, is said to have been invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in China, with a history of more than 1,800 years.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor, saw that many poor people suffered from hunger and cold, and their ears were frozen and rotten, so he invented the soup for dispelling cold and jiao 'er, which was cooked in a pot with mutton, pepper and some herbs for dispelling cold, and then these things were fished out and chopped up after cooking, and the noodles were wrapped into ear-shaped "jiao 'er". After cooking, they were distributed to patients, each with two jiao 'er and a bowl of soup. After eating Quhan decoction, people get fever all over, their blood is smooth, their ears get warmer, and the patient's rotten ears will be cured in a while.
Shanxi: Most of them are wonton or jiaozi.
The folk food of winter solstice in Shanxi is mostly wonton or jiaozi. Generally, mutton is used as stuffing, which means "Yang Sheng". The dumpling stuffing is made of sheep from village herding, with more than ten kinds of aromatic drugs and seasonings, such as cinnamon, galangal, cinnamon, cardamom, etc., mixed with shredded Cucurbita moschata, wrapped and steamed in a cage for 15 minutes. The dumpling stuffing is thin and tender, and when eaten, it breaks the skin with a sip of water, bites the stuffing into pills, and is supplemented with aged vinegar. It is fresh but not greasy, and has a long fragrance, and can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite and drive away.
In Linfen, Shanxi, Xiangfen and other places, regardless of the mountainous areas, the Winter Solstice Festival still follows the ancient method of eating wonton. In the old days, the rich and wealthy family sought novelty, and every device had more than ten colors, which was called "Baiwei wonton". Prosperous boiled rape root rice soup in southern Shanxi.
In addition to eating wonton and jiaozi, there are some places in Shanxi that eat cakes, such as eating oil cakes in Heshun, millet cakes in Lingshi, and "making winter" in Pinglu, and dipping chicken in vegetarian cakes with mutton soup.
Oil cake
Datong pays attention to eating stewed meat, and there is a folk proverb that "don't eat meat on the winter solstice, and your toes will rot". Hequ has the custom of "worshipping winter", eating and entertaining, accompanied by mutton soup and jujube-brewed lamb, which means "the legacy of bright wine" In the Yangcheng area in the southeast of Shanxi, you eat melon porridge stewed with old north melon and millet.
Suzhou people: eating wonton and remembering beauty.
Suzhou was the capital of the State of Wu 2,500 years ago, and the ancestor of the State of Wu was a descendant of King Tai of Zhou, who inherited the calendar of Zhou Dynasty and took the winter solstice as the beginning of the year. So far, the ancient city of Suzhou still has the custom of "the winter solstice is as big as a year".
On the winter solstice, Suzhou people also have the custom of eating wonton. According to legend, the prince of Wu, who was tired of eating delicacies, had no appetite, so beauty Xi Shi went into the imperial kitchen and wrapped up a snack for him. The king of Wu ate a big bowl in one breath and repeatedly asked, "What kind of snack is this, so delicious?"
Xi Shi thought, "The muddled monarch can't get away from chaos, so he casually replied," Chaos. " Later, in order to commemorate the delicious food created by Xi Shi, Suzhou people designated wonton as the food for the Winter Solstice Festival.
In addition, in the supermarkets in the streets of Suzhou, the ancient city, winter wine is piled up like a "hill". Winter wine brewed only once a year, osmanthus is fragrant, sweet and refreshing. There is a saying in Suzhou since ancient times that if you don't drink winter wine on the winter solstice, you will be frozen overnight.
Chaoshan area: Sacrificing ancestors and eating sweet pills.
In Chaoshan area, the winter solstice, also known as "Little Chinese New Year", is a big folk festival. On this day, ordinary people should prepare enough three kinds of animals and fruits, such as pork, chicken and fish, go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors, and then their families will gather around the table for a meal. In coastal areas, it is necessary to worship the ancestors before the fishermen go fishing, pray for the fishermen, and ask the gods and ancestors to bless their safe return from the sea.
There is a saying in Chaoshan that "one year after eating the winter festival round", among which "the winter festival round" is the glutinous rice ball, which is also called sweet pill in Chaoshan area. The custom of eating sweet pills on the winter solstice is almost universal in Chaoshan area.
On the day before the Winter Festival, after dinner, the housewife arranged to put a large basket on a low stool and knead the glutinous rice powder into a ball. Then, the whole family, big or small, sat around, and each of them pinched the dough and rubbed it into a winter solstice pill the size of a marble. Some people deliberately rub some uneven-sized pills, which are called "father gongsun" pills, symbolizing the fullness of the family at the end of the year. After getting up, adults and children have to eat a bowl of winter solstice pills, so that they are one year older. If a family member has not returned home, then be sure to leave some glutinous rice flour for him and make him a bowl of soup balls when he returns home.
This custom also contains an interesting vulgar custom: after people worship their ancestors on this day, they take out some sweet pills and stick them on their doortops, roof beams and rice jars. But up to now, only the custom of "eating sweet nine" is left.
Ningxia: eating "brains"
On the winter solstice, there is a custom in Yinchuan. On this day, you should drink noodle soup and eat mutton noodle soup jiaozi. Yinchuan people also gave mutton powder soup a special name-"brain".
Mutton powder soup is made by cooking mushrooms and mutton, with seasonings such as salt, ginger, onion, garlic, pepper, soy sauce, etc. After the soup is boiled, put it into cut pieces and soaked vermicelli, and then add leeks, garlic sprouts and coriander, so that a pot of colorful mutton powder soup is ready, with a fragrant smell and mouth watering.
After jiaozi made the noodle soup, he offered a bowl of it first, and served a bowl to his neighbors. Mutton powder soup jiaozi has a unique way and a spicy and delicious taste. Now it has become a special snack in Yinchuan.
Jiangnan Water Town: Eating Red Bean and Glutinous Rice
In the Jiangnan water town of our country, it is a custom for the whole family to get together and eat red beans and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice.
According to legend, there was a man named * * * Gong's. His son was incompetent and evil, and he died on the winter solstice. After his death, he became an epidemic ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off the epidemic ghost and prevent and cure diseases.
Shanghai: Eating dumplings symbolizes family harmony.
The roundness of "glutinous rice balls" means "reunion" and "perfection", and eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". The winter solstice group can be used to worship ancestors or to give gifts to relatives and friends.
In the old days, Shanghainese were most particular about eating dumplings. The ancients had a poem saying: "Every family beats rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." Eating dumplings on this day also symbolizes family harmony and auspiciousness.
Hangzhou: Eat rice cakes three times a day.
People in Hangzhou like to eat rice cakes on the winter solstice to celebrate. Every winter solstice, cakes are made to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends.
In the diet, three meals will make rice cakes with different flavors, such as rice cakes mixed with sesame powder and sugar, fried rice cakes with shredded pork and so on. People in Hangzhou eat rice cakes on the winter solstice for good luck, which means getting older.
Xiamen: queuing to buy ginger duck
Xiamen people have a special liking for ducks. They eat ducks, salted ducks, sauced ducks, roast ducks and four kinds of stewed ducks all year round, and eat ginger ducks on the winter solstice. As long as there is a stall selling ginger ducks in a street, the whole street smells fragrant. Ginger duck is made of muscovy duck with red face as raw material. After frying duck meat with sesame oil, ginger (ginger) and rice wine are added for stewing. It has the functions of soothing liver and moistening lung, nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold and resolving phlegm, and is especially nourishing.
Ginger ducks do less at home, so as soon as the winter solstice arrives, many people begin to queue up to buy ginger ducks.
China Taiwan Province: Nine-layer cake for ancestor worship.
In Taiwan Province, China, the tradition of worshipping ancestors with nine-layer cakes on the winter solstice is still preserved. Glutinous rice flour is used to knead animals such as chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep, etc., which symbolize good luck and good luck, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to worship ancestors to show that they do not forget their ancestors. On the winter solstice or at the early date agreed before and after, people with the same surname and the same clan gather in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors one by one in the order of seniority, commonly known as "ancestor worship."
After the ceremony, there will be a big banquet to entertain the clansmen who come to worship their ancestors. Everyone drinks heartily and connects with each other after a long separation, which is called "food ancestor." The ancestors of the Winter Solstice Festival have been handed down from generation to generation in Taiwan Province to show that they have never forgotten their roots.