Eating dumplings on the winter solstice is especially popular in Jiangnan. "Tangyuan" is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour, which means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating Tangyuan 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.
2. Brewing
Traditional Gusu people will drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice. Winter wine is a kind of rice wine, which is brewed with osmanthus flowers and has a pleasant aroma. People in Gusu will drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice, and at the same time, they will also be served with all kinds of braised beef, braised mutton and so on.
3. 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. 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 in the order of age, 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".
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Traditional customs of the winter solstice:
1, Apprentice: The winter solstice is a traditional teacher's day in China in a sense. Teacher Zuo told the reporter that there were many private schools in ancient times, and China respected teachers since ancient times. On this day of the ancient winter solstice, students would specially worship teachers and send some gifts to their teachers.
2. Sacrifice: On the ancient winter solstice, the emperor would hold a grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven.
3. 99-99 Cold Relief Map: A folk entertainment game, in which literati draw 81 plum blossoms, which are dyed with red ink every day. After 99-80 days, the plum blossom map is completed, which is the time when spring warms bloom. There are also crossword puzzles. All nine words are nine strokes, one stroke every day, and when they are all finished, spring comes. For example, the commonly used nine words "weeping willows before the court cherish the spring breeze".
4, measuring the sun shadow: at noon on the winter solstice, put a long pole in the sun and measure the shadow cast. At this time, the measured sun shadow is the longest in a year. On the summer solstice, the sun shadow is the shortest.
5. Soot blowing: Use a tube. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there began to be glass tubes, and the reeds were burned into ashes. On the winter solstice, if you look carefully, the ashes will gently float out.
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