Customs of the Winter Solstice in Guangdong

Customs of the Winter Solstice in Guangdong. In different places, each festival has different customs and activities, but these customs and activities are all to welcome the arrival of the festival. The following are the customs of the Winter Solstice in Guangdong that I have carefully prepared for you. Friends who are interested can come and take a look. Guangdong Winter Solstice Customs 1

Guangzhou Customs

Winter Solstice is also called Winter Solstice, Winter Festival, and Xiaonian in Guangzhou. From the mouths of older people, you may have heard that Winter Solstice is also called Winter Solstice. They are called Da Dong, Ya Sui, Fei Dong, Xi Dong, Lu Long Festival, Long Solstice, and Short Solstice. "Winter is great to celebrate the New Year" and "winter is fat to celebrate the New Year" and "winter is fat to celebrate the New Year" are proverbs that Guangzhou people have heard since childhood. The Winter Solstice seems to be more important than the Spring Festival, and the battle is bigger than the Spring Festival. Nowadays, people in Guangzhou celebrate the winter solstice. Many families also make glutinous rice balls, cook chickens and kill ducks, and sit around to have a sumptuous meal. There are also many people in Guangzhou who choose to celebrate the festival in restaurants and reunite with their families, making every family in restaurants of all sizes "traditional." shake". However, worshiping ancestors and gods is no longer common in every household, and "feeding and consumption" is also extremely rare.

Shunde Customs

In Shunde, there is also the folk custom of "sitting around a fireside to celebrate the winter solstice", which means reunion, warmth and happiness this winter, and the family is safe. Stay healthy and welcome the Spring Festival. Dabianlu is actually a Dabianlu. It is a famous Han Chinese dish that is full of color, flavor and flavor. It belongs to Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese hot pot. The main ingredients are sashimi, squid slices, shrimp slices, etc. The main cooking process is boiling. "Dabian stove" is different from the ordinary so-called "hot pot". Hot pot is eaten while sitting down, while "Dabian stove" is eaten standing up; hot pot uses metal utensils with charcoal burned in the middle, while "Dabian stove" uses tiles.

Zhongshan Customs

Xiaolan has the custom of eating "water olives" during the winter solstice. Xiaolan's "tangyuan" are not round, but like olives, so Called "Shui Lam", it is actually a glutinous rice dumpling filled with chrysanthemum meat. The filling is usually lotus paste or mung bean paste, and some chrysanthemum meat is added.

In addition to the general customs, Dongsheng people also like to stew mustard greens, sweet potatoes, and pork cubes into a dish called "粤东" to worship their ancestors, which means to welcome the coming of winter. In Tanzhou, local villagers also like to eat tea fruits to celebrate the festival.

Meizhou Customs

The Hakka people call the Winter Solstice "winter", and according to custom, every household must "have a good meal". "Winter Solstice Mutton and Summer Solstice Dog", before and after the winter solstice, Hakka people in Meizhou like to eat mutton boiled with wine. People believe that mutton is warming and tonic, and eating it during the winter solstice is of great benefit to the body. Therefore, mutton boiled with wine has become a winter solstice season for the Hakka people. gourmet food.

In Meizhou, a Hakka region in eastern Guangdong, brewing Niangjiu wine is one of the most important customs on this day. This custom has been passed down for thousands of years and is still popular today. Early in the morning on the winter solstice, in Meixi Town, Meixian County, green smoke curled up in front of and behind the houses, and many villagers were busy brewing Hakka wine at home. Hakka people believe that the water at the winter solstice has the most mellow taste, and the wine brewed with it can be stored for a long time and will be sweet and rejuvenating. Customs of Guangdong Winter Solstice 2

1. Eating glutinous rice balls

Eating glutinous rice balls during the winter solstice is a traditional custom in my country, especially popular in Guangdong. There is a saying among the people that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older". Eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice in Guangzhou is also called glutinous rice balls, and eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "winter solstice dumplings". According to records from the Qing Dynasty, people in Jiangnan used glutinous rice flour to make dough, and stuffed it with essence, meat, apples, bean paste, shredded radish, etc.

2. Feeding consumption

The consumption recorded in ancient books is an evil ghost. "Wherever it goes, people lose property and storehouses become empty." Therefore, as the story of Zhong Kui spread in the Tang Dynasty, the folk customs of zhaoxu (using lamps to shine), dasu (beating drums to frighten), and feedu (giving food) to drive away waste came into being.

3. Chop chickens and kill ducks

Guangzhou people celebrate the winter solstice. Many families also make glutinous rice balls and poach chickens and kill ducks. The family sits around and has a sumptuous meal. Big meal. There are also many people in Guangzhou who choose to celebrate the festival in restaurants and reunite with their families, making every restaurant in large and small restaurants "shocky". Customs of the Winter Solstice in Guangdong 3

What to eat in the south during the Winter Solstice

1. Eating glutinous rice balls: Eating glutinous rice balls has been a custom in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the winter solstice, it is necessary to "make powder balls" or "powder glutinous rice into balls". These are also officially recorded in historical materials, which are called "During the Winter Solstice, glutinous rice balls are made into balls, called glutinous rice balls."

After making glutinous rice dumplings, you should offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and then eat glutinous rice dumplings with the whole family, which is called "increasing the age". Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice has been a tradition since ancient times.

2. Eating roast meat: On the Winter Solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of eating Winter Solstice meat with "added vegetables". Among them, roasted pork is an indispensable traditional food on the Cantonese table during the Winter Solstice. While worshiping their ancestors, the whole family prepares some bacon and sausages for a meal to pray for good luck in the coming year.

3. Eat rice cakes: rice cakes, rice cakes, year after year. Eating rice cakes is to ask for a fortune that "gets better every year." Since the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Hangzhou people have eaten rice cakes on the winter solstice. The most extreme way to eat rice cakes I have ever heard is to eat three meals a day without missing a meal. You can eat rice cakes in different ways: in the morning, you eat steamed rice cakes mixed with sesame powder and sugar, and at noon, you eat winter vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, and shredded pork. Fried rice cake; dinner is rice cake in soup with mustard mustard, shredded pork, and shredded bamboo shoots.

Methods for health care during the Winter Solstice

Pay attention to mental health during the Winter Solstice. Because of the cold weather, some people will feel depressed because of this. Regarding these small problems, we should not let them affect us. We should try to keep our spirits smooth and optimistic, find the joy of life in our daily lives, and not worry about trivial matters. Maintain a happy mood and avoid excessive fatigue.

Be careful to keep warm during the winter solstice. Do not wear thin stockings just for the sake of beauty. This will cause great harm to your body. Keep warm when going out, especially your head and feet. Once you catch cold, it is easy to cause many diseases. Wear more clothes to avoid cold evil, especially pay attention to keeping your feet warm. Pay attention to your own daily care. Don't go out when the weather is too cold. Wait until there is some sunshine before going out. You should also pay attention to dressing when going out.

During the winter solstice health care, you should also be active in exercise. Cold exercise has a greater effect. Exercise can avoid the invasion of cold evil, but the intensity of exercise in the winter solstice does not need to be so strong. Appropriate exercise is enough, such as playing. Tai Chi and the like seek tranquility while moving, giving people a sense of calmness and leisure.