According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the solstice in winter is a feast, and many people participate in it, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba from the winter solstice. And whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, we should make Ciba. So in our hometown, Ciba is called "Big Ciba", and now jiaozi is called "Little Ciba" with a little disdain.
Wash the glutinous rice before making, steam it in an electric rice cooker, and then pour it into a stone mortar quickly while it is hot. Two or three people took a big wooden hammer and hammered it hard, while the other kept turning it over by hand to make it beat evenly. Beat it sticky and tender, knead it quickly into small pieces by hand while it is hot, put it into the already prepared bean sugar powder and stir it a few times at will, then serve. It tastes delicious and fragrant.
2. What do you eat in the south in winter? On the winter solstice, southerners have the habit of eating sweet pills.
According to legend, there was a custom of "drinking and carrying vegetables and paying tribute to the elderly" from the winter solstice in the Han Dynasty. Sweet pills have been popular since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Sweet pills are not only sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water pills, but also the most representative food from winter to Sunday. Before the winter solstice, farmers' housewives made glutinous rice flour (now mostly rolled mechanically), and some exchanged needed items as gifts for relatives and friends.
In the morning of winter solstice, adults and children at home often sit around a bamboo gourd or a big plate. Each person extracts a powder ball made of glutinous rice flour and water in advance and rubs it into a marble with both hands, which is called "winter solstice pill". "Winter Solstice Pill" symbolizes family reunion at the end of the year. Some "winter solstice pills" also contain orange cakes, winter melon candy and bean paste, commonly known as "duck mother cup". "Winter solstice pills" can be rubbed at will in different sizes, which is a good sign of "Gongsun pills". In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb, "Winter Solstice Pills, once eaten, celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "adding new year", which means that although the new year has not passed, everyone has added a year.
3. What do you eat in the south in winter? On the winter solstice, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls in the south.
Eating glutinous rice balls was established in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the solstice of winter, it is necessary to "make dumplings" or "make dumplings". These are also officially recorded in historical materials. The history says that "on the winter solstice, powdered glutinous rice is a pill, which is called' glutinous rice balls'". After jiaozi is wrapped up, it is necessary to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and then the whole family will eat around. This is called "adding years". Therefore, it is very old to eat glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter.
Eating dumplings is a traditional custom from winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an essential food from winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is also called "the winter solstice group". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older".
4. What do you eat in the south in winter? In the winter of solstice, the south has the habit of eating barbecue.
On the solstice of winter, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat meat from the solstice of winter. Among them, barbecue is an indispensable traditional food for Cantonese people on the table from winter to Sunday. The whole family prepared some bacon and sausages to eat after paying homage to their ancestors, hoping to come to lucky strike next year.
Bacon is no longer just sausages, but also preserved fish, bacon, preserved duck, preserved chicken and so on. A pot of oily and delicious bacon clay pot rice can easily capture people's constant pursuit of food.