The winter solstice is approaching again. Although it is a solar term, it is also one of the traditional festivals, so people pay more attention to it.

There is a folk saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the new year", which shows how much people attach great importance to this solar term.

On such an important day, of course, eating traditional food is indispensable.

The food eaten in the north and south during the winter solstice is also different.

Let me share with you the delicacies eaten during the winter solstice in the north and south.

1. Winter Solstice delicacies in the north: 1. Mutton In the north, there is a custom of eating mutton during the winter solstice. Since the temperature enters the coolest stage after the winter solstice, eating a pot of stewed mutton at this time can keep warm and nourish the body.

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Mutton is warm in nature, can ward off cold symptoms, replenish the body, and is effective in treating cold symptoms such as panting, kidney overdraft, erectile dysfunction, deficiency of qi and blood, soreness in the waist and weak legs, cold limbs and abdominal pain, and dark complexion.

In winter, when the body's qi and blood are trapped and the spleen and kidneys are deficient, it is easy to suffer from symptoms such as cold hands and feet, pale appearance, and physical fatigue. Mutton is sweet but not greasy, warm but not dry, and has been regarded as a top quality food for nourishing yin and yang for many years.

2. Wonton In Beijing, there is a saying called "Winter Solstice Wonton and Summer Solstice Noodles".

In the past, Beijing had the idea of ??eating wontons during the Winter Solstice. Ingredients such as wontons, which represent family reunion, can be said to be the first choice on the Winter Solstice dinner table.

Wonton has various names. Most areas such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang call it wonton, while Guangdong calls it wonton noodles, Hubei calls it Baomian, Jiangxi calls it Baitang, Sichuan calls it Laoma Chaoshou, and Xinjiang calls it Ququ.

It is said that during the Han Dynasty, the Huns in the northern region often harassed the borders, making the people restless.

At that time, the Huns tribe had two leaders, the Hun clan and the Tun clan, and they were very cruel.

The common people hated it so much that they used dumpling stuffing to wrap it into wontons, taking the sounds of "hun" and "tun" and calling them "wontons".

He feeds his hatred and seeks to end the war so that he can live a peaceful life.

Because wontons were first made on the winter solstice day, every household in Beijing eats wontons on the winter solstice day.

3. Dog meat: For some people with weak constitutions and rheumatism and other diseases, it is advantageous to eat more dog meat during the cold winter.

However, it is not suitable to blindly follow the trend of eating dog meat to prevent eating rabies meat and contracting the rabies virus.

Dog meat is a hot food, so it is not suitable to eat too much at one time.

People suffering from dry cough, fever, cold, fever, diarrhea, internal heat due to yin deficiency and other sexually transmitted diseases other than yin deficiency and internal heat are not suitable to take it.

4. Dumplings During the winter solstice solar term among the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, there is a folk custom of eating dumplings in North my country.

There are many folk stories about eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice, and the core idea comes from Zhang Zhongjing.

2. Winter Solstice delicacies in the South: 1. Tangyuan. Since the Song Dynasty, Chinese people have eaten glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival.

After the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, people in Jiangnan also used dumplings to worship their ancestors and send gifts to the Kitchen God during the winter solstice.

Gu Lu recorded in Volume 11 of "Qing Jia Lu" (1830): "Bihu is ground into powder and made into a ball, with sugar, meat, beans, beans, and shredded radish as fillings. In order to offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God, the food is given to the Kitchen God first and as a gift.

, named 'Winter Solstice Solar Group'".

Among them, glutinous rice balls are also divided into sizes. Large ones with fillings are called rice dumplings, which are offered as a tribute to ancestors at night. Small rice dumplings without filling are called tributes to gods in the morning.

2. On the day of the Winter Solstice solar term, Cantonese-style roasted pork, most Cantonese people have the custom of "putting meat on it" and eating winter solstice meat.

Among them, Cantonese-style barbecue is an indispensable traditional food on the dinner table of Cantonese people during the Winter Solstice.

In addition to worshiping their ancestors, the family prepares some sausages and bacon for a meal in advance to pray for good luck next year.

Bacon is no longer just sausage, but also bacon, sausage, bacon, duck, chicken, etc. are also brought to the dining table. The oily and hot claypot rice with preserved meat also easily captures everyone’s pursuit of perfection.

Delicious food with heart.

3. Sweet pills are popular in the Han Dynasty. During the winter solstice, there has been a custom of "having wine and food to pay homage to the masters and elders".

From the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it has been a trendy custom to eat sweet pills.

Sweet balls are a sweet soup made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and rolling balls into water. It is a very symbolic food during the Winter Solstice.

Before the winter solstice, housewives in farmyards pound rice noodles one after another (nowadays, most of them are rolled by mechanical equipment), and some of them are given to relatives and friends for mutual benefit.

Early in the morning on the day of the Winter Solstice, adults and children in the family usually sit around a bamboo gourd or a large vegetable plate. They take a dough ball that has been kneaded with rice flour and water, and knead it into marble-like meatballs with their hands, which are called "Winter Solstice Balls".

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"Winter Solstice Solar Pills" represents the completeness of the family at the end of the year.

Some "Winter Solstice Solar Pills" are also filled with orange cake, melon sugar, bean paste, etc., and are also known as "Duck Mother Pills". "Winter Solstice Solar Pills" can be rolled into different sizes, good and bad, and "Gongsun Pills" are better.

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There is a folk proverb in Chaoshan, Guangdong, "Winter Solstice Solar Pills, one meal will celebrate the Spring Festival", also known as "Tian Sui", which means that although the New Year has not yet passed, everyone has already added one year old.

4. Nine-layer cake Taiwan also has the tradition of using nine-layer cake to worship ancestors during the winter solstice. Rice flour is used to knead chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals that represent good luck, good luck, fortune, longevity and joy, and then

It is steamed in layers in a steamer and used to worship ancestors to show that the ancestors have not been forgotten.