Guangdong people eat glutinous rice balls, steamed muffins, water olives, cooking stoves and glutinous rice chicken during the winter solstice.

1. Tangyuan

Eating Tangyuan is a traditional custom on the winter solstice, and it is also popular in Guangzhou. In addition to eating glutinous rice balls, Guangzhou people are also used to eating glutinous rice on the winter solstice. Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice symbolizes family reunion, family harmony and auspiciousness. Glutinous rice means warmth, and it is "warm" all over the body. With pork belly, squid, shrimp and other ingredients, a bowl of rice can bear the richness of a whole winter.

2. Steamed muffins

In Foshan, on the day of the winter solstice, every household kills chickens early in the morning to prepare dishes, worships ancestors with fruits and steamed muffins. "muffin" is a kind of cake made of fermented rice flour. After steaming, there are many fine holes, and the whole cake will be fluffy. Sponge cakes have good intentions, and they are generally used to set dishes together to worship ancestors on the day of the winter solstice, so eating "steamed sponge cakes" on the winter solstice is one of the essential links for Foshan people to celebrate the winter solstice.

3. Shuilan

Zhongshan Xiaolan has the custom of eating Shuilan on the winter solstice. Xiaolan's "dumpling" is not round, like an olive, so it is called Shuilan. In fact, it is a glutinous rice dumpling filled with chrysanthemum meat. The stuffing is usually lotus seed paste or mung bean paste, and some chrysanthemum meat is added. Water olive is a kind of seasonal food, which makes you feel warm all over, implying good health.

4. Edge-burning stove

Shunde people also say that "sitting around edge-burning stove to spend the winter solstice". On the winter solstice, families get together and have a feast around the stove. Cook a pot of chicken soup as the base, or add salt water and white rice to cook a pot of fine porridge with chicken, beef, fish and all kinds of vegetables. Everyone is talking about the personnel and things of the old year around the steaming stove. The moral of eating a side stove: under the warm light, it is the whisper of family members, and the family stays together safely!

5. glutinous rice chicken

glutinous rice chicken is one of the traditional foods in Guangdong during the winter solstice, and it is also a very nutritious food. Glutinous rice chicken is made of glutinous rice and chicken. It tastes soft and delicious. In Guangdong, people like to eat glutinous rice chicken on the winter solstice, which means reunion and family harmony.