2. The day before the winter solstice, Ningbo people generally don't go out. On the morning of the winter solstice, the whole family has the custom of eating turnip baked rice cakes. The kohlrabi fragrance has become a unique rural food in Ningbo Winter Solstice Festival, which makes people unforgettable. On the eve of the winter solstice, every family bakes kohlrabi, and the fire in the big stove is booming. Wash the kohlrabi, peel and cut into pieces, and don't waste the leaves. Cut off the potholes on the surface and put them in a wok. The pieces should be cut a little thicker, otherwise they will easily boil and the chopsticks will not hold. Put the kohlrabi in first, then enlarge the rice cake, turn it over, put some soy sauce, then cover the burning wood chips with grass ash, burn them all night, cook them with slow fire, and stew the kohlrabi in the wok all night. The next morning, when the water will boil dry, add sugar and salt, then pour a layer of vegetable oil into the wok, and the fragrant turnip baked rice cake will be done!
3. Tangguo Ningbo Tangyuan is famous, but what is more important to Ningbo people is a kind of stuffing-free glutinous rice food called "Tangguo". Tangguo is also kneaded with glutinous rice, and its shape can be as big as glutinous rice balls, and as small as beads or smaller. "I am one year older after eating soup." There is a "winter solstice worship" in Ningbo. According to the custom of old Ningbo, a bowl of sweet sweet potato soup is also eaten on the morning of the winter solstice, which means to "turn over" all the previous bad luck.
4, wine dumplings Ningbo people want to eat "wine dumplings" on the winter solstice, that is, use small grains of soup to cook the distiller's grains brewed from late rice, spread some starch, put some red and green silk, or beat egg flowers, and some can also cut some apples. The practice is similar.
5, red bean porridge Ningbo nursery rhymes: "Hey, sell sugar porridge. Three catties of walnuts and four catties of shells, eat the meat and return the shells. Uncle Zhang asked Nong for a kitten and yellow dog. " There should be many Ningbo people who have heard this nursery rhyme, but few people know that this "sugar porridge" is red bean porridge. This kind of red bean porridge is particularly delicate because red beans and porridge are made separately. Red beans are ground into bean paste and poured on rice congee, like red clouds covered with snow, with good color, fragrance and taste.
In the past, there was a kind of apparatus selling sugar porridge in Ningbo called "camel's shoulder", which could put all the cookers, dishes and food on the burden. The vendor knocked on the bamboo sticks while carrying a load, making a "tattoo" sound. When the children heard the sound, they knew that the "sugar porridge seller" was coming. Eating red bean porridge is sweet but not sticky, thin but not thin, and extremely refreshing. In Ningbo, the custom of the whole family getting together on the winter solstice night and eating red bean porridge has been passed down to this day.
This is what I know about the custom of celebrating the winter solstice in Ningbo. What are the customs in your hometown?