What to eat on the winter solstice?
The winter solstice is a great opportunity for health preservation, mainly because "Qi begins at the winter solstice". Because from the beginning of winter, life activities began to turn from decline to prosperity and from static rotation. At this time, scientific health preservation helps to ensure vigorous energy and prevent premature aging, so as to achieve the purpose of prolonging life. During the winter solstice, the diet should be diversified, and the grains, fruits, meat and vegetables should be reasonably matched, and high-calcium foods should be appropriately selected.
1. Rolling the Round
People in Taizhou, Zhejiang enjoy delicious food. The winter solstice is an important solar term in a year. To make some special dishes and food on this day, we should first pay homage to our ancestors and pray that they will bless the whole family with all the peace and happiness in the coming year. Then the whole family got together happily to drink and eat vegetables.
Among them, it is an old tradition in Taizhou to eat "Winter Solstice Round" (also called hard round and rough round), which means roundness and reunion.
Rolling round is the highlight of the winter solstice, and "round" means "reunion" and "perfection". Compared with the dumplings eaten on weekdays, the winter solstice round of Linhai people is not only rich in content, different in forms, but also meaningful. Rolling round is made of glutinous rice flour. First, the glutinous rice flour and warm water are kneaded into dough, and then the dough is picked into vinegar dish-sized balls. After being cooked, they are rolled and mixed in bean curd powder. Because this process is called "rolling" in the dialect near the sea, the winter solstice round is named "rolling round", while the bean curd powder is fried with soybeans and ground into powder, and then mixed with brown sugar. It tastes sweet and rich, and with the delicate glutinous rice round, it makes people have a great appetite. Sandwiched with a rolled round covered with bean powder, I took a bite while it was hot. It was delicious, sweet, warm and soft, and a taste of happiness came to my mind. In addition to the classic sweet dumplings, there are also many families who like salty winter solstice dumplings. Salty dumplings are stuffed with glutinous rice balls, which are similar to pork, dried tofu, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, carrots and white radishes. They can be steamed and boiled, fresh and juicy, and have another taste.
2. Mazi
Mazi is a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, and it is also a traditional snack of Fujian people and a sacrifice of Fujian people. It is suitable for steaming, frying, roasting and sand frying after drying in the shade.
Masi is also a famous snack in southern Fujian, among which Nan 'an Yingdu is the most famous. Its raw materials are fine glutinous rice, lard, sesame, peanut kernel and rock sugar. The crispy rice is sweet and delicious, and it is resistant to hunger after eating. It has a sweet and smooth taste, and it is soft, tough and slightly icy. The finished product is bright white, smooth, tough and transparent.
It can be said that different places have different dietary customs during the winter solstice.