"Evening wind a little anxious, the winter solstice line late", in the blink of an eye we have ushered in the winter solstice, one of the four eight sections. It is said that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and a small reunion is enough to show the importance of the winter solstice in folklore. Before the winter solstice is not very cold, after the winter solstice coincides with the folk began to "count nine" to calculate the cold days, which also marks that we are about to enter one of the coldest period of the year.

The Chinese people like to keep fit according to the season, and whenever a season comes, they will adjust their diet according to the specific conditions, hoping that their families will be safe and healthy, and the days are getting better and better. On the winter solstice, there are a lot of folklore, such as drawing nine, ancestor worship, soil preparation for seedlings. Winter solstice, rich or poor, remember to "throw 4 things to eat 4 things", meaning good luck and wealth. Together to see what exactly is referred to, do you know?

Throw away the broken rice bowls

The old generation said that broken rice bowls can not be left at home, stay at home is to broken , inauspicious. Because we go to work, go to plow none for a richer life. If the hands of the rice bowl has a gap or crack, this also means to break the wealth, so hurry to throw it.

Throw away the old and broken shoes

Now living conditions are good, but many people advocate frugal life, which is a commendable behavior. The old generation said that the shoes are harmonic "evil", throw away the shoes is to get rid of the evil. We can't just throw away all the shoes, but we can pick the old ones that are broken and throw them away.

Throw away broken chairs

The old generation said that broken things are easy to break the wealth, injury, broken chairs with Yin Qi, will affect the owner's fortune. So when you see a broken chair at home, do not hesitate to throw it, do not block the arrival of good luck. There is a saying that "the old does not go the new does not come", do not want to throw.

Old clothes should be thrown away

Do not wear the old clothes to throw away, the old generation said that the clothes have the meaning of "clothes and money", and linked to the fortune, can not save and can not keep the money. In order to live a better life, it is hard to throw it. Even if you don't throw the old clothes, year-round, not to wear a few times, but also take up space, stay is meaningless.

Nian Gao

Nian Gao is also known as "Nian Nian Gao", which is a synonym of "Nian Nian Gao", symbolizing that children's height is higher than that of the previous year. In fact, it also has a layer of symbolism is the day better than a year, children and grandchildren career more than a year prosperous meaning. In the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui areas, around the winter solstice, families began to soak glutinous rice grinding paste to beat the rice cake, which is also one of the ingredients used to fight hunger in the spring.

Recommended Recipe: Sauerkraut Fried Rice Cake

Ingredients: 300 grams of rice cakes, dried chili peppers, 100 grams of sauerkraut, salt, cooking oil

① We soak the sauerkraut into the water for 10 minutes, scrubbed, and then cut into pieces.

② Rinse the rice cake, slice it and pour it into a pot. Add 1 tablespoon of oil, then add water without over, and boil on high heat. When the rice cakes are a little soft, fish them out and soak them in cold water to prevent them from sticking.

③ hot pot of cold oil, pour in dry chili, quickly stir fry the flavor. Then pour in the sauerkraut, stir fry for a while on high heat.

④ When the sauerkraut stir fry juice, pour in the rice cake, add a little salt, stir fry until the rice cake becomes soft.

Dumplings

China is a country of endless food, and the difference between the south and the north is huge. People in the south like to eat soup dumplings and noodles on this day, and people in the north like to eat dumplings. As the saying goes, "If you don't serve dumplings at the winter solstice, no one will care if you freeze your ears off." At the winter solstice, there are dumplings filled with carrots and lamb, pork and scallion dumplings, and celery and shiitake mushroom dumplings.

Recommended Recipe: Pork and Celery Dumplings

Ingredients: 300 grams of celery, 600 grams of dumpling skin, 200 grams of pork forelegs, salt, eggs, green onions, ginger, cooking oil, soy sauce

① We remove the root of the celery, celery soaked into the water and scrubbed, and then separate the leaves from the stem.

② cut the celery stems into small pieces and put them into a meat grinder to be minced. Chop the celery leaves with a knife before pouring them into the celery stems. This way, the celery has a stronger flavor, and remember to keep the leaves.

③ Peel and wash the pork front leg meat, then chop it into minced meat. Add onion and ginger water, egg, soy sauce and mix well, then add a little salt and stir.

④ Pour in the celery, add a little salt and soy sauce again and stir a little, and finally add 1 spoon of oil to lock the water.

⑤Pack the celery filling into the dumpling skin and pinch it tightly.

⑥ Boil water in a pot, add 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp oil. When there are small bubbles around the pan, drop in the dumplings. When the bottom of the dumplings are set, gently remove them with a spatula.

⑦ Add 1 tablespoon of cold water and continue to boil. Repeat three times and serve.

Roasted meat

As the saying goes, "Pickled vegetables in light snow, pickled meat in heavy snow", now it's the winter solstice, and the pickled meat can be taken out to eat. In the south, the winter solstice will also eat barbecue, including roast goose, suckling pig, barbecued pork, etc.. In the north, the temperature is already very low, we will use the cured preserved meat stewed vegetables to eat, hot to eat especially comfortable.

Recommended recipes: home-cooked pickled dukkha

Ingredients: 300 grams of bacon, 150 grams of bamboo shoots, 150 grams of kelp knots, ginger, garlic, salt, cooking wine, green onions, cooking oil

① We soak the bacon in rice water, soak for 10 minutes, scrub it clean and then pour it into the pot. Add cooking wine, green onion knots, ginger slices to deodorize, and then pour in no more. When the water boils and there is a lot of floating foam on the surface of the pot, fish out the bacon and rinse it with warm water. Cut the bacon slightly thicker pieces of spare.

② Thousand knots washed clean, bamboo shoots scrubbed clean into the pot blanch a little, and then cut into small pieces.

③ hot pot cold oil (a little oil), pour bacon dry stirring for a while. When the bacon surface fat out, pour in cooking wine, green onions, ginger quickly stir fry for a while.

④ Pour boiling water over the bacon, boil over high heat, and then add bamboo shoots and zhangzhang knots to cook together.

⑤ After boiling again, pour them into a casserole dish and simmer on medium-low heat for 25-35 minutes before serving.

Soup dumplings

It is said that the winter solstice is as big as the New Year, and there is a small reunion on the earth, and the soup dumplings have the symbol of reunion, so many regions will eat soup dumplings on this day. The filling of the dumplings is also varied, there are fresh meat and fruit filling, the most classic or black sesame brown sugar filling, sweet and soft.

Home version of the dumplings

Ingredients: glutinous rice flour, black sesame seeds, brown sugar

① We add a little bit of water to the glutinous rice flour, mix it into a dough, and let it rise for 30-60 minutes.

② Pour the black sesame seeds into the pot and stir-fry constantly over medium-low heat. When you hear the sound of sesame seeds cracking, pour it out. When the sesame seeds are cooled and loaded into the wall-breaker, beat into powder. Then pour the brown sugar into the sesame seeds and mix.

③ Divide the glutinous rice dough into small doses of similar size, then wrap the black sesame filling into it and ball it up.

④ Boil water in a pot, and when there are many small bubbles around the pot, pour in the dumplings. Simmer the dumplings for 1 minute before serving.

Conclusion: tomorrow is the winter solstice, remember to "throw 4 things to eat 4 kinds of", in order to the family's health, auspiciousness and wealth, the old generation of words can not be forgotten. I am a mom private room seven seven eight eight, a like to pound the meal of the working class. Every day around the stove, pots and pans and work like, tired and happy. I will do my best to share my family's three meals and four seasons, to give you a reference, but also to record my lost youth, but also look forward to communicating with you.

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