On the winter solstice, three meals a day, the table will have different flavors of rice cakes. There are many different kinds of rice cakes, such as rice cake with shredded meat, rice cake with sesame, rice cake with ham, and so on.
Zhejiang Shaoxing people winter solstice winter customs are also different. Shaoxing people make wine at home, which starts on the day of the east solstice. Brewing down the tank, known as "winter wine", winter solstice wine and thus not cloudy, there is a light fragrance. The winter solstice wine is used as a gift for family and friends.
In Zhejiang, the night of the winter solstice, there is the custom of eating glutinous rice with red beans. There is the custom of the whole family getting together *** to eat red beans and glutinous rice. Winter solstice this day, the beginning of health supplementation, for some of the frail and sickly people is more so, the elderly for warmth. Adzuki bean glutinous rice has blood nourishing effect, in line with the warm tonic.
Speaking of Hangzhou people after the winter solstice winter customs, is that families from this day to start busy, to prepare for the New Year. Curing and drying ham, bacon, sausage, duck, etc., for the New Year's family reunion table rich dishes to prepare.