Quanzhou custom has "winter festival does not go home no ancestor" said, so those who go out, will go home as far as possible for the festival to visit their ancestors. In the morning of the Winter Festival, sweet pill soup is cooked to honor the ancestors, and then the family takes sweet pill soup for breakfast. Some people also leave a few grains of rice pills after the meal, sticking on the door, said "to the God of the door". Quanzhou people eat pills, said the Lantern Festival pills for the "head pills (round)", the Winter Festival for the "tail pills (round)", so that the head and tail are round, means that the whole family throughout the year, from beginning to end of all complete.
Xiamen people can be said to be obsessed with duck, eating duck all year round, salt duck, duck, roast duck, duck stewed four things, winter solstice to eat ginger duck. Ginger mother duck to red-faced duck as raw materials, with sesame oil will be fried duck meat, and then add the old ginger (ginger mother) and rice wine and other stewed and become, and has a detoxification of the liver and lungs, nourishing the stomach and spleen, soothing the tendons and activate the blood, to dispel the cold and phlegm and other efficacy, especially nourishing. There are fewer home-made ginger ducks, so as soon as the winter solstice arrives, many people start lining up to buy them.
Fuzhou people rub "rice time" (is a word, xi fourth tone), the table on the bamboo basket, the basket in the red orange grains, red chopsticks, a pair of paper flowers, a pair. Rub "rice time" also known as "rub round", meaning reunion; "rice time" is a symbol of "luck". Rub "rice time" by the family sitting around the round table, rubbing "rice time", while singing.
The custom in Zhangzhou is to eat winter solstice sugar dumplings. On the eve of the festival, every family rolls balls of glutinous rice into flour and places them on a bamboo sieve. Early the next morning into the brown sugar pot to cook, as a holiday breakfast. In the old days, farmers also went to the ancestral shrine to worship their ancestors on this day.
As the weather gets colder, the "old Longyan" people would go to the mountains to pick ramie or mugwort and crush it, then knead it with glutinous rice flour to make a light green dough, which would be used as the skin for the "ghost cakes. As for the filling, it is usually made with plums, dried bamboo shoots, and shiitake mushrooms, seasoned with pork, and stir-fried. When the smell of grass leaves wafts out of the steamer lid and the "green coat" is slightly crystal clear, you can take out a bite, and the skin is sticky and soft, and the filling is oily with the smell of grass leaves, which makes it feel refreshing.
Sha Xian people's soup dumplings, soup like with bamboo shoots, cilantro and other ingredients. Because of Shaxian's proximity to Sanming City, some customs have gradually disappeared, and some traditional customs, such as dragon and lion dances, can only be seen in the countryside.
The winter solstice in the rural areas of Jiangle, there are bean flour, black sesame and brown sugar mixed with patties to entertain the guests of the custom, in order to show good luck, and then dipped in bean flour, black sesame, brown sugar and other preparations of the condiments, eat up the pliable and fresh and slippery, sweet and savory.
The Hakka people call the winter solstice the "Winter Festival" and the "Asian Festival". There is a folk saying in Ninghua: "Winter solstice is long and short, summer solstice is short and long." So the winter solstice they will make up and brew rice wine, make preserved meat, etc., and the townspeople to make up for the first choice is the dog meat, the day they mostly buy small dogs slaughtered, with dog meat with some such as angelica, ginseng, ripened earth, astragalus, ginseng and other blood tonic and tonic herbal simmering or stewed to consume, and must be taken in the morning. There are also some townspeople take pig's feet, rooster, etc. with tonic stewed food.