1, eat Baba
According to the tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the winter solstice will be a feast, and there are many people involved, which is very grand. In Yunnan, there is also the custom of eating Ciba on the winter solstice. And whenever ancestor worship or major festivals, or weddings and funerals, we should make Ciba. Therefore, in our hometown, Ciba is called "Da Ci", and now the common dumplings are called "Xiao Ci" with some disdain.
2, eat sweet pills
According to legend, the custom of "drinking wine and dishes, paying tribute to aged person" has existed in the Winter Solstice of Han Dynasty. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has been popular to eat sweet pills. Sweet pill is not only a sweet soup made of glutinous rice flour and water-rubbed pills, but also the most representative food on the winter solstice. Before the winter solstice, farmers' housewives made glutinous rice flour in succession (nowadays, it is mostly rolled mechanically), and some exchanged needed goods as gifts for relatives and friends. On the morning of the winter solstice, adults and children at home often sit around a bamboo gourd or a big plate, each extracting a powder ball made by mixing glutinous rice flour and water beforehand, and rubbing it into marbles with two hands, which are called "Winter Solstice Pills". "Winter Solstice Pill" symbolizes the fullness of the whole family at the end of the year. Some "Winter Solstice Pills" are also filled with orange cake, melon candy and bean paste, commonly known as "duck mother's cup", and "Winter Solstice Pills" can be rubbed in different sizes at will, which is a good sign for "Gongsun Pills". In Chaoshan, there is a folk proverb "Winter Solstice Pill, the Chinese New Year is celebrated as soon as it is eaten", commonly known as "adding the year", which means that although the year has not passed, everyone has added one year.
3, eat dumplings
Eating glutinous rice balls has been established in the Ming and Qing dynasties. On the winter solstice, it is necessary to "make rice balls" or "make glutinous rice balls". These are also officially recorded in historical materials, which are called "Winter Solstice, powdered glutinous rice is a pill, named' Tangyuan'". After making dumplings, you should worship the gods and ancestors, and then eat them around the family, which is called "adding years." Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is ancient. Eating glutinous rice balls is a traditional custom of the winter solstice, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. "Tangyuan" is an essential food in the winter solstice, and it is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour. "Round" means "reunion" and "perfection", and eating tangyuan in the winter solstice is also called "winter solstice group". There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older".
4, eat roasted meat
On the winter solstice, most Cantonese people have the custom of "adding vegetables" to eat winter solstice meat. Among them, roasted meat is an indispensable traditional food on the table of Guangdong people during the winter solstice. The whole family prepares some bacon and sausage to eat after offering sacrifices to their ancestors, so as to pray for coming to lucky strike next year. Bacon is no longer just sausages, but also preserved fish, bacon, preserved duck, preserved chicken, etc. It is easy to capture people's heart of constantly pursuing delicious food with a pot of oily and delicious bacon clay pot rice.
5, eat nine layers of cake
Taiwan Province also preserves the tradition of worshipping ancestors with nine-layer cakes on the winter solstice. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals symbolizing good luck and good luck, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to worship ancestors to show that they do not forget their ancestors. It is also common in Taiwan Province to "make up for winter" in the winter festival. On the day before the Winter Festival, after dinner, families rub circles in the hall. In ancient times, it is forbidden to say ominous words when rubbing circles. After rubbing round dumplings, you should make up for winter. Rice cakes are one of the supplements. Sweet rice cakes should be added with dried longan meat. Salted rice cakes include mutton cakes and red rice cakes. There are also eight treasures stewed with male muscovy ducks, cocks and soft-shelled turtles.
6, eat rice cakes
New year's cake, new year's cake. Eating rice cakes is to win a "higher every year" lottery. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, people in Hangzhou always eat rice cakes on the winter solstice. The most extreme way to eat is to eat three meals a day without missing a meal. In the morning, we eat steamed rice cakes with sesame powder and white sugar, and at noon, we eat fried rice cakes with oil and winter vegetables, winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. Dinner is rice cake with mustard, shredded pork and shredded bamboo shoots soup.
7, eat red bean glutinous rice
In the Jiangnan water town of our country, it is a custom for the whole family to get together and eat red beans and glutinous rice on the night of the winter solstice. According to legend, * * * Gong's was a gifted scholar who did many evils and died on the winter solstice. After his death, he became an epidemic ghost and continued to harm the people. However, this epidemic ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook red beans and glutinous rice on the winter solstice to ward off the epidemic ghost and prevent disasters.