8 local delicacies during the winter solstice: 1. Eating dumplings in the north.

"If you don't bring dumpling bowls during the Winter Solstice, your ears will freeze off and no one will care." In northern China, there is a custom of eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice.

On this day every year, whether rich or poor, dumplings are an essential holiday meal.

According to legend, this custom is to remember the kindness of Zhang Zhongjing, the "Medical Saint", with his "Quhan Jiao Er Decoction".

2. Eat glutinous rice balls in the south.

There is an ancient poem that goes: "Every family pounded rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it was the winter solstice in the Ming Dynasty." Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is a traditional custom in my country, especially popular in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a saying among the people that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older."

Tangyuan can be used to worship ancestors, and can also be used to give to relatives and friends, and also represents the meaning of reunion.

3. Sichuan mutton soup.

According to legend, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, ate the mutton cooked by Fan Kuai on the winter solstice. He thought it tasted particularly delicious and was full of praise.

Since then, the folk custom of eating mutton during the winter solstice has been formed in order to have a good omen in the coming year.

Nowadays, every family in Sichuan, including ours in Guangyuan, has to drink mutton soup during the winter solstice.

4. Red bean and glutinous rice.

According to legend, there was an untalented man of the Gong clan of the Han Dynasty who committed many evil deeds and died on the winter solstice. After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued to harm the people.

However, this plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off plague ghosts and prevent disasters and diseases.

5. Taiwanese glutinous cake.

Taiwan, our country, still preserves the tradition of using nine-layer cakes to worship ancestors during the Winter Solstice.

After the ceremony, a grand banquet will be held to entertain the clan members who come to worship their ancestors.

Everyone had a good time drinking and connecting with each other after long separation.

The Winter Solstice Festival has been passed down from generation to generation in Taiwan to show that one's "roots" are not forgotten. 6. Suzhou Brewing.

There is a saying in the Suzhou area: "Winter Solstice is like the New Year."

Traditionally, Gusu people drink winter wine on the night of the winter solstice. This is a kind of rice wine brewed with sweet-scented osmanthus and has a pleasant aroma.

While drinking winter wine, it will also be served with various braised dishes such as braised beef and braised mutton.

In the cold winter, winter wine can not only ward off the cold, but also express the good wishes of Suzhou people for life.

7. Zhejiang mochi.

Mochi is a specialty of Zhejiang and Jiangxi and a traditional snack of Fujian people.

Its raw materials are fine glutinous rice, lard, sesame seeds, peanut kernels, rock sugar, etc.

Mochi is sweet and delicious, and it resists hunger after eating. It has a sweet and smooth texture, and is soft, tough and slightly icy.

The finished product is bright white in color, smooth, tough and transparent.

8. Beijing eats chaos.

"Yanjing Chronicles" says: "The shape of husband's wonton is like a chicken egg, which is quite similar to the chaos of heaven and earth, so it is eaten during the winter solstice." In fact, "wonton" and "chaos" are homophonic, so people extend the idea of ??eating wonton.

To break the chaos and open up the world.

Later generations no longer explained its original meaning, and only spread the proverb "Winter Solstice Wonton and Summer Solstice Noodles", treating it simply as a seasonal diet.