1. Rice dumplings made with fermented rice. According to the custom of old Ningbo, dumplings are one of the must-eat delicacies during the winter solstice.
Niuniangyuanzi is also a famous snack in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is a traditional Chinese snack that every family makes to entertain guests. It is also a popular dessert with a high order rate at hotel banquets.
Jiunong Yuanzi is made from high-quality white glutinous rice, which is soaked in water and milled into glutinous rice flour. The water-milled glutinous rice flour is rolled into small balls for later use.
The above-mentioned white glutinous rice is steamed and mixed with yeast in a certain proportion. After a few days, it becomes fragrant, sweet and glutinous rice wine.
Boil the water, add the small dumplings, wait until they float to the surface, then add fermented rice wine, sugar and egg slurry, mix well to thicken the rice, put it into a bowl and sprinkle with sugar and osmanthus flowers. Serve.
3. Frozen mutton. In addition to eating fermented rice dumplings, roasted rice cakes with kohlrabi, and sweet potato soup during the winter solstice, Ningbo people also eat "frozen mutton" in Yuyao Simen and other places during the winter solstice. That is, they buy fresh mutton and cut it into pieces.
After the mutton is cooked, add soy sauce, fennel and other seasonings, cook over high heat and put it into a basin. After the mutton cools, freeze it into "frozen mutton". When eating, put a piece of "frozen mutton" into a full bowl of rice. It will be delicious and fragrant.
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3. Sweet potato soup and fruit soup are a must-eat food for Ningbo people during the winter solstice.
Ningbo people have a saying that "eating Tang Guo makes you one year older".
Tangguo is similar to glutinous rice balls, both meaning "reunion" and "completeness", but Tangguo is smaller and has no filling inside.
"Fan" and "fan" have the same pronunciation. In the understanding of Ningbo people, eating sweet potatoes during the winter solstice means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year.
Extended information: Many places in southern my country celebrate the winter solstice.
The Winter Solstice is a traditional festival for worshiping heaven and ancestors. It is one of the eight festivals of the year. On this day, people pay tribute to gods and worship ancestors.
There is a saying that goes, "The winter festival is as big as the New Year, and there will be no ancestors if you don't return." People who go out must rush home during the winter solstice to worship their ancestors no matter what.
Due to different etiquette and customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship also vary.
After the ceremony to honor the gods and worship the ancestors, a big banquet is usually held to entertain the clan members who came to worship the ancestors. Everyone has a happy drink and keeps in touch with each other after a long separation.
In many places, the winter solstice is regarded as the reunion festival.
In many areas of northern my country, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year.
A proverb goes: "On October 1st, when the winter solstice arrives, every household eats dumplings." People in northern my country eat dumplings on this day because dumplings have the meaning of "removing the cold." There is still a folk saying that "if you don't carry the dumpling bowl during the winter solstice, your ears will freeze off." No one cares" folk proverb.