The food that Zhejiang people eat on the winter solstice are: soup dumplings, sweet potato soup fruits, roasted rice cakes with dashi, wine stuffed dumplings, and frozen mutton.

1, soup dumplings

The winter solstice lively, mostly reflected in the "eat". Ningbo folk say, "Eat the soup ball a year older," eating soup ball has been the winter solstice custom prevalent in Ningbo, the winter solstice eat soup ball is also known as "winter solstice ball". Eating soup dumplings on the winter solstice symbolizes reunion, success, harmony and good fortune.

2, sweet potato soup fruit

The sweet potato "pan" and "turn" homophonic, meaning that the past year's bad luck are turned over; and soup fruit is also known as the "round". "round", take its reunion, the meaning of success. When some people make sweet potato soup fruit, they also add some wine in it.

3, dashi baked rice cake

The day before the winter solstice, Ningbo people generally do not go out, the winter solstice festival early in the morning the whole family ate dashi baked rice cake custom. Roasted rice cake with dashi has become a unique countryside delicacy of the winter solstice in Ningbo, which is unforgettable.

The key to the winter solstice rice cake is to keep the stove fire burning on the night of the winter solstice, and all the families should burn it to a "roaring sound", so that the fire can be passed on from one fire to another, and the days of the people's red-hot days are the most realistic and basic expectations, while the rice cake signifies "high year after year".

4, wine with rounds

Wine with rounds with high-quality white glutinous rice as raw materials, after the water immersion water milling processed into glutinous rice flour, water milled glutinous rice flour rolled into small rounds to be used. After steaming the above white glutinous rice, mixed with a certain proportion of yeast, a few days into the flavorful, sweet and sticky taste of wine. Boil water into the small round, until it floats to the surface, and then add wine, sugar and egg syrup, stirring thickening, into the bowl sprinkled with sugar cinnamon that is.

5, frozen lamb

In the winter solstice this day, Yuyao Siamen and other places are also popular to eat "frozen lamb", that is, to buy fresh lamb, cut into pieces, into the soy sauce, fennel and other seasonings, cooked over a high fire into a pot, to be cooled into the lamb frozen! "Frozen lamb", dinner, clip a piece of "frozen lamb" into the full of rice, fresh and fragrant, people will remember.