The customary activities of the winter festival include rituals, making up for the winter, eating dumplings, brewing yellow wine, and pounding "jiao dong mochi", etc.

1, rituals?

1, rituals?

Lidong in ancient society is "four times eight sections", is a very important festival, in some parts of our country have ancestor worship, drinking feasts, divining age and other customs, to seasonal delicacies to the ancestral spirit of the sacrifice, in order to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of human children and grandchildren, and pray to heaven to give the next year of abundance.

2, make up winter?

Proverb "winter fill the winter, fill the mouth empty", farmers in ancient times worked for a year, the use of winter this day to rest, by the way, to reward the family's hard work. They will be in the winter on this day to kill chickens and slaughter sheep or other nutrients to supplement.

3, eat dumplings?

On the day of winter, all kinds of dumplings are sold very hot. First, the day of winter to improve life, and "delicious but dumplings"; secondly, dumplings are derived from the "time of the hand over the son," said the winter is the intersection of the fall and winter seasons, so the "hand over" of the son of the time can not be eaten without dumplings. The dumplings can't be left out of the meal.

4, brewing yellow wine?

Brewing yellow wine on the day of winter is a traditional Shaoxing winemaking custom. In winter, the water body is clear and cold, the temperature is low, can effectively inhibit the breeding of bacteria, and can make the wine in the low-temperature fermentation process for a long time to form a good flavor, is the most suitable season for winemaking fermentation. Therefore, the Shaoxing people call the period from the beginning of winter to the beginning of spring the most suitable time for making yellow wine "winter brewing", praying for the well-being of the people.

5. Pounding the "winter rice cake".

On this day, villagers in Zhangzhou celebrate a good harvest by pounding a "winter rice cake". After steaming the glutinous rice and pouring it into the stone mortar, pound it to make it tough and sticky, pull it into the size of a ping-pong ball, and knead it carefully into a ball; peanut rice is fried to make it fragrant, and then it is ground finely and mixed with sugar.

The mochi is rolled in sugar and peanut flour and placed in a large bowl. When you eat it, use chopsticks to string a few pieces together, just like a rattle, so it is also called "rattle mochi". When the mochi is ready, it is necessary to pay homage to the God of the land and thank him for his generosity.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia. Baidu encyclopedia - Ridong