1, glutinous dumplings
From the Song Dynasty, people in China ate glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangnan people also used glutinous rice balls to worship their ancestors and stoves on the winter solstice. Gu Lu recorded in Volume 11 of Qing Jia Lu (1830): "Bihu grinds flour into a ball, and it is called the Winter Solstice Ball, with sugar, meat, cowpea paste and shredded reed as stuffing, which is the product of offering sacrifices to the stove first and feeding it."
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Red bean glutinous rice
In Jiangnan water town, there is a custom that the whole family get together on beginning of winter night to eat red beans and glutinous rice. According to legend, there was a man named * * * Gong's. His son was incompetent and evil, and he 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 bean rice on the winter solstice.
5. Chestnut fried rice
In Shantou, every solar term pays attention to eating different seasonal foods, and chestnut fried rice is a traditional way to eat.