1, should be solar terms: eating mutton in the winter solstice actually adapts to the solar terms of the winter solstice. The winter solstice is the last solar term in a year. After the winter solstice, the weather becomes colder and colder, and mutton is a hot food. Therefore, eating some mutton at this time just coincides with the solar terms.
2, taste delicious: the mutton in the winter solstice season is actually the most fat time. Because sheep don't have a lot of exercise in winter, they will hoard fat, and the meat will be softer, so if you eat mutton at the winter solstice, you can eat the fresh and tender taste of mutton itself, and it is fat but not greasy, which is very good for making various tastes.
3. Welcome to the Winter Solstice Festival: In the past, everyone lived by raising pigs, sheep, cattle and other animal husbandry. When it comes to the Winter Solstice Festival, in order to celebrate, they will slaughter their own animals, and sheep are relatively fat, so killing sheep is actually to celebrate the arrival of the Winter Solstice Festival and feel the joy brought by the solar terms.
Some customs of the winter solstice
1, Sacrifice to remember ancestors: The most typical custom of the winter solstice is to sacrifice to remember ancestors. Sacrifice can show the respect and memory of ancestors to the greatest extent. Sacrificing ancestors in the days when the seasons change, as if ancestors also spent the holidays with us. In addition, there is an informal custom of "welcoming the sun" during the winter solstice.
2, eat dumplings: eating dumplings is not exclusive to the Dragon Boat Festival, and the traditional custom of eating dumplings on the Winter Solstice Festival has been established as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, glutinous rice balls are an essential food in the winter solstice, which means "reunion" and "perfection". Eating glutinous rice balls in the winter solstice symbolizes family harmony and auspiciousness.