Southerners eat and drink on the winter solstice night, make wine in winter, eat warm pots, eat stewed vegetables, eat winter solstice dumplings, eat mutton soup and eat dumplings.

1, drink zero and copy winter wine

Zero-copy winter wine is loose wine with short shelf life, but more obvious sweetness and fragrance, and affordable. Although winter brewing has a word "wine" beside it, the degree is low, only 2-4 degrees. With a faint smell of glutinous rice and faint sweet-scented osmanthus, taking a sip of winter brewing, the winter solstice night of southerners is complete.

2. Eat a warm pot

Southerners need a warm pot for their winter solstice dinner. When a family gathers together, what they eat is the atmosphere. Fish and vegetables are put into a pot, which is steaming while eating, bringing warmth and spring in the cold winter.

3. Eat pot-stewed vegetables

During the winter solstice, in addition to making wine in winter, there are old-fashioned braised dishes that are deeply loved by southerners. Sheep cakes, pig ears, barbecued pork, sauced duck, salted chicken and beef, all kinds of pot-stewed food shops will queue up on the eve of the winter solstice. Accompanied by winter wine, a delicious and salty stewed mutton cake, and a table full of hot-fried cold dishes and vegetarian dishes, this is the high standard configuration of winter solstice night.

4. Eat the Winter Solstice Group

The winter solstice dumplings should be kneaded with steamed glutinous rice flour, which is larger than the dumplings, and it is sweet and salty. Usually, the sweet one is lard bean paste, and the salty one is shredded radish or minced meat.

5. Eat mutton soup

In winter, Suzhou people have a unique preference for mutton. White-boiled mutton soup, with milky white as jade, glutinous Chinese cabbage, tough vermicelli and green garlic sprouts, is most suitable for cold weather.

6. Tangyuan

"Every family beats rice to make dumplings, knowing that it is the winter solstice of the Ming Dynasty." For southerners, eating dumplings on the winter solstice has long been a deep-rooted custom. The "round" of glutinous rice balls means reunion and perfection. Eating glutinous rice balls on the winter solstice is more symbolic of family harmony and auspiciousness for southerners.