What do people in Taiwan Province Province usually eat on the solstice in winter?

As the treasure island of China, the winter solstice in Taiwan Province Province is also a very important festival. In Taiwan Province Province, the custom of Minnan people is still preserved in the winter solstice, but people in Taiwan Province Province will also eat their own unique solstice food in winter, so this issue of the lunar calendar.

Beautiful connection

Like the customs of Minnan people, Taiwan Province Province still retains the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors from winter to daily use. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into chickens, ducks, turtles, pigs, cows, sheep and other animals symbolizing good luck, and then steamed in layers in a steamer to offer sacrifices to ancestors to show that they will not forget them. Nine-layer cake is fragrant and sticky, with rich taste, bright colors and strong festive atmosphere.

Make up for winter

In Taiwan Province Province, it is also very common to "make up for winter" in the winter festival. On the day before the winter festival, after dinner, families rub circles in the hall. In ancient times, it was forbidden to say ominous words when rubbing circles. After rounding jiaozi, winter should be replenished. The rice cake is one of the tonics. Sweet rice cakes should be dried longan meat. Salted rice cakes include mutton rice cakes and red rice cakes. There are also eight treasures stewed with male muscovy ducks, cocks and turtles.

Eat zongzi; eat rice dumplings; eat glutinous rice balls

People in Taiwan Province believe that after the winter solstice, people who go out will try their best to go home to reunite with their relatives and enjoy the "Winter Festival Yuan" with their families (the "Tangyuan" in Chaoshan area in the south is also called "Winter Festival Yuan"), which is called "adding new year". Every family will gather in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and the sacrifice will be "Winter Round". It is said that doors and windows, warehouses, tables and cabinets, cowshed, pigsty, henhouse, well, toilet and other places, where people think there are gods, are affixed with one or two "winter festival circles", so that the gods can protect the peace at home.