What are the winter solstice customs in Guangzhou?

The winter solstice customs in Guangzhou include worshipping gods and ancestors, feeding rice, eating glutinous rice balls, cooking glutinous rice with bacon and so on. Kill duck and stew eight treasures.

1, eat dumplings

Eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter is a traditional custom in China, especially in Guangdong. There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls is one year older". Eating jiaozi in winter solstice is also called jiaozi, and eating jiaozi in winter solstice is also called "jiaozi in winter solstice". According to the records of Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan people used glutinous rice flour to make noodles with essence, meat, apples, bean paste, shredded radish and so on.

2. Feeding consumption

The waste recorded in ancient books is an evil ghost. Its "wherever it goes, it makes people lose all their property and the national treasury dry up." Therefore, with the spread of Zhong Kui's story in the Tang Dynasty, people have the custom of driving away the waste of taking photos (taking photos with lights), beating consumption (beating gongs and drums to scare people) and feeding consumption (giving food).

3、? Kill ducks with chicken.

People in Guangzhou celebrate the solstice of winter, and many families still keep jiaozi. Chickens kill ducks, and family members sit around and have a big meal. There are also many people in Guangzhou who choose to spend the holidays in restaurants and get together with their families, which makes restaurants large and small shocked.